Admission fee [Reserved Seat]
- S: 4,000 Yen / A: 3,000 Yen
- B: 2,000 Yen / Students: 1,000 Yen
The Producer Series KATAYAMA MORIHIDE ga HIRAKU
re-discover JAPAN
This year we will welcome Mr. Morihide Katayama who has been drawn to and listening to all genres of Japanese music since childhood; he has re-discovered many forgotten master works by Japanese composers. We invite you to rediscover hidden gems of the Japanese music performed by renowned Japanese artists for 4 nights by yourself.
re-discover: Pre-War Japan
− Hisato Ozawa, Forgotten Composer −
15:00 Sunday, September 3 at Main Hall
Hisato Ozawa (1906-53): Concerto for Double-Bass and Orchestra** (1934)
Hisato Ozawa: Concerto No. 3 “Kamikaze” for Pianoforte Solo and Orchestra* (1936-38)
Hisato Ozawa: Symphony No. 1 (1934)
- Conductor = Kazuki Yamada
- Piano = Kotaro Fukuma*
- Double Bass = Nakako Sano**
- Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Hisato Ozawa
Kazuki Yamada 
Kotaro Fukuma 
Nakako Sano 
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Series Tickets
- “KATAYAMA MORIHIDE ga HIRAKU”
- 2 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 6,000 Yen *only 100 Series sets
- 4 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 4, Sep. 6, Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 10,000 Yen *only 50 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
re-discover: Post-War Japan
− GAGAKU by Takemitsu & Mayuzumi −
19:00 Monday, September 4 at Blue Rose
Toru Takemitsu (1930-96): In an Autumn Garden (1979)
Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-97): Showa Tenpyoraku* (1970)
- Reigakusha
- Conductor = Sunao Isaji*
Reigakusha 
Sunao Isaji
Toru Takemitsu 
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Admission fee [Non Reserved Seat]
- Adults: 3,000 Yen
- Students: 1,000 Yen
Series Tickets
- “KATAYAMA MORIHIDE ga HIRAKU”
- 4 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 4, Sep. 6, Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 10,000 Yen *only 50 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
re-discover: Post-War Japan
− Chamber Music by Akutagawa & Matsumura −
19:00 Wednesday, September 6 at Blue Rose
Yasushi Akutagawa (1925-89): La Danse suite pour piano deux danses avec un intermezzo*** (1948)
Teizo Matsumura (1929-2007): Deux Berceuses à la Grèce*** (1969)
Teizo Matsumura: Musique pour Quatuor à Cordes et Piano-forte*** (1962)
Teizo Matsumura: Portrait* (2006)
Yasushi Akutagawa: Music for strings No. 1** (1962)
Teizo Matsumura: PNEUMA for strings** (1987)
Yasushi Akutagawa: TRIPTYQUE for String Orchestra** (1953)
- Conductor = Sho Ito**
- Cello = Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi*
- Piano = Eisuke Tsuchida*, Mamiko Tomari***
- Strings
- Violin = Kei Shirai, Nobuhiro Suyama, Ai Takeuchi, Nao Maeda, Tadashi Machida, Kanako Yanagida, Ami Yumoto
- Viola = Mari Adachi, Ayako Tahara
- Cello = Hiroki Kadowaki, Kei Yamazawa
- Contrabass = Jun Okamoto
Sho Ito 
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi 
Eisuke Tsuchida 
Mamiko Tomari
Kei Shirai 
Nobuhiro Suyama 
Ai Takeuchi 
Nao Maeda 
Tadashi Machida
Kanako Yanagida 
Ami Yumoto 
Mari Adachi 
Ayako Tahara 
Hiroki Kadowaki
Kei Yamazawa 
Jun Okamoto
Yasushi Akutagawa 
Teizo Matsumura
Admission fee [Non Reserved Seat]
- Adults: 3,000 Yen
- Students: 1,000 Yen
Series Tickets
- “KATAYAMA MORIHIDE ga HIRAKU”
- 4 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 4, Sep. 6, Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 10,000 Yen *only 50 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
re-discover: Wartime Japan
− Music by Otaka, Ifukube, Yamada, Moroi −
15:00 Sunday, September 10 at Main Hall
Hisatada Otaka (1911-51): Eine Symphonische Phantasie “Steppe” Op.19 (1943)
Kazuo Yamada (1912-91): Grand Treasure Op. 20 (1944)
Akira Ifukube (1914-2006): Symphony Concertante for piano and orchestra * (1941)
Saburo Moroi (1903-77): Symphonie Ⅲ (1944)
- Conductor = Tatsuya Shimono
- Piano = Michie Koyama*
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Tatsuya Shimono 
Michie Koyama 
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Hisatada Otaka 
Kazuo Yamada 
Akira Ifukube 
Saburo Moroi
Admission fee [Reserved Seat]
- S: 4,000 Yen / A: 3,000 Yen
- B: 2,000 Yen / Students: 1,000 Yen
Series Tickets
- “KATAYAMA MORIHIDE ga HIRAKU”
- 2 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 6,000 Yen *only 100 Series sets
- 4 concerts series [Sep. 3 (S seat), Sep. 4, Sep. 6, Sep. 10 (S seat)]
- 10,000 Yen *only 50 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition No.40, Artistic Director : Toshio Hosokawa
Theme Composer Georg Friedrich Haas
Suntory Hall has commissioned orchestral works to forefront composers every year and has presented these world-premieres. It started on the proposal and supervision by late Toru Takemitsu in 1986 when this hall opened. The supervisor was taken over by Joji Yuasa in 1999, then succeed by Toshio Hosokawa in 2012.
