Complete Concert Program Archive

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The 58th Subscription Concert

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Tatsuya Shimono as Music Director

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Venue: JMS Aster Plaza, Main Hall

Conductor:Tatsuya Shimono (Music Director, Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)

Program

Michio Mamiya: Overture for Band

(Test piece for the 1986 All Japan Band Contest)

Akira Miyoshi: Festivals of the Deep Abyss (Shinso no Matsuri)

(Test piece for the 1988 All Japan Band Contest)

Yo Goto: Festal Scenes "Beyond"

Toshio Mashima: Three Japonismes

Walter Piston: Tunbridge Fair

H. Owen Reed: La Fiesta Mexicana – A Mexican Folk Song Symphony 

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Hiroshima Wind Orchestra: Special Concert in Mihara

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Venue: Mihara City Performing Arts Center POPOLO

Conductor: Tatsuya Shimono (Music Director, Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)
Trumpet Solo: Toshiya Murakami *
Program

Shigeaki Saegusa: Overture "FIVE RINGS"

2023 All Japan Band Contest Required Pieces:

・Keigo Makino: March "Bright Morning" (Winner of the 32nd Asahi Composition Award)

・Hideki Miyashita: Polonaise and Aria for Band

・Masamichi Amano: Retro (Commissioned by the All Japan Band Association)

・Toru Minakuchi: March "Pegasus Dream"

Bin Kaneda: Passacaglia for Symphonic Band

Philip Sparke: Flowerdale from "Hymn of the Highlands"

Zequinha de Abreu (arr. Naohiro Iwai): Tico-Tico no Fubá

Jan Van der Roost: Canterbury Chorale

Japanese Graffiti XI  "Detective TV Themes" (arr. Takashi Hoshide)

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The 59th Subscription Concert

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Orchestra

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Venue: JMS Aster Plaza, Main Hall

Conductor: Tatsuya Shimono (Music Director, Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)

Trumpet: Kazuaki Kikumoto (Principal Trumpet, NHK Symphony Orchestra) *
Program

Ken'ichi Masakado: Toward the Blue

Akira Nishimura: HIGI I for Wind Ensemble

Akira Nishimura: HIGI II for 7-part Wind Orchestra and 4 Percussionists

Bert Appermont: Trumpet Concerto

(World Premiere; Jointly commissioned by Kazuaki Kikumoto and Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)

Akira Nishimura: HIGI III – Heterophony for Gyratory Dance

Akira Nishimura: HIGI IV "March" (Original Small Ensemble Version)

Paul Hindemith: Symphony in B-flat

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The 60th Subscription Concert

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Orchestra / Part II

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Venue: JMS Aster Plaza, Main Hall

Conductor: Tatsuya Shimono (Music Director, Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)
Program

Kazuhiro Morita: MANA in October

(Commissioned work in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Hiroshima Wind Orchestra)

Akira Nishimura: HIGI V "Eclipse"

Naohiro Iwai: Beyond the Horizon

(In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Naohiro Iwai)

David Maslanka: Symphony No. 8