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2025
4/24 19:00~

Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21 2025.April.24(Thu)19:00~ Sapporo Cultural Arts Theater hitaru

Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21
Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21
Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21
Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21
Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21
Subscription hitaru Concert Series No.21

Appearing

conductor / Elias GRANDY<Chief Conductor, from April 2025>

piano / Kazune SHIMIZU

Song List

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15
Dai FUJIKURA Entwine
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92

【Single Tickets/A set of Four Tickets】Sale starts from 10am on Saturday, February 15, 2025 (Sakkyo members from 10am on Wednesday, February 5)

This is a series of concerts held at hitaru in evening of weekdays. There is also a pre-concert talk starting from 6:45pm.

エリアス・グランディ<札響首席指揮者 2025/4~> © Y.Fujii

Elias GRANDY<Chief Conductor, from April 2025>(conductor)

Elias Grandy’s international profile is rapidly rising by conducting first-class orchestras and opera productions in Europe, America and Asia. Hailed by the press as “passionate and full of temperament”, “vigorous and equally precise” and praised for his ability to “grasp psychological subtleties under a microscope”, the German-Japanese conductor gave recently highly successful debuts with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic and Minnesota Orchestra. In 23/24 the energetic, charismatic conductor will return to Frankfurt Radio Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Germany and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Tokyo and give debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken. Furthermore, he will take the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz on a tour to Poland as their “conductor in residence” for 23/24 and appear frequently with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he enjoys a close relationship for many years. Elias is equally devoted as an opera conductor, feeling passionately about theatre and musically shaping the narrative of each drama. In recent years he has conducted highly acclaimed productions of Elektra and Carmen at Minnesota Opera, Werther and A Village Romeo and Juliet at Frankfurt Opera, Un ballo in maschera at Aalto-Theatre Essen, Carmen at Opera Nikikai Tokyo and Rusalka at Portland Opera. Future engagements include the Semperoper Dresden and reinvitations to Frankfurt Opera and Opera Nikikai Tokyo. Last season he finished his tenure as music director of Heidelberg’s Opera and Philharmonic orchestra where he significantly raised the caliber of both, providing thoughtful, innovative programming and burnishing the city’s fast-growing reputation as a vital musical hub. Enthusiastic about making music more accessible, he introduced several highly popular concert formats for young people and an educated audience. His final season programme included Prokofjev’s Love for Three Oranges, Bruckner’s Symphony No.7 and a series of unknown works by female composers. Born of German-Japanese parents Elias studied cello and conducting in Munich, Basel, and Berlin. He worked as a cellist in orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Komische Oper Berlin. He started his conducting career as Resident Conductor at Staatstheater Darmstadt and shortly after won the prestigious Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition. In 2015 he was named music director in Heidelberg, a position he held until 2023. Grandy was a member of the Orchestra Academy (cello) in 2004, and of the Conducting Academy in 2012. In 2024 he makes his return to PMF as Guest Conductor.


清水 和音 © Yuji Hori

Kazune SHIMIZU(piano)

Shimizu took first prize of the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition and also a recital prize in 1981. In 1986 he performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky, for his London debut. From 1995 to 1997, Shimizu performed all Beethoven piano sonatas in Tokyo. These concerts were recorded and released as a complete set under the Sony Classical label. From 2004, he started to record the complete Chopin piano works, and 5CDs from Octavia Records have been released. Shimizu performed with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Tokyo (NHK Symphony Orchestra) and Sydney (Sydney Symphony Orchestra). He has performed with many of the world’s orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Chezh Philharmonic Orchestra and Mariinsky Orchestra, and has performed with conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gianandrea Noseda, Zdeněk Mácal, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Valery Gergiev. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut, Shimizu performed his beloved Rachmaninov piano concertos 1-4, and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, in a single concert in August 2011. This amazing achievement proved that he continues to be a leading pianist on the world stage. He is currently a professor at the Toho College of Music.

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Ticket Information

Ticket Sale From Saturday, February 15, 2025  Member Precedent Release : Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Ticket (S)¥6,500 (A)¥5,000 (B)¥3,500 U25 (A,B) 1,000 yen
【On the concert day S~B each plus 500 yen(except for U25)】
※U25 for the fiscal 2025 is for those who born on year 2000 or younger
※Premium Seat 8,000 yen(with a gift/from Lawson Tickets only)
※Smile Seats 2,000 yen(maybe with poor view/limited sale on the day of the concert)
※Lucky with Lawticket!? 2,000 yen(poor view or else?/sale from noon on the day of the concert) ※Preschoolers cannot attend this concert.
※Sakkyo members can purchase with 500 yen discount for S and A tickets.
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※There will be no sale of single tickets at Kitara Ticket Center.
※Seats can be selected at Lawson Ticket only from one day after, from the midnight of the ticket sale starting date.
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※Program may change. There will be no refund of tickets unless cancelled by force majeures.
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