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Appearing

conductor / Nodoka OKISAWA

violin / Lina NAKANO

Song List

【Single Tickets】to be on sale starting 10am on Thursday, April 30 (Sakkyo members from 10am on Saturday, April 18)

This is a concert series taking place in hitaru, weekday evenings. Please attend our preconcert talk session starting from 6:45 at the theater.

【A set of Four Tickets】will be on sale starting 10am on Saturday, February 14, 2026. (Sakkyo members from 10am, Friday, January 30)

『2026-2027 hitaru Series- A set of four tickets』

You can enjoy our concert at the same seat for all four hitaru concerts.

※A set ticket price：S 20,800 yen, A 16,000 yen, B 11,200 yen, U25 Discount (A,B) 3,200 yen

※Sale starts：10 am on February 14, 2026 【Sakkyo members from Jan. 30】

※For fiscal 2026, U25 is for those who born in 2001 or younger.

※Ticket Box：Doshin Playguide（telephone・at shop・Web）, Citizen Community Plaza Ticket Center (shop), Seicomart＜Secomacode D26043003>, Kitara Ticket Center(A set ticket can be purchased from web only)

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Nodoka OKISAWA（conductor）

Nodoka Okisawa has been Chief Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra since 2023, and her contract has now been extended a further three years until March 2029. In February 2024 she was also named as the first ever Principal Guest Conductor of the Matsumoto Festival by its’ founder, Seiji Ozawa. She is also General and Artistic Director of Aoiumi to mori Music Festival.
Upcoming debuts include The London Philharmonic, The Halle, Dortmund Philharmonic, Latvian National Symphony and The Boston Symphony Orchestras. She will also enjoy returns to Extremadura Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony and Melbourne Symphony. Upon returning to Australia she will also work with Tasmania Symphony and will go to New Zealand for the first time to work with the Auckland Philharmonia.
Other notable recent debuts include successes with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She also returned to Münchner Symphoniker, having been Artist in Residence during the 2022/23 season.
Much in demand in Japan, Nodoka Okisawa enjoys working regularly with such orchestras as Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Toyko Metropolitan Symphony, NHK Symphony, Japan Philharmonic and in February 2025 she conducted a full run of Bizet’s Carmen at Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation. She had previously worked at this house on Lehár's The Merry Widow. Her first encounter with the Saito Kinen Orchestra was at the 2022 Matsumoto festival, where she conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in a production by Laurent Pelly and at the 2025 Festival she conducted Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Nodoka Okisawa is the winner of the prestigious Concours international de jeunes chefs d'orchestre de Besançon 2019, where she was awarded the ‘Grand Prix’, the Orchestra Prize and the Audience Prize. Furthermore, in 2018, she won the Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting, one of the most important international conducting competitions.
From 2020 to 2022, Nodoka Okisawa held a scholarship at the Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker and was also assistant to Kirill Petrenko. In addition to her own concert projects together with the academy members of the Berliner Philharmoniker, she also conducted the Solidarity Concert for Ukraine in March 2022 with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker at the invitation of the Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Another highlight was the joint anniversary concert with Kirill Petrenko to mark the 50th anniversary of the Karajan-Akademie in May 2022.
Okisawa has attended masterclasses with Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, and Kurt Masur. In 2019, she was selected for the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo. She gained further experience in the past as assistant conductor of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, as well as with opera productions in Japan and Europe.

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Lina NAKANO（violin）

Winner of the 90th Japan Music Competition in 2021 and in 2022, at the 8th Sendai International Music Competition, she won the first prize at the age of 17, the youngest person in history, and won the Audience Award, attracting much attention. Since then, she has begun full-fledged performance activities such as performances and recitals with major orchestras in Japan, and is currently highly regarded as a young violinist with the most promising future.
Born in 2004, she started playing the violin at the age of 3 and studied with Chihiro Morikawa at a music class for children attached to the Faculty of Music at Toho Gakuen University. After graduating from the music department of Toho Girls' High School, she is currently a special student at Toho Gakuen University's "Soloist Diploma Course" and studied under Akiko Tatsumi. She also studied at the Vienna City University of the Arts under Calvay Daribor, and ROHM Music Foundation 2023 and 2024 scholarship recipients.
She has performed with the Yomiuri Japan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Soloist, and many others. She released an album containing Poulenc, R. Strauss's sonatas from Fontec label.
Instrument used: Antonio Stradivarius (Lyal) made in 1702 (loaned from ITOH)