Ongaku no Kakehashi is a non-profit organization that conducts activities with the aim of supporting young musicians and promoting international music exchange. He performs under the names "Orchestra Knot" and "Ensemble Knot".
2023.2.28 The website of NPO Ongaku no Kakehashi has been released.
2023.2.28 Past concert information has been released. Click here for past concert informationClick here for past concert videos
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2023.2.28 Greetings from President Masaru Takahashi has been posted. Greetings from the President
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Announcements
On April 9, 2023, the 5th Orchestra Knot concert will be held at Tiara Koto Large Hall from 14:00 (doors open at 13:00). Under the direction of Mr. Hiroo Yamagami, a promising young stock that is on sale to great acclaim, we will send you the Czech program. We will send you an overture from Smetana's representative opera "The Sold Bride", Dvořák's Cello Concerto with cello solo by young promising cellist Ryu Yamamoto, and Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World", which is a masterpiece among the famous pieces. Tickets can be purchased from Teketo and Ticket Pia. We hope you will come and support the young musicians.
Profile of Hiroo Yamakami Born in Miyazaki. Started playing the piano at the age of 4 under Kikuko Ogura, and violin under Riko Mukai and Seto Eiko. Winner of the 9th Japan Musicians Competition Special Prize in the String Instrument Category. Began studying conducting at the age of 17. After graduating from Saitama Prefectural Urawa High School, he entered the conducting department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied under Ken Takaseki and Kazufumi Yamashita. He received the "Ryohei Miyata Scholarship" while still a student, the Acanthus Music Award, the Doshokai Award, and the Wakasugi Hiroshi Memorial Fund Award upon graduation. He is currently enrolled in the master's program of the Graduate School of Music. He passed the Japan Steel Cultural Foundation's 2021 Young Conductor Development Support System, and is studying with the Kioi Hall Chamber Orchestra. Since October 2021, he has been a conducting researcher with the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ryu Yamamoto's Profile Born June 11, 1996. He has been familiar with children's choir and piano since childhood and began playing the cello at the age of six. Since 2006, he has been enrolled in the Russian Higher School of Music of Sakha. In 2009, he entered the Central Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory, Russia. Graduated from the Department of Instrumental Music at Tokyo College of Music in 2020. From 2020, he took a non-degree course at the Liszt Conservatory in Hungary for two years. In 2008, he won the highest prize in the junior cello section of the International Mravinsky Competition (St. Petersburg). Highest prize at the Vladivostok International Festival in 2008. He studied cello with Olga Koshereeva, Igor Gavrsi, Minori Yamazaki, Yoshifumi Ariizumi, Dmitry Feigin and Ontsai Chaba. He has given master classes with Anatoly Nikitin, Maria Tchaikovskaya, Louis Claret, Unfi Mun, Ludvito Kanta and Miklós Pereni.
August 19, 2023 At the Tiara Koto Large Hall, it has been decided to send Puccini's representative opera "La Bohème" in a concert format. It has been decided that the chorus and solo singing will be asked to the professional organization "Teatro al Cioccolate", which is engaged in opera activities in Tokyo. I have decided to ask Mr. Jun Iisaka, who is serving as an assistant conductor at the New National Theatre of Japan, to conduct the conductor. We will announce the details as soon as they are decided.
April 6, 2024 It has been decided to hold a special Japanese-German music exchange concert at the Katsushika Symphony Hills Mozart Hall, welcoming volunteers of the Mendelssohn Ensemble, which is active mainly in Berlin, Germany, with the cooperation of the professional group "Teatro al Cioccolate" that is engaged in opera activities in Tokyo. The program is tentative, and is scheduled to be Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 "Hymn". Please look forward to it. We will also announce when the details are decided.