Friedrich Cerha (1926- ): Nacht (2012-13)
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953- )
: New Work* (2016-17)Commissioned by Suntory Hall
: Traum in des Sommers Nacht (2009)
Katherine Balch (1991- ): Leaf Fabric (2017)
- Conductor = Ilan Volkov
- Violin = Miranda Cuckson*
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov 
Miranda Cuckson 
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Admission fee [Reserved Seat]
- S: 4,000 Yen / A: 3,000 Yen
- B: 2,000 Yen / Students: 1,000 Yen
Series Tickets
- “Theme Composer <Georg Friedrich Haas>”
- 2 concerts series [Sep. 7(S seat), Sep 11]
- 5,000 Yen *only 100 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
Chamber Music
19:00 Monday, September 11 at Blue Rose
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953- )
: Tombeau for violin, violoncello and piano* (2013)
: String quartet No. 2** (1998)
: ins Licht for violin, violoncello and piano* (2007)
: de terrae fine for violin solo*** (2001)
: tria ex uno for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello**** (2001)
- Piano = Hideki Nagano *,****
- Violin = Yasutaka Hemmi *,**,****Yoshu Kamei **Miranda Cuckson ***
- Viola = Takahiro Yasuda **
- Cello = Tomoki Tai *,**,****
- Conductor = Yoichi Sugiyama ****
- Flute = Kaori Wakabayashi ****
- Clarinet = Nozomi Ueda ****
- Percussion = Yoshiko Kanda ****
Hideki Nagano 
Yasutaka Hemmi 
Yoshu Kamei 
Miranda Cuckson 
Takahiro Yasuda
Tomoki Tai 
Yoichi Sugiyama 
Kaori Wakabayashi 
Nozomi Ueda 
Yoshiko Kanda
Admission fee [Non Reserved Seat]
- Adults: 3,000 Yen
- Students: 1,000 Yen
Series Tickets
- “Theme Composer <Georg Friedrich Haas>”
- 2 concerts series [Sep. 7(S seat), Sep 11]
- 5,000 Yen *only 100 Series sets
Available only at Tokyo Concerts, Inc. (Tel: 03-3200-9755)
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
The 27th Competition of Akutagawa Award for Music Composition
“AKUTAGAWA Award for Music Composition” was established in 1990 by Suntory Music Foundation (switched to Suntory Foundation for Arts in 2009) to commemorate the achievement of the composer Yasushi Akutagawa (1925 – 1989). This award is to honor the piece composed by the Japanese and premiered either at home or abroad that has the most freshness and the potential for the bright future ahead. The nominated works are performed on stage and the judging process is open to public; this approach is first to be done in Japan. The winner receives not only the prize but also a commission for the new work.
Cooperated with The Japan Federation of Composers, Japanese Society for Rights of Authers, Composers and Publishers and Japan Society for Contemporary Music.
The 27th Competition of Akutagawa Award for Music Composition
15:00 Saturday, September 2 at Main Hall
Commissioned work of The 25th Competition of Akutagawa Award for Music Composition
Yuta Bandoh (1991- ): Fireworks - Concerto for piano and orchestra* (2017)
Commissioned by Suntory Foundation for Arts
Finalists' works
Alice Nakamura (1982- ): Nacres for Orchestra (2015)
Wataru Mukai (1993- ): Phosphene−Prinsessegade, 1440** (2016)
Hirofumi Mogi (1988- ): Let's speak in Wondrous Words! (2015)
Open jury meeting after the concert (MC: Seiji Choki)
- Jury: Kenji Sakai, Akira Nishimura, Masahiro Yamauchi
- Conductor = Yoichi Sugiyama
- Piano: Hideki Nagano*, Shoichiro Tanaka**
- New Japan Philharmonic
Yoichi Sugiyama 
Hideki Nagano 
Shoichiro Tanaka 
New Japan Philharmonic
Admission fee [Reserved Seat]
- Adults: 2,000 Yen
- Students: 1,000 Yen
- * Suntory Hall Ticket Center opens from Mon to Fri, 10 am to 6 pm during closure of the Hall. Closed on Sat, Sun, and national holidays. The Box Office is closed from Feb 1 to Aug 31.
- * Students tickets: Available only at Suntory Hall Ticket Center, student ID required.
- * You are kindly requested not to bring pre-school children to concerts.
- * Musicians and programs are subject to change.
