schedule
renewed: 26 oct 2009

<Winterreise> sung in Japanese
31 dec 19.30  theatre iwato
4,000 yen(100seats only)

singer: Saitô Haruhiko, piano: Takahashi Yûji
plus poetry reading Yamada Fûtarô (by Saitô haruhiko)
with Schubert: Moments Musicaux I-IV
New Year's Eve party after the concert (donation)
 
reserv.:  info@suigyu.com

Nosaka Sôju 25-string Koto Recital
17 dec 19.00 5,000 yen / 4,000yen

program incl.
Takahashi Yûji:
While crossing the bridge  (1996)
                            Ariake (2009 première)

Higo Mikiko Recital
13 dec(sun) 19.00
Ôji Hall, Ginza 5,000 yen
Higo Mikiko (soprano) Takahashi Yûji (piano)

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Schumann: Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
Takahashi Yûji: Kiku 2009, Darumasan Senjimon etc.

Tochio Katsuki Recital
10 nov (tue) 19.00
Hama-rikyû Asahi Hall, Tokyo 3,500 yen
17 nov (yue) 19.00 Aiphonic Hall, Itami 072-780-2110 adv. 3,000, door 3,500 student adv 2,000, door 2,500 yen
Tochio Katsuki (Bar. Sax )Takahashi Yūji (piano)

Paul Bonneau: Caprice en forme de valse
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalyse Op 34-14
Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de habanera
Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonate op. 168
Takahashi Yūji: Embers for solo sax (première)
César Franck: Sonate

Meet Japanese Contemporary Composer 04
Music of Yuji Takahashi
14 nov (sat) 17.30-20.30 Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Yuji Takahashi (piano) Yoko Nishi (koto) Kaori Osuga (piano)

Yuji Takahashi: Kwang-ju, may 1980 (1980) piano, slides
                          Japanese Foam -Nest Tree Frog (2000) koto/voive
Yu Kuwabara:   Japanese Foam-Nest Tree Frog (2009) koto/voice
Yuji Takahashi: kerokero kororo (2004) piano, slides
                           bachiana afroasiatica (piano)
                           shika (no uta ...... (2008) koto/voice


Tessera Autumn Festival  3rd day
Takahashi Yūji Piano Solo - A Desert March
3 nov (tue)  16.00  Salon Tessera, Sangenjaya   5,000 yen

Bartók Béla: 10 Easy Pieces BB51
Bernard van Dieren:  Piccolo Pralinudettino Fridato (1934)
Takahashi Yūji: Planet on the Table (revised)
Gyula Csapó: A Desert March (1991-1993)etc.

A Desert March is a protest march and a requiem for European musical culture  with distorted quotations of Beethoven's Ode to Joy (now the hymn of the European Union) and the United States national anthem, as well as Brahms, Schubert, Beethoven, Bartók, Janáček.
13th Day Moon at Salon Hashimaya, Kurashiki, Okayama
30 oct (fri) 14.00,19.00 3,500 yen

Kinoshita Taka-atsu (guitarra, charango, voz) Takahashi Yûji (piano)

program incl.
Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata
Debussy: Clair de la lune
Tchaikovsky: Song of Autumn
Mi pudra lleva mi color                etc.

info.086-422-2564

Hatano Mutsumi: Yume no Yoru
Songs by Satie, Mompou, Eisler and Takahashi Yûji
28 oct. (wed) 19.00 Ôji Hall, Ginza 5,000 yen
Hatano Mutsumi
mezzo-soprano Takahashi Yûji piano

Lili Boulanger    Le retour
Kurt Weill    Youkali-tango
Hans Eisler        Legende von der Entstehung des buch Tao Te King
                           auf dem Weg des Laotse in die Emigration

Takahashi Yûji    Yume no Yoru etc. 

[info] 03-3567-9990 http://www.ojihall.jp


Je te veux - Hatano Mutsumi mezzo-soprano Takahashi Yûji piano
28 nov. (sat) 17.00 Arkas Sasebo, Nagasaki Pref. 3,500 yen student 1,500 yen
24 oct. (sat) 15.00 Art Hall Hyogo Pref.  A 4,000 yen B 3,000 yen

Satie            Je te veux / Gymnopédie
Poulenc       Priez pour la paix
Mompou      Cantar del Alma
Takahashi     Oyasumi nasai       etc.

