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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.

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.

Masayo Katsuyama / Shimpei Sasaki ©Hervie Yamaguchi
Performance, 2024 ©Naoya Ikegami

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.

Hiroyuki Tsuru

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

Vincent Dubois

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

Yuka Ishikawa-Mangeol ©Kouske Atsumi
Yu Shirota / Haruka Kinoshita

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

Shutaro Matsui ©Tadayuki Minamoto/ Kento Tsubosaka ©Sakiko Nomura
Fumika Asari / Kunito Kitai ©Leslie Kee

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!”)