On February 9, concert Silent Moods – Evening of the Estonian Piano Music will be held at 7 pm at Lutheran Ichigaya Center Concert Hall in Tokyo. Pianists Takahiro Akiba and Yuko Yoshioka will perform Rudolf Tobias’s Minuet in F major, Op. 11, No. 4 (1893), Mart Saar’s Four Preludes (1908–1921), Heino Eller’s Bells (1929), Eduard Oja’s Silent Moods (1930), Eduard Tubin’s Two Preludes ETW30 (1930) and Ballade on a Theme by Mart Saar ETW40 (1945), Jaan Koha’s Rondo Aleatorica (1967), Ester Mäg’s Lapland Joik (1987), Jüri Reinvere’s Eveningat Urvaste (1987), Tõnu Kõrvits’s The Path of Winter (2004) and René Eespere’s Ludus tactus (2008).
Concert is produced by Estonian Music Project, supported by Estonian-Japanese Friendship Association and cooperated by Estonian Embassy in Tokyo, Estonian Music Information Centre and Edition 49.
Takahiro Akiba, the admirer of Estonian music, has initiated several programs in Japan where piano works by Estonian composers have been performed. His Master thesis which dealt with structure in Eduard Tubin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 were the first Japanese scientific research about Estonian music. Akiba has published several articles, e. g. about Urmas Sisask’s Starry Sky Cycle in Japanese music magazine Musica Nova (2008). In 2010, Takahiro Akiba gave a concert at Heino Eller Music School Concert Hall in Tartu, Estonia, performing also works by Estonian composers. In preparations for the concert program on February 9, Akiba spent in Estonia to study Estonian piano music. He is a member of International Eduard Tubin Society and Estonian-Japanese Friendship Association.
Agnes Toomla