August 11 2025
Suntory Hall Organ Festival
Suntory Hall Organ Festival is a day-long event celebrating various types of the organ. In the Main Hall, there will be an organ recital by a prominent organist and a concert of organ masterpieces by a special ensemble, and in the Blue Rose (Small Hall), there will be performances on the positive organ and jazz live performances on the Hammond organ.
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Masterpieces Played on the Organ: A Collection of British and Irish Music
12:00 Main Hall -
Talk Session: “The World of Organ Builders”
14:00 Blue Rose (Small Hall) -
The Trajectory of French Organ Works Inspired by “Cavaillé-Coll”
15:30 Main Hall -
Organ Music with Stage Reading: “Mozart!”
18:30 Main Hall -
SHUTARO MATSUI QUARTET: The Appeal of the Hammond Organ
– A New Frontier for Positive Organs
20:00 Blue Rose (Small Hall)
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Masterpieces Played on the Organ: A Collection of British and Irish Music
12:00 Main Hall -
Talk Session: “The World of Organ Builders”
14:00 Blue Rose (Small Hall) -
The Trajectory of French Organ Works Inspired by “Cavaillé-Coll”
15:30 Main Hall -
Organ Music with Stage Reading: “Mozart!”
18:30 Main Hall -
SHUTARO MATSUI QUARTET: The Appeal of the Hammond Organ
– A New Frontier for Positive Organs
20:00 Blue Rose (Small Hall)
Mon, AUG 11
Venue Main Hall & Blue Rose (Small Hall)
Masterpieces Played on the Organ: A Collection of British and Irish Music
12:00 (Doors open 11:30) ► Booking
* Approx running time: 70 minutes
Main Hall
Organ Masayo Katsuyama
Percussion Megumi Hattori
Conductor and Navigator Shimpei Sasaki
Organ Festival Special Brass Ensemble
New National Theatre Chorus
“God Save the King”
Korb / Roever (arr. Masayo Katsuyama): Highland Cathedral
Hina Sakamoto: imagine A NIGHT, Expcerpts
Whelan (arr. Masayo Katsuyama): “Firedance” from Riverdance
Irish Traditional (arr. Takeshi Kondo): “Londonderry Air”
Todd: “The Call of Wisdom”
Rutter: Gloria for Mixed Voices with Brass, Percussion and Organ
* Presented in Japanese language.
Talk Session: “The World of Organ Builders”
14:00 (Doors open 13:30) ► Booking
* Approx running time: 45 minutes
Blue Rose (Small Hall)
Organ Builder Hiroyuki Tsuru
* Presented in Japanese language.
The Trajectory of French Organ Works Inspired by Cavaillé-Coll
15:15 (Doors open 14:45) ► Booking
* Approx running time: 70 minutes
Main Hall
Organ Vincent Dubois (Titular organist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris)
Widor: The 1st Movement from Organ Symphony No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 42, No. 1
Franck: No. 2 “Cantabile” from Trois pièces
Vierne: The 5th Movement from Organ Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 59
Saint-Saëns (arr. Edwin Henry Lemare): Danse macabre, Op. 40
Ravel (arr. Vincent Dubois): “Rigaudon” “Menuet” and “Toccata” from Le tombeau de Couperin
Dupré: The 3rd Movement from Évocation, Op. 37
Vincent Dubois: “Salve Regina,” Improvisation
Organ Music with Stage Reading: “Mozart!”
18:30 (Doors open 18:00) ► Booking
* Approx running time: 80 minutes
Main Hall
Organ Yuka Ishikawa-Mangeol
Narrator Yu Shirota, Haruka Kinoshita
Levay (arr. Hina Sakamoto): From Mozart!
“Ich Bin, Ich Bin Musik”
“Irgendwo Wird Immer Getanzt”
“Gold Von Den Sternen”
and others
Book and Lyrics Michael Kunze
Music and Orchestrations Sylvester Levay
Stage Reading Advisor Yu Shirota
Arrangement for Organ Hina Sakamoto
Script for Stage Reading Maiko Tanaka
Original Production by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien
* Narration: Japanese language
SHUTARO MATSUI QUARTET: The Appeal of the Hammond Organ – A New Frontier for Positive Organ
18:30 (Doors open 18:00) ► Booking
* Approx running time: 70 minutes
Blue Rose (Small Hall)
SHUTARO MATSUI QUARTET
Trumpet: Shutaro Matsui
Hammond Organ / Positiv Organ: Kento Tsubosaka
Guitar: Fumika Asari
Drum: Kunito Kitai
Oscar Peterson: “Hymn to Freedom”
Shutaro Matsui: A Piece Inspired by the Suntory Whisky Hibiki [World Premiere]
Shutaro Matsui: Blue Rose
and others
Presented by Suntory Hall
Supported by Yamaha Corporation
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan through the Japan Arts Council (Organ Laboratory)
Supported by TOHO CO., LTD. (Organ Music with Stage Reading: “Mozart!”)
