New Sounds In Brass 2020 Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra & Masamicz Amano

• 1Beethoven Pops Symphony06:19
• 221st Century Schizoid Man06:58
• 3Pomp And Circumstance04:08
• 4Avengers: Endgame04:18
• 5Mulan Medley07:54
• 6Frozen II Medley07:38
• 7Yoko Kanno Anime Medley06:50
• 8Official HIGE DANdism Medley06:44
• 9My Ballade04:28
• Total Runtime55:17

Info for New Sounds In Brass 2020

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra - New Sounds In Brass. The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is a professional concert band. It is widely considered as one of the world's finest, only to be rivaled by the Dallas Wind Symphony in the recent years.

TKWO was established in 1960 by the lay Buddhist organization Rissho Kosei Kai at its headquarters in central Tokyo. Originally known as the Tokyo Kosei Symphonic Band, it was renamed in 1973 to reflect its growing professionalism and scale of activities. TKWO Is highly active, both within Japan and abroad, as a professional touring and recording ensemble. Its members include some of the finest woodwind, brass, and percussion players in Japan.

From 1984 to 1996 the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra was directed by renowned American maestro Frederick Fennell, and as of December 2014 is directed by Takeshi Ooi. TKWO has released more professional recordings than any other wind orchestra in the world, numbering in the hundreds of album titles. It has also played an active role in the commissioning of original works for wind band by both Japanese and foreign composers. Japanese composers whose works have been championed by TKWO include Yasuhide Ito, Hiroshi Hoshina, Tetsunosuke Kushida, Akira Miyoshi, Michio Mamiya, Bin Kaneda, Masamichi Amano, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshio Mashima, Isao Matsushita, and many others. Guest conductors of TKWO have included Alfred Reed, Donald Hunsberger, Arnald Gabriel, Robert Jager, Ray Cramer, Craig Kirchhoff, and Václav Blahunek.

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
Masamicz Amano, conductor

Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
Originally founded in May 1960 as the Tokyo Kosei Symphonic Band affiliated with the lay-Buddhist organization Rissho Kosei-kai, theTokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (TKWO) has performed under their current name since 1973. Having Frederick Fennell as its Conductor Laureate, the TKWO appointed, in January 2014, Takeshi Ooi to be Conductor, Koichi Fujino to be Music Advisor and Thomas Sanderling to be Principal Guest Conductor. Previous conductors have included Yasuhiko Shiozawa, Masato Usuki, Tetsusaburo Hirai, Douglas Bostock and Paul Meyer.

From 1970s, when instrumental wind music tended to be associated with marching bands, to today, the TKWO has actively collaborated with distinguished conductors international as well as national, to enlighten people to the kind of “wind ensemble” that Frederick Fennell, who developed the TKWO, had advocated. For the past subscription concerts, the TKWO performed under the batons of Kazuo Yamada, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Michiyoshi Inoue, Ryusuke Numajiri, Kazufumi Yamashita, Ichiro Saito and Tatsuya Shimono, and others. These years, the orchestra has also invited conductors also notable in the classical music world such as Taijiro Iimori, Norichika Iimori, Radomil Eliška, Kazumasa Watanabe, Kentaro Kawase, Shizuo Z. Kuwahara, and more. Each subscription concert, which focuses on building appreciation of the genre, has earned plenty of acclaim.

As for activities abroad, from the first tour in Europe in 1989 to the concert held in Taiwan in 2011, the TKWO has toured overseas eight times.

In recent years, the TKWO holds, as a new project with its Music Advisor Koichi Fujino, a series of concerts entitled "Entertainment Concerts". Having invited prestigious singers such as Ryoko Moriyama, Hiromi Iwasaki, Junko Yagami, Shigeru Matsuzaki, amongst others, the project has fascinated numerous audiences.

The TKWO has often performed on TV and radio shows. Its recent appearances include the Japanese TV programs such as Untitled Concert (TV Asahi Corporation Network), La La La Classic and Classic Club (NHK TV) and the radio show The Sound of the Wind Ensemble (NHK FM radio). Since 2013, the TKWO has been participating in the "Flowers Will Bloom" charity song project, a part of NHK's TOMORROW series to support reconstruction efforts in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Also, the very popular annual New Year Hakone Ekiden marathon relay race's theme music, performed by the TKWO, contributes to the lively atmosphere of this television broadcast event.

The TKWO actively records and releases CDs. In the last few years, the orchestra has released its recordings on labels such as NIPPON COLUMBIA, UNIVERSAL MUSIC JAPAN, KING RECORDS, Victor Entertainment, avex-CLASSICS, BRAIN MUSIC, and more. The TKWO is the winner of the 51st Record Academy Award 2013.

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