Tokyo Bunka Kaikan & Chelsea Music Festival Collaborative Concerts
This season from September 8-10, 2023, one of Japan’s most celebrated performing arts institutions, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, has invited two Chelsea Music Festival musicians to perform in three concerts. The Festival is pleased to send Max Tan (Violin) and Robert Fleitz (Piano) who will be featured in three concerts.
They will be joined on stage by two Tokyo Music Competition prizewinners, István Kohán (Clarinet) and Tatsuki Sasanuma (Cello, 2019 Festival).
More About Our Partnership—
Over the past several years, the Festival has engaged in an artistic partnership with one of Japan’s most celebrated performing arts institutions, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. As a result, Chelsea Music Festival audiences have had the privilege to witness the artistry of Japan’s foremost young talents who made their US debuts at the Festival both in 2019 as well as this past season in 2023.
Since 2017, successful collaborations between Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and conductor and Festival Co-Artistic Director Ken-David Masur have featured the Bunka Kaikan Chamber ochestra and world premiere performances of symphonic and opera works such as the chamber opera performance of “Four Nights of Dream,” conducted by Ken-David Masur in 2017 as an international co-production of the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan & the Japan Society.
In 2019, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan sent four string musicians and Tokyo Music Competition prizewinners to participate in the Chelsea Music Festival in New York City: Tatsuki Sasanuma (Cello), Ryosuke Suho (Violin), Maiko Takimoto (Viola), & Natsumi Tsuboi (Violin).
In 2023, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan sent Ayako Tahara (Viola) and Tomotaka Seki (Violin) to perform at the Festival’s 14th season.
