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Appearing

conductor / Keitaro HARADA

violin / Teiko MAEHASHI*

Song List

【Single Tickets】General Sales start from 10am on Saturday, May 23 (Sakkyo members from 10am on Thursday, May 21)

This is a series of concerts starting 2pm in Kitara. Enjoy preconcert talk starting 1:45pm.

【A set of Four Tickets】General Sale starting 10am on Saturday, February 14 (Sakkyo members starting 10am on Friday, January 30).

『2026-2027 Masterpiece Concerts- A set of four tickets』

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

※A set ticket price：SS 17,600 yen, S 14,400 yen, A 9,600 yen, U25 discount (A) 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（at shop）、Kitara Ticket Center（telephone・ at shop ・Web）, Seicomart＜Secomacode D26052302＞

© MASATOSHI YAMASHIRO

Keitaro HARADA（conductor）

A promising talent who continues to play an outstanding role mainly in Europe and the United States and currently holds a position of Permanent conductor at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. After serving as an associate conductor with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Arizona Opera, and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, he became the music and artistic director of the Savannah Philharmonic in Georgia, USA, from the 2020 season and in April 2024, he became the principal guest conductor and artistic partner of the Aichi Chamber Orchestra. As an opera conductor, he has also performed in Arizona, North Carolina, Cincinnati, and the Bulgarian National Opera. He won the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Award at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2010, the B. Walter Conductor Preview Award in 2013, the Solti Foundation Career Support Award six times, and in 2023, he became the first Japanese to receive the Top Conductor Award. In 2009, he participated in the Castleton Festival at the invitation of L. Maazel. Born in Tokyo in 1985, Harada studied conducting under F. Fennel. He received the 29th Akio Watanabe Music Foundation Music Award and the 20th Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award. On May 31, 2024, it was announced simultaneously in Japan and the United States that he will become music and artistic director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra in Ohio, USA, from July 2025. With two titles in Japan and two titles in the United States, Harada is now about to embark on a new journey. kharada.com/ @KHconductor

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Teiko MAEHASHI*（violin）

As an international violinist representing Japan, she continues to captivate many audiences with her performances full of elegance and maturity. From the age of 5, she studied violin under Anna Ono, and then studied in music classes for children at Toho Gakuen and Toho Gakuen High School with Hideo Saito and Jeanne Isnard. At the age of 17, she was selected as the first student from Japan to study at the Leningrad State Conservatory of the former Soviet Union (now the St. Petersburg Conservatory) and studied under Mikhail Vaiman. She later studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Robert Mann and Dorothy Delay, and in Switzerland with Joseph Sigeti and Nathan Milstein. She has performed with prominent orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de France, as well as artists who are active on the forefront of the world, such as Mehta, Rostropovich, and Seiji Ozawa. In recent years, she has been appearing in recitals all over Japan with a friendly program centered on small pieces. At the same time, she is also enthusiastically working on J.S. Bach's "Sonata and Partita for Unaccompanied Violin", Beethoven's "Violin Sonata", and Brahms' "Violin Sonata." In addition, as the latest recording, a CD of Beethoven's "Complete Violin Sonatas" is released by Sony Music in February 2025. Her book "My Violin: Memoirs of Teiko Maehashi" has been published by Hayakawa Shobo, and her latest book, "The Fifth Movement of a Violinist," has been published by Japan Keizai Shimbun Publishing. She has won the Japan Academy of Arts Award and the 37th ExxonMobil (now ENEOS Music Award) Music Award in the Western Music Category. He received the Purple Ribbon Medal and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. The instrument used is the Guarneri del Gesù (Del Jes Guarnerius), made in 1736.