“Evangelion” Wind Symphony will finally be held in Osaka this weekend! Video comments have arrived from Masamichi Amano, Yoko Takahashi, and Eric Miyashiro!
*Kyodo Medias Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 2, 2024
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“Evangelion” Wind Symphony will finally be held in Osaka this weekend! Video comments have arrived from Masamichi Amano, Yoko Takahashi, and Eric Miyashiro!
* “Evangelion” Wind Symphony * was held at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall on Sunday, September 1st. For this performance, new *
Two songs from “Shin Evangelion Theatrical Version”* were newly arranged, tickets were sold out, and the performance ended with great success.
In preparation for the Osaka performance, which will be held this weekend on September 8th (Sunday), we have received video comments from *Masamichi Amano*, *Yoko Takahashi*, and *Eric Miyashiro*.
*Click here for comment video* * https://youtu.be/UIJ9h5TN7ZI*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIJ9h5TN7ZI
The date, time and venue of the Osaka performance are as follows: Osaka performance: Sunday, September 8, 2024, 15:30 start, Osaka International Conference Center Main Hall
Don’t miss out on this performance, which is getting more and more exciting after the Kawasaki performance!
Enjoy the world of “Evangelion” with a gorgeous and profound wind symphony! Tickets are now on sale at each play guide!
For more information, please visit the official performance website https://kyodotokyo.com/pr/eva-ws2024.html
* Evangelion” Wind Symphony Performance Overview*
Supervision and composition: Shiro Sagisu
-Appearance-
Conductor/Arrangement: Masamichi Amano
Guest singer: Yoko Takahashi
Guest trumpet: Eric Miyashiro
Wind Orchestra: Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra
-Osaka-
Date and time: Sunday, September 8, 2024 15:30 start (doors open at 14:30) Venue: Osaka International Conference Center Main Hall
Ticket price (tax included): S seat 6,800 yen, A seat 5,800 yen, B seat 4,800 yen
General ticket sale date: August 10, 2024 (Sat) 10:00
Questions: Kyodo Information 0570-200-888 (11:00-18:00/Closed on Sundays and holidays)
Performance official website: https://kyodotokyo.com/pr/eva-ws2024.html
-Notes-
*Preschool children are not allowed to enter.
*One ticket is required per person.
*Performers may change due to unavoidable circumstances. There will be no refunds due to changes in performers.
*Customers using wheelchairs should purchase a ticket and then call the local inquiry number.
*In principle, tickets will not be refunded unless the performance is postponed or cancelled.
*What is Wind Symphony? This is a performance by a brass band. *There will be no video production projected on the screen on stage to accompany the performance. This is a performance-only concert. *There are no plans to sell a live CD of this concert.
*Shiro Sagisu will not be appearing.
◆Sponsor/Planning/Production: Kyodo Tokyo
◆Cooperation: King Records/Ground Works/Kyodo Osaka (Osaka performance)
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* Performers *
* Conductor/Arrangement: Masamichi Amano*
A composer and conductor who writes without restraint from visual music, contemporary music, popular songs, Jazz, enka to wind orchestra. Conducted the orchestral arrangement of works by his ally Shiro Sagisu, including Evangelion: New Theatrical Version, Berserk, Attack on Titan, Shin Godzilla, Shin Evangelion: Shin Ultraman, Shin Godzilla vs. Evangelion Symphony Orchestra (London Studio Orchestra, Polish National Warsaw Orchestra) Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra, etc.). He will be in charge of orchestral composition, arrangement, and conductor for SEGA’s Sympathy 2013, 2015, and 2021, and will be in charge of conducting and arranging New Sounds in Brass 2015, following in the footsteps of the late Naohiro Iwai.
He is the general music director, composer, arranger, and conductor for the 62nd Akita Wakasugi National Athletic Meet, the 59th National Tree Planting Festival, and the 29th National Cultural Festival.
For some reason, he graduated at the top of his class in the Department of Composition at Kunitachi College of Music, and at the top of his class in the Department of Composition at the same graduate school.He won the Excellence Award at the 23rd (Toys) and 24th (Battle Royale) Japan Academy Awards, and the 10th Academy Award for the Japan Wind Orchestra Society (composition, composition, etc.). I am working in the arranging department).
He has also provided works and co-starred with Stevie Wonder, Ofra Haza, Eikichi Yazawa, YOSHIKI, Akira Fuse, Isao Tomita, and others. Currently a specially appointed professor at Tokyo College of Music, Shobi Music College
Serves as a special lecturer.
*Guest singer: Yoko Takahashi*
1991 “P.S. I miss
You”, he made his major debut as a solo singer and won the Record Awards Newcomer Award and the Cable Awards Newcomer Award. Before making her major debut, she began working as a backing vocalist and studio musician at concerts by Toshinobu Kubota and Yumi Matsutoya in 1987.
His most famous works include the theme song “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis” for “Neon Genesis Evangelion” in 1995, and “Neon Genesis Evangelion Theatrical Version” released in 1997.
The theme song for “Shito Shinsei”, “Soul no Refran”, continues to sell well to this day. Cumulative sales total around 1.75 million copies, 7 million downloads/streaming and 120 million plays. So far, he has released 30 single CDs, 12 albums, and 8 best albums. A talented singer who energetically performs live overseas.
On December 19, 2022, the song “Teardrops of
hope” released as a digital single. Furthermore, on Sunday, May 28, 2023, Zepp Shinjuku
(TOKYO), held their first solo performance with the theme of the “Evangelion” series.
*Guest trumpet: Eric Miyashiro*
Born in a blessed musical environment with an American professional trumpeter father and a Japanese dancer/actress mother.
Born and raised in Hawaii. He started playing musical instruments in elementary school, and began playing professionally in middle school. In addition to jazz, he was active in many orchestras during his junior high and high school years, and performed in many concertos. playing, local
As a “boy genius,” he was flooded with requests to appear on TV and radio, and word spread, and in his third year of high school, he was chosen to represent Hawaii in the All-American High School All-Star Band, and performed with his idol Maynard Ferguson for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York. After graduating from high school, he received a scholarship to Boston and Berkley College of Music. (Maynard Ferguson
Scholarship), and while enrolled, he began working with teachers in studios in Boston. At the age of 22, he was invited to play lead trumpet in big bands such as Buddy Rich and Woody Herman, and toured the world for seven years. After working as a lead trumpeter for many artists,
Arrived in Japan in 1989, and immediately began working in studio recording, television, and tour support for artists, using his innate ability to read music and versatile musicality.
He is active in a wide range of fields as a wind band musician, orchestra player, school teacher, clinician, composer, arranger, and producer.
He has also appeared on many TV programs such as Untitled Concert. In 2013 “Blue Note Tokyo All Star Jazz”
He began his career as the leader/music director of “Orchestra”.
* Wind Orchestra: Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra *
(C) Takashi Iijima
The Symphonic Wind Orchestra has been affectionately known as “Shion” since its creation in 1923 (Taisho 12). In March 2015, “Osaka City Music Orchestra”
Shion Wind
Renamed to “Orchestra”. They hold concerts that everyone can enjoy, from classical to popular music, and are working hard to improve and develop musical culture through a wide range of activities such as concerts in various cities, wind band classes, and CD recordings. To date, he has won the Osaka Cultural Festival Award three times, the Japan Commercial Broadcasting Federation Award, the Japan Brass Band Academy Award for Performance, the Osaka Arts Award, and the Naniwa Grand Prize. Currently, Akira Miyagawa has been appointed as music director, and Kazuyoshi Akiyama has been appointed as artistic advisor.