On June 17, 2024, the MÁV Symphony Orchestra will embark on a three-week tour in Japan with Ken'ichiro Kobayashi.
The concert tour will consist of 13 stops, starting in Tokyo, continuing in Osaka, Iwaki, Tokorozawa, Musashino, Yamagata, Omiya, Matsuyama, Takamatsu, Kanazawa, then finally concluding in Tokyo. Among the excellent concert halls, our orchestra will perform in Suntory Hall, Morioka, Nagoya and Fenice Sakai.
During the tour, the orchestra will perform at 10 venues under the baton of Ken'ichiro Kobayashi, with the following program:
Rossini: The Barber of Seville – overture
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S.124
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, and Symphony No. 5
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9
Guest musician: Masaya Kamei on piano, winner of the Long–Thibaud–Crespin International Competition in 2022.
On three occasions, the ensemble will perform under the baton of the renowned Slovak conductor Mário Košík, who has regularly collaborated with several Japanese orchestras since 2020, notably the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, but has also conducted foreign ensembles in Japan on numerous occasions.
The program of the evenings he conducts:
Brahms: Hungarian Dances No. 1 and Hungarian Dances No. 5
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 - with Masaya Kamei on piano
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
It is an honour for the MÁV Symphony Orchestra to return to the great cities of the "Land of the Rising Sun" this year, after its last highly successful tour in Japan in 2019, under the baton of the 84-year-old Maestro and with the young talented pianist Masaya Kamei.
