Yuya Honda Portrait Concert
November 29 (Saturday), 2014
The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Illustrated by Yuya Honda
With his brass orchestra Chanchiki Tornado and countless collaborations with diverse talents of his generation, Yuya Honda swept through like a storm.
He was on a mission to find “music for 21st century urbanites.” Always firmly rooted in Tokyo, Honda believed that composition was to make ordinary daily objects shine like jewels. He wrote music in hopes that he could share these glittering moments with every person living in his time.2014 marks the 10th year since his passing.
Musicians from all around the world will gather at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo to revive once again the music that he has left us.
Photo by Keitaro Konuma
Yuya Honda
Honda was born in 1977 and spent his early years in Paris, studying piano while attending local schools. After returning to Japan, he started conducting for choirs, making experimental 8mm films, and joined the Chindońya music group Kingyo. In 1999, he enrolled in Tokyo University of Arts and studied composing under Kunitaka Kokaji. The same year he formed ChanchikiTornade and actively performed at live houses, various art projects and on the street. Their unique style of combining heartfelt Chindon melodies with an energetic contemporary brass ensemble quickly gained them an enthusiastic following. With this group, Honda scored music for Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1933 silent film “Minato no nihonmusume (Japanese Girl at the Harbor)” and provided live music for the cutting-edge fashion label Theater Products. Chanchiki Tornado became a sensation that everybody was talking about. For his compositions, Honda was awarded 18th Contemporary Music Young Composer’s Award, and later the 3rd Suntory Art Foundation Keizo Saji Award for a large-scale concert that he gave at the Japan Society for Contemporary Music. While making his mark with his extraordinary talent and critically acclaimed projects, Honda suddenly left us in 2004. He was 26 years old.
Program:
PART2 Machine Gun Sax for two saxophones and piano (2000)
CHING-DONG for clarinet and piano (2001)
Window shopping DUB for djembe and electronic (2001)
Circus-College for theater decoration for flute, clarinet, piano and percussion (2002) *World Premiere (Full version)
CHING-DONG No.2 for piano solo (2002) *Japan Premiere
Introduction to the special technic for two saxophones (Year unknown)
An affair from two small pieces -pray/ground, Ragtime with electric fan and typewriter- for flute solo (2002)
Three rhythm boxes for tuba and percussion (2003)
All pieces composed by Yuya Honda
Solo performance of dj sniff with motifs from music by Yuya Honda
*The program maybe subject to unannounced changes in unavoidable circumstances.
Musicians:
Flute/Junichiro Taku
Clarinet/Nashie Inoue
Saxophone/Oishi Masanori, Hiroshi Suzuki, Ryoko Egawa
Tuba/Shinya Hashimoto
Piano/Aska Iino, Kaori Ohsuga
Percussion/Rie Watanabe
Electronic & Turntable/dj sniff
Information
■November 29 (Saturday), 2014
①14:30 Start (14:00 Open) ②18:30 Start (18:00 Open)
*The concert will be held twice. (unreserved seating / no intermission)
*Duration of the program 70min.
■The Hall at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
■Fee : *Includes museum admission.
Adult 3,800 yen Student/Hara Museum member 3,500 yen
■Contact and Reservation :
Call / 03-3445-0669
Email / travelmusicaconcert@gmail.com or event@haramuseum.or.jp
*Reservation can be made by Email. The payment will be made at the museum on the day of the concert.
*For the reservation, we require your name, phone number, number of seats to be reserved, and Hara museum membership number, if applicable. The subject of the Email must be: Honda Yuya Portrait Concert from 14:30 or 18:30. We will send a confirmation Email to you with a reservation number, as soon as we process the reservation.
*If you do not receive a confirmation Email within three days, we would kindly request you to notify us again.
*You can also enjoy the exhibition with the reserved concert ticket on the day of the concert (11:00-18:30).
■Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, travel musica
■Supported by: Saito Musical Instruments Co., Ltd., Sumihisa Arima
*Please note that parking spaces will not be available at the museum on the day of the concert.