Symposium: Kikuko Kanai and her World

Dates
01 July 2024, 10:00am

Venue
The Carne Room

Tickets
£5

01 July 2024, 10:00am

Venue
The Carne Room

Tickets
£5

The RCM’s Dr Maiko Kawabata is undertaking groundbreaking research on the music of Japanese
composer Kikuko Kanai (1906–86), one of the first women to compose Western classical music in Japan.

This study day presents Kanai’s music in the context of the Okinawan folk music that inspired it, involving talks from leading experts and a workshop-performance from the London Okinawa Sanshinkai group.

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Turangalîla at the Royal Festival Hall 

The Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, led by acclaimed conductor Jac van Steen, perform Messiaen’s epic masterpiece Turangalîla-symphonie at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday 1 May, 7.30pm.

Join us for this special event, featuring RCM pianist Thomas Kelly as soloist and Imsu Choi on the ondes Martenot.

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