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Extraordinary concert with Maria MaricaInternational Music Festival in Tokyo, 39th edition
Romanian Cultural Institute -Tokyo supports the participation of violinist Maria Marica at the 39th edition of the International Music Festival in Tokyo - an event organized by the Japan Music Culture Exchange Association, the Special Executive Committee for International Exchange and Friendship and the Japan-Poland Association, with the support of partners Japan Red Cross and Asahi Shimbun.
The concert will take place on March 27, at Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo and will be performed by the international orchestra Virtuoso Mozart Festival Orchestra composed of talented young musicians from Eastern European countries, under the baton of maestro Mitsuyoshi Oikawa and soloists: Maria Marica (violin), Murakami Kouki (piano) and Goto Mariko (piano).
In the concert program:
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 61 - soloist Maria Marica
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto no. 4 for Piano and Orchestra op. 58 - soloist Murakami Kouki
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No. 24 for piano and orchestra K 218 - soloist Goto Mariko
Over time, through the involvement of the Romanian Embassy in Japan, and, since 2025, of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, the festival has supported and promoted several guest musicians from Romania: Bianca Ligia Manolianu, Alexandru Tomescu, Ioana Deliolan, Alina Balaban, Roxana Bajdek, Sînziana Mircea, Adina Cocrujean, Mihai Rițivoiu, Cristian Agapie and Ionuț Diaconu.
It is a charitable event organized for international cultural exchange and to support and promote young musicians originating from Eastern Europe
*Maria Marica - Born into a family of musicians, began studying the violin at the age of seven. After working with Vasile Socea and Nicușor Silaghi in her hometown, she currently studies in Germany, with David Grimal (violin) and Krzysztof Chorzelski (chamber music).
She is the winner of the 2022 edition of the George Enescu International Competition, and in June of the same year she won the New Hope Grand Prix Competition in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, thus having the opportunity to perform with 10 philharmonic orchestras in the country, in the 2022-2023 season. Maria Marica has performed throughout Romania, but also in France, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Germany and the United States, and in November 2023, her recital at the Romanian Athenaeum was included in the European Broadcasting Union's Young Top Performers series. She has given chamber recitals with great performers such as Marc Coppey, David Grimal, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Solenne Païdassi, Philippe Cassard, among others. In 2022 and 2023 she participated in courses at the Lumières d’Europe Academy and Festival, where she worked with David Grimal, Gary Hoffman, Anne Gastinel, Philippe Cassard, Diemut Poppen and Claire Désert.
She is a member of the Les Dissonances ensemble, the only one that performs symphonic repertoire without a conductor, and has been active in the Romanian Youth Orchestra and the Romanian Chamber Orchestra.
Maria Marica had the chance to work with violinists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Nora Chastain, Mihaela Martin, Rosanne Philippens, Kolja Blacher, Gerhard Schulz and took part in chamber music programs such as SoNoRo Interferențe and the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival in California, benefiting from the advice of musicians such as Frans Helmerson, Boris Brovtsyn, Sergey Malov, Diana Ketler, Clive Greensmith, Erin Keefe, as well as members of the Emerson String Quartet, among others.
She plays a violin made by Auguste Sébastien Philippe Bernardel in 1845, obtained through a private loan.
*Mitsuyoshi Oikawa - composer and conductor; born in Hokkaido in 1949. After studying at the Tokyo College of Music and the Toho Gakuen Conducting School, he studied under Seiji Ozawa in 1978. Since 1983, he has conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Gunma Symphony Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, and others.” Since 1988, he has been the permanent guest conductor of the China Film Orchestra and the Shanghai Film Orchestra for six years. Since 1990, he has toured the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Hungary, etc. Since 2004, he has been the permanent guest conductor of the Bulgarian National Symphony Orchestra in Sofia for six years. He received the Honorary Award from the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria in 2009, the Order of Cultural Merit from the Romanian government in 2014, the Order with Honorary Mention from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria in 2019, and the Order of Cultural Merit from the Polish government. In July 2012, he was decorated with the Order of Cultural Merit by the Presidency of Romania. In 2023, he was decorated with the Gold Order of Merit by the Japanese Red Cross Society.
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Event Venue
浜離宮朝日ホール Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, 築地5-3-2,Chuo,Tokyo,Japan
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