Mo. Hubert Souda, who was to join our Masterpiece Concert scheduled for September 12 is unable to attend the concert due to the immigration limitation to Japan from abraoad.
Mo. Kentaro Kawase will be with us for this concert. There will be no change in the program or the scheduled hour. We thank you for your understandings.

Kentaro Kawase（Conductor）
Kentaro Kawase was born in Tokyo in 1984, and graduated from the Tokyo College of Music in 2007 with a major in conducting. His conducting teachers included Jun’ichi Hirokami, Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Myung-Whun Chung, and Arild Remmereit. He also studied piano and score reading under Reiko Shimada. He appeared in the Rainbow 21 Debut Concert 2005 at Suntory Hall, and conducted the Ensemble Endless, the Tokyo College of Music String Ensemble. In 2006, he participated in the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra Academy Conducting Workshop. He was second prize winner (no first prize was awarded) in the Tokyo International Music Competition for conducting in 2006. Currently Kawase is the conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Standing Conductor of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Directorof Hachioji Youth Orchestra. He won “Watanabe Akio Music Foundation” award in 2015, and received the 65th Yokohama Culture Award Culture and Art Encouragement Award. He is also the winner of the 14th Hideo Saito Memorial Foundation Award, and the 26th Idemitsu Music Award. From September 2018, he is Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa.