CONCERT PROGRAMME2017/18 SEASON

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Fri 25 May 2018 at 8.30 pmSat 26 May 2018 at 3.00 pmSun 27 May 2018 at 3.00 pm Malaysian Philharmonic OrchestraNaohisa Furusawa, conductorJapanese School of Kuala Lumpur Children’s Chorus PROGRAMME

MIKI Anpanman Medley 10 mins

HISAISHI Symphonic Variation Merry-Go-Round and Cave of Mind (from Howl’s Moving Castle) 12 mins

HISAISHI Kimi Wo Nosete (from Laputa) 8 mins

HISAISHI Gake No Ue No Ponyo 4 mins

INTERVAL 20 mins

MIYAGAWA Orchestra Suite (from Yamato) 10 mins

HISAISHI My Neighbour TOTORO: Orchestra Stories 2002 26 mins

NAOHISA FURUSAWA conductor

Naohisa Furusawa has been a member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) double bass section since 2003. 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 9th Symphony five times with Tokyo’s MAX Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducted Mahler’s Second Symphony with the MAX Philharmonic to commemorate the 70th 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.

Takashi Miki, whose real name was Tadashi Watanabe, was born in Tokyo in 1945. 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 1974.

Miki also composed the Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu theme song for The Adventures of the Little Prince anime series in 1978. 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 1981.

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.

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.

His well-known compositions are Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, Kureji ogon sakusen, Yakusoku, Grand Prix Hawk, Maaterlinck’s Bluebird and Space Battleship Yamato.

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Takashi Miki is most remembered for the insanely catchy Anpanman no March, the theme song for Soreike! Anpanman television series that was launched in 1988. It remains the theme song for the franchise three decades later.

Anpanman is a Japanese picture book series written by Takashi Yanase which ran from 1973 till 2013. 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 bean-jam 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 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.

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Gake No Ue No Ponyo (from Ponyo on the Cliff) is the theme song to the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo, released in 2007. 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.

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.

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. news.qoo-app.com

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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 2010.

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

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Note: Sectional string players are rotated within their sections. *Extra musician.

MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

RESIDENT CONDUCTORNaohisa Furusawa

FIRST VIOLINCo-ConcertmasterPeter DanišPrincipalMing GohCo-PrincipalsZhenzhen Liang*Barbora Kolářová

Runa BaagöeMaho DanišMiroslav DanišEvgeny KaplanMartijn NoomenSherwin ThiaMarcel AndriesiiTan Ka MingPetia Atanasova

SECOND VIOLINSection PrincipalTimothy PetersAssistant PrincipalLuisa Hyams

Catalina AlvarezChia-Nan HungAnastasia KiselevaStefan KocsisLing YunzhiIonuț MazareanuYanbo ZhaoAi JinRobert Kopelman

VIOLACo-PrincipalGábor Mokány

Ong Lin KernSun YuanThian Ai WenFan RanEmil Csonka*Hsiao Chia-Chien*Javier Lopez Calvo CELLOCo-PrincipalCsaba KörösAssistant PrincipalSteven RetallickSub-PrincipalMátyás Major

Gerald DavisJulie DessureaultLaurențiu GhermanElizabeth Tan SuyinSejla Simon

DOUBLE BASSSection PrincipalWolfgang Steike

Raffael BietenhaderJun-Hee ChaeNaohisa FurusawaJohn KennedyAndreas Dehner

FLUTESection Principal*Catherine GregoryCo-PrincipalYukako YamamotoSub-PrincipalRachel Jenkyns

PICCOLOPrincipalSonia Croucher

OBOESection PrincipalSimon EmesCo-Principal*Bernice Lee Wen TingSub-PrincipalNiels Dittmann

CLARINETSection PrincipalGonzalo EstebanCo-PrincipalDavid Dias da SilvaSub-PrincipalMatthew Larsen

BASS CLARINETPrincipalChris Bosco

BASSOONSection PrincipalAlexandar LenkovCo-Principal*Liu ChangSub-PrincipalDenis Plangger

CONTRABASSOONPrincipalVladimir Stoyanov

HORNSection PrincipalsGrzegorz Curyla*Albert GalkaCo-PrincipalJames SchumacherSub-PrincipalsLaurence DaviesBarkin SönmezerAssistant PrincipalSim Chee Ghee

TRUMPETSection Principal*Matthew BakerCo-PrincipalWilliam TheisSub-PrincipalJeffrey MissalAssistant Principal*Matthew Dempsey

TROMBONESection Principal*Andrzej TkaczykCo-PrincipalFernando Borja

BASS TROMBONEPrincipal*Gabriel Roberson

TUBAPrincipal*Hidehiro Fujita

TIMPANISection PrincipalMatthew Thomas

PERCUSSIONSection PrincipalMatthew PrendergastSub-PrincipalsJoshua Vonderheide*Kyle Ritenauer*Tan Su Yin HARPPrincipalTan Keng Hong

PIANOAkiko Daniš

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CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPMANAGEMENTYayuk Yulianawati RilaJalwati Mohd Noor

MUSIC TALENT DEVELOPMENT &MANAGEMENTSoraya Mansor

PLANNING, FINANCE & ITMohd Hakimi Mohd RosliNorhisham Abd RahmanSiti Nur Ilyani Ahmad FadzillahNurfharah Farhana Hashimi

PROCUREMENT & CONTRACTLogiswary RamanNorhaszilawati Zainudin

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATIONSharhida SaadMuknoazlida MukhadzimNor Afidah NordinNik Nurul Nadia Nik Abdullah

TECHNICAL OPERATIONSFiroz KhanMohd Zamir Mohd IsaShahrul Rizal Mohd AliDayan Erwan MaharalZolkarnain Sarman

MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONICORCHESTRA

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERNor Raina Yeong Abdullah

GENERAL MANAGERKhor Chin YangSoraya Mansor

GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICETimmy Ong

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION/ ORCHESTRA MANAGEMENT/ MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC YOUTHORCHESTRAAhmad Muriz Che RoseSharon Francis LihanFadilah Kamal FrancisShireen Jasin MokhtarKatherine Tan Jia Yiing

MUSIC LIBRARYOng Li-HueyWong Seong SeongMuhamad Zaid Azzim Mohd Diah

EDUCATION & OUTREACHShafrin SabriShireen Jasin Mokhtar

CORPORATE SUITECLUB MEMBERS

CORPORATE SUITEPREMIUM MEMBERS

JAPANESE SCHOOL OF KUALA LUMPURCHILDREN'S CHORUS

Saito MomokoIshii YumaMinakuchi ReiUraki HarunaTokumura KahoriHosotani TamakiMinagawa KokonaYoshida Sayuki

Tsunekage AkiraTanaka MayuMatsuyama AyakaMotohashi MarinIshibashi MahiroKondo HatsumeNakanishi KoyukiYoshida Chisato

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