The internationally acclaimed conductor Yutaka Sado will perform and give classes to young musicians in districts devastated by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake.
The internationally acclaimed conductor Yutaka Sado will perform and give classes to young musicians in districts devastated by the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Sado, who is the chief conductor of the Siena Wind Orchestra, will visit the area with members of the orchestra in August as part of the "memorial baton" project sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun.
Sado, 50, is scheduled to instruct high school brass band members in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 7.
On Aug. 8 and 9, he will lead the Super Kids Orchestra, with which he works as conductor and artistic director of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center, at concerts at the coast or at evacuation centers in Kamaishi and Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. He will also instruct high school students in the two municipalities.
The project is part of the Momo-Kaki Scholarship Foundation, which aims to provide scholarships to children who lost one or both parents in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The project is headed by Sado's friend, the architect Tadao Ando.
Sado achieved a lifelong ambition when he conducted the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May. He said he wanted to tell children in the disaster zone the importance of having their own dreams.