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Appearing

conductor / Tatsuya SHIMONO＜Principal Guest Conductor＞

piano / Anne QUEFFÉLEC

Song List

【Single Tickets】will be on sale starting 10am on Friday, August 22／Subscriber application (annual and first half season) starts from Friday, February 7, 2025.

Harmony～Beethoven × Adams
The September Subscription program of Mo. Tatsuya Shimono, our Principal Chief Conductor shows his true skills, in Beethoven and John Adams. Both were composed in their late 30s. 　It is a program that makes you think about the influence of the era, which reflects in the sound. Ms. Anne QUEFFÉLEC has been with Sapporo Symphony Orchestra number of times, and she will bring her gentle tone. "Harmonielehre" is to be performed by Sapporo Symphony Orchestra for the first time, presents modern music methods but has a romantic sound.
【Lobby Concert】
♪Enjoy our Lobby Concert at Foyer before the main program. (Lobby concert starts 30 minutes prior to the start of the concert, and its content will be announced on our website together with ticket information a day before the concert date.)

『2025-2026 New Subscribers』～ Application to be a subscriber

In the first season with the new Chief Conductor Elias Grandy, a project with the maestro starts with Mahler and R. Strauss. There will be other large size orchestra on the stage, presenting works by John Adams, Nielsen, and Stravinsky throughout the year.

■We also accept mid-term application after the start of the season at any time.

■How to apply

『Apply via Lawson Ticket』［seat selectable］

『Apply by filling in application form』［seat non-selectable］

※Wish to know more：fill in the following format to receive more information OR call Sapporo Symphony Orchestra +81(0)11-520-1771

『2025-2026 Season』 Brochure（PDF- in Japanese）

※Appearing artists and program are subject to change.

© Shin Yamagishi

Tatsuya SHIMONO＜Principal Guest Conductor＞（conductor）

Born in Kagoshima in 1969, Tatsuya Shimono cemented his international reputation as a conductor by winning the First Prize and the Hideo Saito Award at Tokyo International Music Competition for conducting in 2000 and the First Prize at the 47th Besançon International Competition in 2001. Since then he has guest conducted major orchestras such as Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Czech Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC), Sinfonia Varsovia　and NHK Symphony Orchestra among others. Shimono served as Resident Conductor and then Principal Guest Conductor of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (2006-2017), Guest conductor and then Principal Guest Conductor of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (2014-2020), general music director of Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra (2017-2024) Shimono is currently holding the title of Music Director of Hiroshima Wind Orchestra since 2011, Permanent Conductor of NHK Symphony Orchestra since October 2023, Principal Guest Conductor of Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra since April 2024. In addition to his activity with orchestra he also regularly conducts Opera at New National Theatre Tokyo, Nissay Theatre and Nikikai Opera among others.

© Caroline Doutre

Anne QUEFFÉLEC（piano）

Born on 17 January 1948 in Paris, Anne is the daughter of Henri Queffélec, considered the great maritime novelist in France of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 80 books inspired by his native Brittany and by the sea. Her mother prepared all the manuscripts and acted as a literary agent for her husband. As Queffélec delightedly explained, growing up in the post-war era which discovered the illusory consumer society, “my parents resisted modernity, including cars, refrigerators, and television. I grew up in a prehistoric cave, but in the cave, there was a piano and books, lots of books.” According to Queffélec, her parents were extremely cultivated, generous, and humanist and instilled in her intangible moral, artistic, and spiritual values. Queffélec’s musical aptitude emerged at an early age, and she began serious piano studies at the age of five with Blanche Bascourret de Guéraldi. Guéraldi had been an assistant to Alfred Cortot, and she was passionate about culture and literature. Concurrently, she attended the Cours Hattemer, a private secular school with a flexible schedule tailored around a child’s special talents and activities. Queffélec had to make a choice between her passion for literature and music, and she entered the Paris Conservatoire to study with Lélia Gousseau in 1964. She won the premier prix for piano a year later. Queffélec continued her studies in Vienna, taking lessons with Alfred Brendel and Paul Badura-Skoda, and she won first prize in the Munich competition in 1968. One year later Queffélec was a prize-winner at the Leeds International Piano Competition and she recorded her first Scarlatti record on Erato. Queffélec credits much of her artistic success and her general attitude towards life to her mother. “My mother died when I was 22,” she explained, “but I never lost her.” Shortly before her death her mother quoted Saint Augustine “Love and do what you will,” words that became a personal mantra for Queffélec. She remembers her mother as a brilliant letter writer, and Queffélec has kept all her correspondence. “My mother was devoted to her family, was the product of her time. She anticipated feminism without the delusional and counterproductive excesses, and she did everything so that I grew up as a woman free to make my own choices.” (from https://interlude.hk/on-this-day-17-january-anne-queffelec-was-born/)