CONCERT PROGRAMME 2017/18 SEASON

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1 CONCERT PROGRAMME 2017/18 SEASON

2 Fri 25 May 2018 at 8.30 pm Sat 26 May 2018 at 3.00 pm Sun 27 May 2018 at 3.00 pm Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra Naohisa Furusawa, conductor Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur Children s Chorus PROGRAMME MIKI Anpanman Medley 10 mins Symphonic Variation Merry-Go-Round and Cave of Mind (from Howl s Moving Castle) 12 mins Kimi Wo Nosete (from Laputa) 8 mins Gake No Ue No Ponyo 4 mins INTERVAL 20 mins MIYAGAWA Orchestra Suite (from Yamato) 10 mins My Neighbour TOTORO: Orchestra Stories mins All details are correct at time of printing. Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS reserves the right to vary without notice the artists and/or repertoire as necessary. Copyright 2018 by Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS (Co. No X). All rights reserved. No part of this programme may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the copyright owners.

3 NAOHISA FURUSAWA conductor Naohisa Furusawa has been a member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) double bass section since Born in Tokyo in 1973, he started to play the violin when he was four years old and later joined his junior high school orchestra as a double bass player at age 12; his first conducting experiences were with this orchestra. Later, he studied double bass with Prof. Nobuo Shiga, and piano and conducting with Prof. Kazue Kamiya at Tokyo s Toho Gakuen School of Music. Furusawa has performed as a double bass player with the NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and several other orchestras, under the direction of many conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Lorin Maazel, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez and Valery Gergiev. In 1998, Furusawa was awarded a scholarship from the Cultural Affairs Agency of Japan to study double bass at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has conducted Beethoven s 9 th Symphony five times with Tokyo s MAX Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducted Mahler s Second Symphony with the MAX Philharmonic to commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. He has conducted many young musician ensembles including MPO s Encounter Training Ensemble and the Miri Tutti Project in East Malaysia as part of the MPO s Education and Outreach Programme. PROGRAMME NOTES The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra presentations of A Musical Journey In Anime in 2016 was a great hit among music lovers. Today s concert features the most popular works from three iconic Japanese anime composers; Takashi Miki, Joe Hisaishi and Hiroshi Miyagawa. discogs.com Takashi Miki, whose real name was Tadashi Watanabe, was born in Tokyo in He aspired to be a singer after his high school graduation but taught himself to compose music instead. He made his professional debut in 1967 and wrote the theme song for the anime film Jakku to Mame no Ki (Jack and the Beanstalk) in Miki also composed the Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu theme song for The Adventures of the Little Prince anime series in One of his most famous songs is the Dreaming duo s theme for the Anpanman s 1988 television premiere. Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi, was born in 1950 in Nakano. Known for his musical versatility that fuses Japanese and Western classical idioms, and minimalist and experimental electronic styles, he made a name in the world of post-modern music and minimalist arts in the late 1970s. His first major album MKWAJU was released in Hisaishi has composed over a hundred movie scores including popular collaborations with Studio Ghibli films directed by the renowned Hayao Miyazaki. Their first collaboration was in 1984 with the anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. imgur.com Hiroshi Miyagawa was born in 1931 in Hokkaido. He was educated at the Kyoto Art and the Osaka Universities. In the 1960s, he began to arrange and compose music for radio and television and eventually went on to score over twenty motion pictures which won several awards. myanimelist.net His well-known compositions are Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, Kureji ogon sakusen, Yakusoku, Grand Prix Hawk, Maaterlinck s Bluebird and Space Battleship Yamato.

4 Takashi Miki is most remembered for the insanely catchy Anpanman no March, the theme song for Soreike! Anpanman television series that was launched in It remains the theme song for the franchise three decades later. news.qoo-app.com Anpanman is a Japanese picture book series written by Takashi Yanase which ran from 1973 till The series was adapted into one of the most popular Japanese anime for young children entitled Soreike! Anpanman (Let s Go! Anpanman). It follows the adventures of Anpanman, a superhero with an anpan (a beanjam filled pastry) for a head, who protects the world from an evil anthropomorphic germ called Baikinman. The orchestral suite expounds Miki s catchy music in an Anpanman Medley of true symphonic splendour. Symphonic Variation Merry-Go- Round and Cave of Mind (Howl s Moving Castle) was arranged by Joe Hisaishi as a concert version of his original score for the 2004 fantasy film Howl s Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The story is set in a fictional kingdom where magic and 20th century technology are prevalent, against a war backdrop. The film tells of a young hatter named Sophie after she is turned into an old woman by a witch s curse. She encounters a wizard named Howl, and gets caught studioghiblimovies.com up in his resistance to fighting for the king. The Symphonic Variation Merry-Go-Round takes the form of a melodious slow waltz in triple time. Cave of Mind is similarly soulful which later reminisces back to the lovely slow waltz of the previous piece. flickr.com lord-phillock.deviantart.com news.qoo-app.com Kimi Wo Nosete (Carrying You) (from Laputa: Castle In The Sky) is a 1986 Japanese animated adventure film also written and directed by Miyazaki. This first film animated by Studio Ghibli follows the adventures of a young boy and girl attempting to keep a magic crystal from a group of militia while searching for a legendary floating castle. Following a grandiose brass fanfare, Hisaishi s relentless song begins and remains in the minor mode mostly but ends triumphantly in the tonic major. Gake No Ue No Ponyo (from Ponyo on the Cliff) is the theme song to the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo, released in The lively and cheerful song has an elegant simplicity and was written in collaboration with Hisaishi, with lyrics by the film s supervisor Katsuya Kondō and director Miyazaki. Hiroshi Miyagawa s tonal music for Space Battleship Yamato is dominated by a lovely melodic main theme in a doleful minor key, which contrasts with themes for other characters that comprise pop and jazz styles, all of which capture an evocative musical texture which contributes greatly to the film s ambience. The triumphant and grand ending utilizes a powerful Western Tierce de Picardie compositional technique in the exultant major key.

