Two Israeli young musicians will participate in PMF (Pacific Music Festival)

The Pacific Music Festival (PMF) is an international educational music festival founded in Sapporo, Japan in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), world-renowned conductor and composer of such works as West Side Story, along with the London Symphony Orchestra. PMF has been held in Sapporo every summer since, and now 30 years on, a cumulative total of over 3,600 talented young musicians from 77 countries and regions have participated, going on to assume crucial roles in the classical music world.

The heart of PMF is the Academy, an educational program featuring top musicians of the world as faculty, and fostering young musicians chosen through highly competitive auditions from all across the globe. For roughly 1 month each summer, these excellent young musicians, from so many different places and cultures, gather and work diligently together to create unity through the shared language of music, in the process gaining a wealth of experience and deepening international mutual understanding. These Academy members comprise the world-class PMF Orchestra, considered the premier youth orchestra in Asia, whose passionate performances never fail to inspire.

Two Israeli musicians, Lea Glubochansky (violin) and Tomer Schwartz (bass trombone), will participate in this "PMF Academy" again this year.

"Pacific Music Festival Sapporo (PMF) 2023"

◆Period July 12th (Wednesday) to August 1st (Tuesday), 2023

◆Venue: Sapporo City, Tomakomai City, Ebetsu City, Naie Town, Hakodate City, Tokyo

Schedule - Hall (Orchestra)

7/12 (Wed) start 18:30

PMF2023 Opening Night

Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (Large Hall)

♪Bernstein: "Candide" Overture etc.

7/15 (Sat) Start 17:00

PMF Orchestra Concert

Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (Large Hall)

♪Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47, etc.

7/17 (Mon) start 15:00

PMF Orchestra Tomakomai Performance

Tomakomai Civic Hall

♪Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47, etc.

7/23 (Sun) Start 18:00

PMF Host City Orchestra Concert

Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (Large Hall)

♪Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64 and others

7/30 (Sun) Start 15:30

PMF GALA Concert

Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara (Large Hall)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Completed version of the 4th movement), etc.

8/1 (Tue) Start 19:00

PMF Orchestra Tokyo Performance

Suntory Hall

♪Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Completed version of the 4th movement), etc.

―and many other events can be checked on the Official Site