The series of birthday concerts will kick off in Tokyo on 4 October with the Japanese premieres of the ensemble piece Flood and of Regentanz for six percussionists at Kunitachi College of Music.
Further country premieres will follow on 9 October: the children's choir The Little Singers of Tokyo will perform three vocal works.
On 12 October, chamber music works by Toshio Hosokawa will be performed by the Takefu Ensemble at the Goethe Institute in Tokyo.
The Swiss Mondrian Ensemble will perform the trio piece Memory on 13 October at the MusicOlomouc Festival in Czechia. The festival will also present the Czech premiere of the orchestra piece UZU with the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra on 13 November.
Oreksis for piano and string quartet will be played on 15 October by the Yomikyo Ensemble and Tomoki Kitamura on piano at Toppan Hall in Tokyo.
On 24 October, the chamber orchestra work In the Forest will also be performed for the first time in Japan by the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christian Arming in Toshio Hosokawa's hometown of Hiroshima.
On 26 and 27 October, the Stuttgart State Opera will present the orchestral suite Erdbeben. Träume (Earthquakes. Dreams), conducted by Sylvain Cambreling, based on his opera of the same name, which premiered in Stuttgart in 2018.
We warmly congratulate Toshio Hosokawa and are delighted to have been able to accompany his career for many years. His compositions have long been established in the repertoire of European concert halls and opera houses, and are now also being performed more and more frequently in Japan – the most recent example being the highly acclaimed premiere of his opera Natasha in August at the New National Theatre in Tokyo.