[Ai Plan Co., Ltd.] Recruiting brass players for “2025 Ai Plan Love & Thanks Concert”
*Ai Plan Co., Ltd.*
Press release: September 4, 2024
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Recruiting brass players for “2025 Ai Plan Love & Thanks Concert” *We are looking for soloists who want to play a concerto with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra at the “Love & Thanks Concert” sponsored by Ai Plan Co., Ltd. We are recruiting brass players for 2025. * *
“Love & Thanks Concert” is held every year by Ai Plan Co., Ltd. (Sapporo City, Hokkaido). We are looking for brass players to perform at our 2025 concert. The first application deadline is October 31st (Thursday). *
Ai Plan Co., Ltd. holds the “Love & Thanks Concert” every year. It is scheduled to be held on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara Large Hall.
We are looking for a brass player living in Hokkaido to perform a concerto with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra for this concert. If you would like to participate, please check the outline below and apply.
Please check below for the latest information.
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Purpose
In Hokkaido, even if you have spent many years studying music, it is not easy to perform professionally, and it is especially difficult for freelance performers to continue holding recitals and other
independent concerts. It takes effort.
In order to encourage musicians who have accumulated such experience, we will provide an opportunity to perform together with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra (performing a concerto). This time, we are looking for musicians who are active as brass players.
Application requirements
* Applicable musical instruments: * Trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba
* Eligibility: * Brass players (trumpet and
Horn, trombone, tuba) who have already performed in recitals. Those who are interested in performing the concerto at the Love & Thanks Concert to be held on September 17, 2025 (excluding those currently affiliated with a professional symphony orchestra).
*Performance concerto candidates:*
[Trumpet] Hummel/Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Haydn/Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Arutunian/Trumpet Concerto
[Horn] Mozart/Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Mozart/Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, R. Strauss/Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major
[Trombone] F. David/Concertino for trombone
E flat major, L. Grendal/Trombone Concerto, Rimsky-Korsakov/Trombone Concerto [Tuba] Vaughan Williams/Tuba Concerto, E. Gregson/Tuba Concerto
* How to apply: *
1. First round of application: [How to apply] Write your name, age, career history, address, telephone number, email address, and the song you would like to perform, and apply by mail or using the special form.
[Deadline] October 31, 2024 (Thursday)
2. Second round of application: [How to apply] Send a DVD or USB recording of the performance of all movements of the selected piece by mail (the orchestral part will be accompanied by piano).
[Deadline] January 31, 2025 (Friday)
* Selection Committee: * Hiroshi Miura (Hokkaido University of Information Professor, music critic)
* Selection results: * All will be notified by the end of March 2025
* Performance fee: * 300,0000 yen (if there are multiple performers, the fee will be divided among the number of performers)
* Supervisor/Application address: * Ai Plan Love & Thanks Concert Office, 12-1 Minami 2-jo Nishi 8-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0062 TEL:
080-8628-6373 (Reception hours/Weekdays 9:00-18:00, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays)
What is “Love & Thanks Concert”?
This concert is held with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Hokkaido’s only professional orchestra, which is supported by Ai Plan.
Through support of the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, we support the spread and development of classical music in Hokkaido.
In 2024, we will once again welcome Mr. Yukio Fujioka, who is a guest performer with famous major orchestras, as a conductor, and we will send the performance together with Mr. Momone Onodera, a violinist living in Hokkaido.
2024 Love & Thanks Concert Overview
* Ai Plan Presents “Love & Thanks Concert” 2024*
Date and time: Thursday, September 19, 2024 Doors open at 18:00 / Start at 19:00 Venue: Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara Large Hall
Performers: [2024 Love & Thanks Concert Soloist] Violin Onodera Hyakuon [Conductor] Yukio Fujioka [Orchestra] Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
Program: [Part 1] Mozart/“The Marriage of Figaro” Overture,
Mendelssohn/Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64
[Part 2] Brahms/Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op.68
Seats: All seats reserved / S seat 2,000 yen (tax included) / A seat 1,000 yen (tax included)
*Available at the Kitara Ticket Center or the concert office. Capacity: Total 2,000 people (S seat 1,000 people / A seat 1,000 people) Sponsored by: Sapporo City/Sapporo City Board of Education
*●Inquiry*
Ai Plan Love & Thanks Concert Office
TEL: 080-8628-6373 (Reception hours: 9:00-18:00 on weekdays, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays)
060-0062 Minami 2-jo Nishi 8-12-1, Chuo-ku, Sapporo
*The secretariat does not sell tickets over the phone.
Please see the page below for information on how to purchase tickets and the latest information.
https://www.apg-aiplan.com/news/single/25333
Company Profile
*Ai Plan Co., Ltd.*
Founded in 1963 in Sapporo. We are striving to improve and develop services related to ceremonial occasions, centering on a membership system that allows you to prepare step by step for ceremonies that come in your life, such as weddings and funerals.
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