CONCERT PROGRAMME 2017/18 SEASON - Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
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CONCERT PROGRAMME 2017/18 SEASON
Fri 25 May 2018 at 8.30 pm
Sat 26 May 2018 at 3.00 pm
Sun 27 May 2018 at 3.00 pm
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Naohisa Furusawa, conductor
Japanese 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
All details are correct at time of printing. Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS reserves the right to vary without notice the artists and/or repertoire as
necessary. Copyright © 2018 by Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS (Co. No. 462692-X). All rights reserved. No part of this programme may be
reproduced in any form without the written permission of the copyright owners.
PROGRAMME NOTES
NAOHISA FURUSAWA The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra presentations of A Musical Journey In
conductor 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,
Naohisa Furusawa has been a member Joe Hisaishi and Hiroshi Miyagawa.
of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
(MPO) double bass section since 2003. Takashi Miki, whose real name was Tadashi Watanabe, was
Born in Tokyo in 1973, he started to play born in Tokyo in 1945. He aspired to be a singer after his
the violin when he was four years old and high school graduation but taught himself to compose music
later joined his junior high school orchestra instead. He made his professional debut in 1967 and wrote
as a double bass player at age 12; his first the theme song for the anime film Jakku to Mame no Ki (Jack
conducting experiences were with this and the Beanstalk) in 1974.
orchestra. Later, he studied double bass
with Prof. Nobuo Shiga, and piano and Miki also composed the Hoshi no Ōjisama Puchi Puransu
conducting with Prof. Kazue Kamiya at theme song for The Adventures of the Little Prince anime
Tokyo’s Toho Gakuen School of Music. series in 1978. One of his most famous songs is the Dreaming
discogs.com duo’s theme for the Anpanman’s 1988 television premiere.
Furusawa has performed as a double bass
player with the NHK Symphony, Yomiuri
Mamoru Fujisawa, known professionally as Joe Hisaishi, was
Nippon Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan
born in 1950 in Nakano. Known for his musical versatility that
Symphony and several other orchestras,
fuses Japanese and Western classical idioms, and minimalist
under the direction of many conductors
and experimental electronic styles, he made a name in the
including Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
world of post-modern music and minimalist arts in the late
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Lorin
1970s. His first major album MKWAJU was released in 1981.
Maazel, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez
and Valery Gergiev.
Hisaishi has composed over a hundred movie scores including
In 1998, Furusawa was awarded a scholarship from the Cultural Affairs Agency popular collaborations with Studio Ghibli films directed by the
of Japan to study double bass at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He has renowned Hayao Miyazaki. Their first collaboration was in
conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony five times with Tokyo’s MAX Philharmonic 1984 with the anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. imgur.com
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. Hiroshi Miyagawa was born in 1931 in Hokkaido. He was
educated at the Kyoto Art and the Osaka Universities. In the
He has conducted many young musician ensembles including MPO’s Encounter 1960s, he began to arrange and compose music for radio and
Training Ensemble and the Miri Tutti Project in East Malaysia as part of the MPO’s television and eventually went on to score over twenty motion
Education and Outreach Programme. pictures which won several awards.
His well-known compositions are Ghidorah the Three-Headed
Monster, Kureji ogon sakusen, Yakusoku, Grand Prix Hawk,
myanimelist.net Maaterlinck’s Bluebird and Space Battleship Yamato.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.
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
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crystal from a group of militia while
searching for a legendary floating castle.
Anpanman is a Japanese picture book series written by Takashi Yanase which ran
Following a grandiose brass fanfare,
from 1973 till 2013. The series was adapted into one of the most popular Japanese
Hisaishi’s relentless song begins and
anime for young children entitled Soreike! Anpanman (Let’s Go! Anpanman).
remains in the minor mode mostly but
It follows the adventures of Anpanman, a superhero with an anpan (a bean-
ends triumphantly in the tonic major.
jam filled pastry) for a head, who protects the world from an evil anthropomorphic flickr.com
germ called Baikinman. The orchestral suite expounds Miki’s catchy music in an
Anpanman Medley of true symphonic splendour. Gake No Ue No Ponyo (from Ponyo
on the Cliff) is the theme song to the
Symphonic Variation Merry-Go- Studio Ghibli film Ponyo, released in
Round and Cave of Mind (Howl’s 2007. The lively and cheerful song has
Moving Castle) was arranged by an elegant simplicity and was written in
Joe Hisaishi as a concert version collaboration with Hisaishi, with lyrics by
of his original score for the 2004 the film’s supervisor Katsuya Kondō and
fantasy film Howl’s Moving Castle lord-phillock.deviantart.com director Miyazaki.
directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The
story is set in a fictional kingdom Hiroshi Miyagawa’s tonal music for
where magic and 20th century Space Battleship Yamato is dominated
technology are prevalent, against by a lovely melodic main theme in
a war backdrop. The film tells of a a doleful minor key, which contrasts
young hatter named Sophie after with themes for other characters that
she is turned into an old woman by comprise pop and jazz styles, all of
a witch’s curse. She encounters a which capture an evocative musical
wizard named Howl, and gets caught texture which contributes greatly to the
up in his resistance to fighting for the
studioghiblimovies.com
film’s ambience. The triumphant and
king. The Symphonic Variation Merry-Go-Round takes the form of a melodious grand ending utilizes a powerful Western
slow waltz in triple time. Cave of Mind is similarly soulful which later reminisces “Tierce de Picardie” compositional
back to the lovely slow waltz of the previous piece. news.qoo-app.com technique in the exultant major key.MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
RESIDENT VIOLA PICCOLO TRUMPET
CONDUCTOR Co-Principal Principal Section Principal
Naohisa Furusawa Gábor Mokány Sonia Croucher *Matthew Baker
Co-Principal
FIRST VIOLIN Ong Lin Kern OBOE William Theis
Co-Concertmaster Sun Yuan Section Principal Sub-Principal
Peter Daniš Thian Ai Wen Simon Emes Jeffrey Missal
Principal Fan Ran Co-Principal Assistant Principal
Ming Goh Emil Csonka *Bernice Lee Wen Ting *Matthew Dempsey
Co-Principals *Hsiao Chia-Chien Sub-Principal
Zhenzhen Liang *Javier Lopez Calvo Niels Dittmann TROMBONE
*Barbora Kolářová Section Principal
CELLO CLARINET *Andrzej Tkaczyk
Runa Baagöe Co-Principal Section Principal Co-Principal
Maho Daniš Csaba Körös Gonzalo Esteban Fernando Borja
Miroslav Daniš Assistant Principal Co-Principal
Evgeny Kaplan Steven Retallick David Dias da Silva BASS TROMBONE
Martijn Noomen Sub-Principal Sub-Principal Principal
premiere.fr fareastfilm.com Sherwin Thia Mátyás Major Matthew Larsen *Gabriel Roberson
Marcel Andriesii
Hisaishi’s collaboration with Miyazaki in the multiple award-winning fantasy anime Tan Ka Ming Gerald Davis BASS CLARINET TUBA
My Neighbour TOTORO (1988) was declared number 41 in Empire magazine’s Petia Atanasova Julie Dessureault Principal Principal
Laurențiu Gherman Chris Bosco *Hidehiro Fujita
100 Best Films Of World Cinema in 2010. SECOND VIOLIN Elizabeth Tan Suyin
Section Principal Sejla Simon BASSOON TIMPANI
This beguiling adventure between two sisters and a magical creature, TOTORO, Timothy Peters Section Principal Section Principal
Assistant Principal DOUBLE BASS Alexandar Lenkov Matthew Thomas
is beautifully narrated by the multi-part Orchestra Stories of upbeat music style, Luisa Hyams Section Principal Co-Principal
comprising eight separate character pieces namely Stroll, The Village in May, Wolfgang Steike *Liu Chang PERCUSSION
Travelling Soot - Mother, It Was TOTORO!, The Path of the Wind, A Lost Child, Catalina Alvarez Sub-Principal Section Principal
Catbus and My Neighbour TOTORO. Chia-Nan Hung Raffael Bietenhader Denis Plangger Matthew Prendergast
Anastasia Kiseleva Jun-Hee Chae Sub-Principals
Stefan Kocsis Naohisa Furusawa CONTRABASSOON Joshua Vonderheide
Concert Notes by Daniel Lee Ling Yunzhi John Kennedy Principal *Kyle Ritenauer
Ionuț Mazareanu Andreas Dehner Vladimir Stoyanov *Tan Su Yin
Yanbo Zhao
Ai Jin FLUTE HORN HARP
Robert Kopelman Section Principal Section Principals Principal
*Catherine Gregory Grzegorz Curyla Tan Keng Hong
Co-Principal *Albert Galka
Yukako Yamamoto Co-Principal PIANO
Sub-Principal James Schumacher Akiko Daniš
Rachel Jenkyns Sub-Principals
Laurence Davies
Barkin Sönmezer
Assistant Principal
Sim Chee Ghee
Note: Sectional string players are rotated within their sections. *Extra musician.DEWAN FILHARMONIK PETRONAS
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