5 MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Hisaishi s collaboration with Miyazaki in the multiple award-winning fantasy anime My Neighbour TOTORO (1988) was declared number 41 in Empire magazine s 100 Best Films Of World Cinema in This beguiling adventure between two sisters and a magical creature, TOTORO, is beautifully narrated by the multi-part Orchestra Stories of upbeat music style, comprising eight separate character pieces namely Stroll, The Village in May, Travelling Soot - Mother, It Was TOTORO!, The Path of the Wind, A Lost Child, Catbus and My Neighbour TOTORO. Concert Notes by Daniel Lee premiere.fr fareastfilm.com RESIDENT CONDUCTOR Naohisa Furusawa FIRST VIOLIN Co-Concertmaster Peter Daniš Ming Goh s Zhenzhen Liang *Barbora Kolářová Runa Baagöe Maho Daniš Miroslav Daniš Evgeny Kaplan Martijn Noomen Sherwin Thia Marcel Andriesii Tan Ka Ming Petia Atanasova SECOND VIOLIN Timothy Peters Assistant Luisa Hyams Catalina Alvarez Chia-Nan Hung Anastasia Kiseleva Stefan Kocsis Ling Yunzhi Ionuț Mazareanu Yanbo Zhao Ai Jin Robert Kopelman VIOLA Gábor Mokány Ong Lin Kern Sun Yuan Thian Ai Wen Fan Ran Emil Csonka *Hsiao Chia-Chien *Javier Lopez Calvo CELLO Csaba Körös Assistant Steven Retallick Sub- Mátyás Major Gerald Davis Julie Dessureault Laurențiu Gherman Elizabeth Tan Suyin Sejla Simon DOUBLE BASS Wolfgang Steike Raffael Bietenhader Jun-Hee Chae Naohisa Furusawa John Kennedy Andreas Dehner FLUTE *Catherine Gregory Yukako Yamamoto Sub- Rachel Jenkyns PICCOLO Sonia Croucher OBOE Simon Emes *Bernice Lee Wen Ting Sub- Niels Dittmann CLARINET Gonzalo Esteban David Dias da Silva Sub- Matthew Larsen BASS CLARINET Chris Bosco BASSOON Alexandar Lenkov *Liu Chang Sub- Denis Plangger CONTRABASSOON Vladimir Stoyanov HORN s Grzegorz Curyla *Albert Galka James Schumacher Sub-s Laurence Davies Barkin Sönmezer Assistant Sim Chee Ghee TRUMPET *Matthew Baker William Theis Sub- Jeffrey Missal Assistant *Matthew Dempsey TROMBONE *Andrzej Tkaczyk Fernando Borja BASS TROMBONE *Gabriel Roberson TUBA *Hidehiro Fujita TIMPANI Matthew Thomas PERCUSSION Matthew Prendergast Sub-s Joshua Vonderheide *Kyle Ritenauer *Tan Su Yin HARP Tan Keng Hong PIANO Akiko Daniš Note: Sectional string players are rotated within their sections. *Extra musician.

6 JAPANESE SCHOOL OF KUALA LUMPUR CHILDREN'S CHORUS Saito Momoko Ishii Yuma Minakuchi Rei Uraki Haruna Tokumura Kahori Hosotani Tamaki Minagawa Kokona Yoshida Sayuki Tsunekage Akira Tanaka Mayu Matsuyama Ayaka Motohashi Marin Ishibashi Mahiro Kondo Hatsume Nakanishi Koyuki Yoshida Chisato CORPORATE SUITE PREMIUM MEMBERS CORPORATE SUITE CLUB MEMBERS DEWAN FILHARMONIK PETRONAS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Nor Raina Yeong Abdullah BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Wan Yuzaini Wan Yahya At Ziafrizani Chek Pa Nurartikah Ilyas Kartini Ratna Sari Ahmat Adam Aishah Sarah Ismail Affendee MARKETING Yazmin Lim Abdullah Hisham Abdul Jalil Munshi Ariff Abu Hassan Farah Diyana Ismail Noor Sarul Intan Salim Muhammad Shahrir Aizat Ahmad Kusolehin Adha Kamaruddin CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT Yayuk Yulianawati Rila Jalwati Mohd Noor MUSIC TALENT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT Soraya Mansor PLANNING, FINANCE & IT Mohd Hakimi Mohd Rosli Norhisham Abd Rahman Siti Nur Ilyani Ahmad Fadzillah Nurfharah Farhana Hashimi PROCUREMENT & CONTRACT Logiswary Raman Norhaszilawati Zainudin HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION Sharhida Saad Muknoazlida Mukhadzim Nor Afidah Nordin Nik Nurul Nadia Nik Abdullah TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Firoz Khan Mohd Zamir Mohd Isa Shahrul Rizal Mohd Ali Dayan Erwan Maharal Zolkarnain Sarman MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Nor Raina Yeong Abdullah GENERAL MANAGER Khor Chin Yang Soraya Mansor GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE Timmy Ong ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION/ ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT/ MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA Ahmad Muriz Che Rose Sharon Francis Lihan Fadilah Kamal Francis Shireen Jasin Mokhtar Katherine Tan Jia Yiing MUSIC LIBRARY Ong Li-Huey Wong Seong Seong Muhamad Zaid Azzim Mohd Diah EDUCATION & OUTREACH Shafrin Sabri Shireen Jasin Mokhtar DEWAN FILHARMONIK PETRONAS X MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA H

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