- 06/01/2022
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Dr. KAWAMURA Yasuko, a member of the HFJ Executive Committee, presented her research at the Handel International Scholarly Conference on June 1st, 2021.
On June 1st, 2021, Dr. KAWAMURA Yasuko, a member of the HFJ executive committee, presented her research at the Halle Handel International Scholarly Conference 2021 in Germany. Due to the corona disaster, the conference was held via Zoom.
Her presentation was titled “The Acceptance of Messiah in Japan”, and she clarified how Japan has become one of the world's leading lands of Messiah from the perspective of the relationship between the history of Messiah performances and the Japanese acceptance of Christmas culture.
The 25-minute presentation was followed by a Q＆A session that lasted almost the same amount of time, with several international Handel scholars asking questions one after another, indicating the high level of international interest in the hitherto unknown history of the reception of Messiah in Japan.
- 21/12/2020
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HFJ offers our warmest season's greetings, and a new project available for all:
Handel's early harpsichord works, played by Tomomi Hirano (harpsichord) Recorded on 13th November 2020, at Studio Piotita, Tokyo You can watch the project or listen to it on the following websites:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoBI2vRjYRc&t=675s
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-265824438
- 05/10/2020
- Postponement of the Performance of ‘Semele’
- 24/08/2020
- In Japan, we can’t have a concert because of the coronavirus.
So HFJ edited a remote Hallelujah, performed by HFJ’s choir, Cannons Concert Chamber Choir.
You can watch it on the following site (youtube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZv4uZVlRbE&t=238s
- 14/04/2020
- The 17th Handel Festival Japan was concluded by the performance of Handel's oratorio, Joshua.
For sample music, please click below:
Chorus: “With redoubled rage return” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
Solo and Chorus: “O thou bright orb, great ruler of the day” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
Chorus: “Hail, mighty Joshua, hail!” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
Air and Chorus: “Shall I in Mamre’s fertile plain” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
Air: “Oh! had I Jubal’s lyre” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
Chorus: “See, the conqu’ring hero comes!” From Handel’s oratorio, JOSHUA
- 19/10/2019
- The message from Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann, President of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e. V., Internationale Vereinigung (Sitz Halle)
- 01/10/2019
- Stained glass windows in St. George’s Church, Beckenham, England - ‘Joshua and the Angel’
- 04/04/2019
- The 16th Handel Festival Japan was concluded by the magnificent performance of SOLOMON.
For sample music, please click below:
Chorus: “Your harps and cymbals sound” From Handel’s oratorio SOLOMON
Chorus: “May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours” From Handel’s oratorio SOLOMON
Zadok the Priest (Encore) From Handel’s Four CORONATION ANTHEMS
Cannons Concert Chamber Choir & Orchestra
Conductor: Toshiki Misawa
- 22/02/2019
- New CD Released – Messiah the oratorio by Handel, November 2018
- 07/11/2015
- Greetings from Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann President of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e. V., Internationale Vereinigung (Sitz Halle)
- 15/09/2015
- For the previous performance of ALEXANDER’S FEAST, Handel Festival Japan won the first prize of The Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Prize for Musical Art
- 14/06/2015
- Handel Festival Japan vol.13 (HFJ 2015)
- 19/05/2014
- Handel Festival Japan vol.12 (HFJ 2014)
- 08/01/2014
- Death of Winton Dean
- 24/11/2013
- Handel Festival in Halle - 2014
- 10/11/2013
- International Handel Research Prize
- 02/11/2013
- Greetings from Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschmann President of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft e. V., Internationale Vereinigung (Sitz Halle)
