2024-01-14 – 12:00 h

UPDATE (24/2/2025): Joe Hisaishi won’t conduct his concerts in Bordeaux & Paris (read more)

UPDATE (27/2/2025): Joe Hisaishi’s official statement (read more)

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION

Famed composer of films by Hayao Miyazaki and Takeshi Kitano, Joe Hisaishi takes over the Auditorium de Bordeaux for an exceptional concert. The fairytale worlds he has created draw on the swirling orchestration of Maurice Ravel’s La Valse, which he will conduct alongside a new work for harp and orchestra, an instrument that has already been featured in Le Château dans le ciel and Mon voisin Totoro.

ARTISTS

  • Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
  • Joe Hisaishi, director
  • Barbara Dragan – directora
  • mmanuel Ceysson, harp

PROGRAM

  • Joe Hisaishi – Adagio pour deux harpes et cordes
  • Joe Hisaishi – Concerto pour harpe et orchestra – Commande Opéra National de Bordeaux, Philharmonie de Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic et Singapore Symphony
  • INTERMISSION
  • Maurice Ravel – La Valse
  • Joe Hisaishi – Suite symphonique «Kiki la petite sorcière»

CONCERTS

 

NOTE: Thursday, February 27, 19h: Meeting with Joe Hisaishi, Auditorium (Salle Dutilleux)