[info] 0798-68-0255 http://www.geenter-hyogo.jp
         0956-42-1111
info@arkas.or.jp

Kawai Takuji plays Takahashi Yūji
14 oct (wed) 19.30 Kōendori-classics, shibuya, Tokyo adv. 2,500 door 2,800 w. 1 drink

Takahashi: nabikafi (2007)
                    Piano 4 (2002)
                    For Thomas Schultz (2001)
                    Mulle Taryeong (1978)
                    Maeander (1972)

                  piano: Kawai Takuji      htpp://www.sepia.dti.ne.jp/kawai/

Yume no Yoru - Hatano Mutsumi mezzo-soprano Takahashi Yûji piano
12 oct. (mon) 14.00 iichiko Cultural Center, Oita reserv. 4,000 yen, non-r. 3,000 yen  minor 1,500 yen (http://www.emo.or.jp/index.html)

Satie            Je te veux / Gymnopédie
Weill           Youkali-tango
Poulenc        Priez pour la paix
Mompou      Combat del Somni
Takahashi    Oyasumi nasai       etc.


[info]090-1345-7528

Träumerei - Children's Scenes, 2008
based on a play by Kisaragi Koharu (1984)
3 oct (sat) 18.00 4 oct (sun) 14.00 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Takahashi Yûji: script, music, piano
Ayuo: voice, guitar
Endô Ryôko: Saki
Suzuki Kôsuke: Kai
Kajiya Kazuyuki: human beings

white light unspeakable distress
a boy with empty heart a girl pulling him back to life tied with vanishing gossamer
a nocturnal voyage after the shadow of Kisaragi Koharu who has disapperead from this world  by reconstructing the texture from fragmented words with sound and silence

[info] 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art 076-220-2800
Breath Passage 2009 - Kang Tae-Huan Japan Tour
19 sept (sat) Alley Hall, Shimokitazawa   Kang Tae-Huan sax, Takahashi Yûji piano, Saga Yuki vocals
21 sept (mon) Sakura-za, Kôfu   Kang Tae-Huan, Takahashi Yûji, Tanaka Min dance
22 sept (tue) Shunju-za, Kyoto University of Art and Design    Kang Tae-Huan, Takahashi Yûji, Tanaka Min, Ôtomo Yoshihide guitar
23 sept (wed) Guggenheim House, Kobe    Kang Tae-Huan, Takahashi Yûji, Tanaka Min, Ôtomo Yoshihide
24 sept (thur) Za Koenji 2, Tokyo    Kang Tae-Huan, Takahashi Yûji, Tanaka Min, Ôtomo Yoshihide
25 sept (fri) Art Village, Kanazawa    Kang Tae-Huan, Tanaka Min, Ôtomo Yoshihide, Saitô Tetsu bass
26 sept (sat) Matsumoto Seicho Museum, Kita-Kyushu    Kang Tae-Huan, Takahashi Yûji, Tanaka Min, Ôtomo Yoshihide, Saitô Tetsu

Oriental Hotel Hiroshima Chapel Concert 
15 sept (tue)  19.00 Shiraishi kazuko poetry reading with Oki Itaru trumpet  Ino Nobuyoshi bass and Takahashi Yûji piano  
Music of Peru for piano and guitar - from traditional to classical
5 sept (sat) 19.30 Kôen-dôri Classics, Shibuya
13 sept (sun) 18.30 Rekishi Bunka Denshôkan Hall, Chichibu

guitar: Sasakubo Shin
piano: Takahashi Yûji

works by Theodoro Valcárcel, Rodolfo Holtzmann and others

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial Tomiyama Taeko Exhibition
Hiruko and Puppeteers
(first showing) + Concert
8 aug (sat) 19.00-20.00 Kiyotsu-kyo primary school event hall

Hiruko and Puppeteers (visual: Tomiyama Taeko, music: Takahashi Yûji)
Songs by Ayuo

Takahashi Yûji: piano, Ayuo: guitar, bouzouki, vocals, Shibata Reki (vocals)


The Portrait of Yuji Takahashi
18 july (sat) Art Tower Mito Concert hall ATM, Mito 18.00 3,000yen, Students 1,000 yen

all compositions by Takahashi Yûji
Chromamorphe 2 (1964) piano: Oikawa Yumi
Seong-hwa (2005) violin: Urushibara Keiko
nabikafi (2007) piano: Takahashi Yûji
John Dowland Returns (1974) guit. Sasakubo Shin, narrator : Hatano Mutsumi
Urworte. Orphisch (1989) org.: Yasuda Noriko narr.: Hatano Mutsumi
Sinubi (2007) shakuhachi: Shimura Zenpô
Namae yo tatte aruke (The name may rise and go] Saigo no Nôto [Last Notes] voice: Hatano Mutsumi, piano: Takahashi Yûji, violin: Urushibara Keiko
Oyasumi nasai [Goodnight] (2005) voice: Hatano Mutsumi, piano: Takahashi Yûji
The Pang of Wandering Wind (1981) piano: Takahashi Yûji

Takahashi Yûji plus Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa
1 july (wed)19.00 Kanazawa Art Hall
5 july (sun) 14.00 Hama-rikyû Asahi Hall, Tokyo

Takahashi Yûji (piano)
Abigail Young,  Ebara Yuki (vln.)
Kamiyama Yuri (vla.)
Ludovit Kanta (vc.)
Konno Jun (cb.)

