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conductor / Ken TAKASEKI

Song List

【Single Tickets】General Sales start 10am on Saturday, November 21 (Sakkyo members 10am on Thursday, November 19)

This concert series start 2pm at Kitara. Enjoy preconcert talk start 1:45pm.

【A set of Four tickets】General Sale starts 10am on Saturday, February 10 (Sakkyo members 10 am 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＞

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Ken TAKASEKI（conductor）

Ken Takaseki made many guest performances both in Japan and overseas, and was acclaimed by audiences and musicians alike for his conducting of subscription concerts by the St.Petersburg Philharmonic in 2013 and 2017. He has earned the profound trust of artists. At the Pierre Boulez Kyoto Prize Workshop in 2009, for example, he received high praise from Pierre Boulez and such world-renowned soloists as Mischa Maisky, Itzhak Perlman, Gidon Kremer, Mikhail Pletnev and in particular Martha Argerich, for his performances over the course of three concerts including the Japan premiere of a work by Rondion Schedrin. In March 2019, he conducted Dan Ikuma’s opera “Yuzuru” at Vladivostok and St. Petersburg, and in April 2021, he conducted the New National Theatre,Tokyo Opera production, Stravinsky’s “Le Rossignol” and Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta”.
Held important positions in major orchestras, and currently Principal Conductor of the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Mt.Fuji Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the Karajan Competition in Japan in 1977, the Hans Swarowsky Competition in 1984, Akeo Watanabe Foundation Music Award in 1996, Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award in 2011 and Suntory Music Award in 2018.