27.02.2020
Great news for fans of Japanese culture: the famous Japanese ensemble “HIDExHIDE” returns to Russia with a big tour after an eight-year break!
The team will perform unique programs in Moscow, Belgorod, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Sovetsk and Perm.
The initiative of the tour belongs to a close friend and partner of Mesopharm LLC, Tatyana Naumova, who has been working with musicians since the very beginning of the project's cooperation with Russia. Tatyana Naumova, a professional Japanese orientalist and a translator, accompanies the concert performance with a story about interesting facts from the life of the group, and provides interactive communication between the musicians and the audience.
A journalist from “Musical Klondike” talked to Tatyana about the peculiarities of Japanese musical culture, about cooperation with Vera Tariverdiyeva, and about the secret of HIDExHIDE’s success in Russia: READ AN INTERVIEW.
The HIDExHIDE tour was fully supported by the Japan Foundation. The project was included in the list of official events of the Year of Japanese-Russian Interregional and Twinning Exchanges 2020-2021.
The performers consider themselves as a part of a new musical direction, which means the concept of the development of national musical traditions in the modern world.
If you want to get more information about the musicians, read the interview of the information agency “Musical Klondike” about the band, the tour plan and the concert program:
HIDExHIDE:Return to Russia
HIDExHIDE: Return to Russia Part 2
In Moscow, the musicians will perform on March 2 in the updated program “West meets East” with their friend, pianist Junichi Wakimaru.
Junichi Wakimaru is a well-known Japanese musician, the author of many piano arrangements for HIDExHIDE, who skillfully combines the creative career of a performer and a composer in his work.
Both original author’s works and adaptations of traditional melodies popular in Japan, as well as arrangements of works of Russian and European classics – music by Grieg, Handel, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, that are loved by the Russian public, will be performed. Of course, the musicians will again perform works by their favorite Soviet composer Mikael Tariverdiev and new works of their own composition.
Tickets for the concert in Moscow can be purchased at the box office of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory or on the website
mosconsv.ru
The full schedule of performances of the Japanese ensemble “HIDExHIDE” on tour in Russia from February 27 to March 11:
- February 29, 17:00 – performance of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” at the opening of the festival “Borislav Strulev and Friends” on the stage of the Belgorod State Philharmonic Society (56A, Belgorodskogo Polk Street, Belgorod).
- March 2, 19:00 – concert of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” and pianist Junichi Wakimaru (program “West meets East”) in theI. Arkhipova Concert Hall (Moscow, Bryusov Lane, 21/14, building 8).
- March 4, 19:00 – concert of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” and pianist Junichi Wakimaru with the participation of the folk music ensemble “Solncevorot” (program “West meets East”) in the Russian House Concert Hall of the Vologda State Philharmonic Society (Vologda, Pushkinskaya Street, 25, building 2).
- March 7, 18:00 – concert of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” and organist Hiroko Inoue (program “Moments of Spring”) at the Immanuel Kant Cathedral (Kant Street, 1, Kaliningrad).
- March 8, 15:00 – concert of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” and the Kaliningrad Regional Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments (program ”West meets East”) in the concert hall “Tilzit-theater” (Sovetsk, Teatralnaya Street, 5).
- March 10, 19:00 – concert of the ensemble “Hide-Hide” and organist Hiroko Inoue (program “West meets East”) on the stage of the Perm Regional Philharmonic (Kuybysheva Street, 14, Perm).
See you at the concert!