Bach: Clavier Concerto No. 1 in d minor
Schubert: Notturno in E flat major (D895)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 5 Alma Brasileira (piano solo)
Takahashi Yûji: Song of Old Crawfish (poem: Muro-o Saisei) (première)
Haydn: Piano Trio No.37 in d minor Hob XV/23 (1794)

YUGAWARA CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
23 june (tue) 19:00 Hinoki Charity Concert Hall, Yugawara (tel 0465-63-8923)
adv. 4,000 (student 2,500) yen, door 4,500 (std 3,000)yen

Yuji Takahashi
(piano)
Ikue Mori (electronics)
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
Rieko Suzuki (violin)
Gao Ping (piano)
Koichi Makigami (vocals, theremin)

http://www.makigami.com/ycmf.html
ticket desk at makigami.com
KOSUGI Takehisa two concerts at the National Museum of Art, Osaka
1. Music and Beyond
12 june (fri) 19.00
KOSUGI Takehisa, IZUMI Kiyoshi, HAMAZAKI Ken, FUJIMOTO Yukio, YAMATAKA Eye

2. Yuji plays Kosugi / Kosugi plays Yuji
KOSUGI Takehisa , TAKAHASHI Yuji
new works for each other

DUO Tanaka Min (dance)Takahashi Yûji (piano)
29 may (fri) 19.00 at Kôbe Shinbun Matsukata Hall  3,000 yen adv. , 3,500 yen door

Mano Vacilante
14 May (thur) 20.00 SuperDeluxe, Roppongi 3,500 yen

Performers-Yuji Takahashi : piano
                   Eriko Mikami : projection performance
                   nhhmbase


Takahashi Yûji Piano Solo
8 may (fri) 19.00 at Matumoto Performing Arts Center
30 may (sat) 19.30 at Creole, Kobe 3,500 yen

Ishida Hidemi: Chroma
Tojima Mikio: Piano Pieces
Takahashi Yûji: hanagatami 2 (2008)
Bartók: 2 Elegies Op. 8b

info: Kobe http://www.papageno.jp/creole/ 078-251-4332

Takahashi Yûji Piano Recital
15 march (sat) Alios Concert Hall, Iwaki

J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperiirtes Clavier -  Teil I
                VIII  Praeludium und Fuge in es
                XII   Praeludium und Fuge in f
                VI    Praeludium und Fuge in dFerruccio
Busoni: Sonatina seconda (1912)
    Indianisches Tagebuch Erstes Buch Nr.1-4 (1915)
             Berceuse lgiaque (1909)

Yuji Takahashi:
hanagatami 2 in memoriam Kazuko Takada
Federico Mompou: Musica Callada -  Cahier 1-4 (excerpt) (1959-1967)

Hatano Mutsumi (mezzosoprano) Takahashi Yûji (piano)
7 march 16.30 Space Who, Saitama

Mompou, Poulenc, L. Boulanger, Ravel, Satie, Takahashi

info: 0485-85-6685

Creation of New Vocal Music
20 febr (fri) 19.00 Yotuya Kumin Kaikan
3,500 yen, student 2,500 yen

Hatano Mutsumi (mzspr) Tanaka Nobu-aki (cond) Nakajima Kaori (piano)

Mamiya Michio: Yakareta Sakana

Takahashi Yûji: Yoru, Ame, Samusa [ Night, Rain, Cold] - Mayan myth retold by Subcommandante Marcos of EZLN (unacc. vocal ens.)
Yori-aki Matsudaïra: Le Tombeau de Olga Brotsky

info: tel/fax 03/3397-8398/090-9689-0422 kaoritnkjm@happy.odn.ne.jp

Uta no Iwato 2009
29 jan (thur)  theatre iwato, Kagurazaka
3,500 yen reserv. only for 130 seats
Takahashi Yûji (comp., piano) Arai Jun, Suzuki Kôsuke (vocals)
guests: Kimura Michio, Fujii Sadakazu(poets)

from Songbook (2008) 

info: 080-5452-3165  info@no12gallery.com



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