Pacific Music Festival 2022 conducted by Lahav Shani (Music Director of IPO)

The Pacific Music Festival (PMF) is an international educational music festival, fostering young musicians from across the globe, founded in Sapporo, Japan in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), world-renowned conductor and composer of such works as “West Side Story.”

In 2022, the festival will hold a concert in Tokyo for the first time in 3 years.

Gifted young conductor Lahav Shani, Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, will present the powerful and youthful music of the PMF Orchestra. Makoto Ozone, one of the leading pianists in Japan, will perform as soloist. The PMF Orchestra Concert in Tokyo represents the grand culmination of PMF 2022!

■ PMF 2022 Event Outline

Title: Pacific Music Festival 2022 in Sapporo (PMF 2022)

Duration: 18 days, from Saturday, July 16 to Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Venues: Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara, Sapporo Art Park, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), and more

Principal Conductor: Lahav Shani

Guest Conductor: Ken-David Masur

■ PMF Orchestra Concert in Tokyo

Date and Time: Tuesday, August 2 at 19:00

Venue: Suntory Hall

Artists:

Principal Conductor Lahav Shani (Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)

Piano: Makoto Ozone

Orchestra: PMF Orchestra

【Program】

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73, and more

https://www.pmf.or.jp/