KLASSIK Underground in Tokyo
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Akiko Nakayama
A new cooperation between the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (GHO) commences from Season 2017/18. The first collaboration of musicians from both of these great orchestras is a mini sensation. On November 10th, this first Klassik Underground session to take place outside of Europe brings musicians from Boston and Leipzig together with the Japanese artist Akiko Nakayama. Following highly successful Klassik Underground shows in the Moritzbastei club Leipzig where stars of the classical world including Anne-Sophie Mutter and Joshua Bell have appeared, Klassik Underground comes to Tokyo, fusing classical music with contemporary urban nightlife. The artistic collaboration with Akiko Nakayama, well-known for her “Alive Painting” promises an entirely new and unique 21st century concert experience.
Works to be performed:
Shostakovich, String Quartet Nr. 9 op. 117
Beethoven, Sextet for 2 horns and String Quartet op. 81b
Musicians:
Elita Kang (BSO) violin
Camille Gouton (GHO) violin
Tahlia Petrosian (GHO) viola
Gayane Khachatryan (GHO) cello
James Sommerville (BSO) horn
Andreas Pöche (GHO) horn
Alive painting: Akiko Nakayama
Artist information:
Akiko Nakayama
Visual artist Akiko Nakayama creates installations, live performance and photographic works dealing with energy cycles, movement and colors. Employing a wide range of techniques, her unique approach to live painting results in melting landscapes, kaleidoscopic patterns and surreal and saturated vistas. Working in collaboration with some of Japan’s most distinctive improvising artists, including Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata and Hiromichi Sakamoto, she pursues what she titles ‘alive painting’, in which she aims to find the ‘existence of life’ in the act of creating out of nothingness.
Akiko Nakayama official site
From Roppongi station, walk left up Roppongi Dori towards Roppongi Hills/Shibuya. After you pass Roppongi Hills, and cross TV Asahi Dori, you'll see Super Deluxe on the left.