World famous designer and fashion designer Junko Koshino, who is also a Senior Advisor of Expo 2025 Osaka and was one of the first Japanese figures to have accepted the role, is part of the team of 'Ambassadors' of the Italy Pavilion along with the industr. (ANSA)
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This May, the IlluminArt Philharmonic Orchestra will embark on a four-concert tour of Japan, performing in Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya and Yokohama. The orchestra will be led primarily by its Artistic Director, Tomomi Nishimoto, for a program of music featuring works by Debussy, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, Adjemian, Khachaturian, Mirzoyan and contemporary composer Alexey Shor. The IlluminArt Philharmonic will be joined by guest conductor Toshio Yanagisawa, as well as five noted soloists including celebrated Japanese pianist, Yoshihiro Kondo, (prize winner in the 1987 Japan Piano Competition) and Daiki Kato (recent top prize winner at the 17th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition), award-winning violinists Tomoko Kato and Asa Nakajima and internationally acclaimed cellist, Nobuo Furukawa. The tour is organized by
Since his relatively late emergence onto the scene, New York-based composer Alexey Shor has rapidly built a popular and appreciative following for his style of composition that, while a product of the 21st century, closely follows in the footsteps of the great composers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Since his entry to the concert hall, Shor has enjoyed a busy and productive schedule, his works being performed in prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Kennedy Center, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and the Mariinsky Theatre amongst many others. Shor’s music has been performed various times in Japan since 2017, most recently including at the Japan Piano Open and the ‘Japan Grande Classico’ Music Festival in October 2019.