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PROFILES OF THE GUESTS●Festival／Music“Music Weeks in TOKYO”, Chorus Master

Roberto Gabbiani
The Teatro Regio di Torino, Chorus MasterMr. Roberto Gabbiani received his diploma in pianoforte andcomposition from the “Luigi Cherubini” Conservatory in Florence.
From 1990 to 2002 Maestro Gabbiani was called by Riccardo Muti todirect the Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, where he also
conducted the Orchestra and Philharmonic Chorus of La Scala. He
successfully presented the annual commission of a choral composition,
conducting the world premières. Until now, he collaborated with theworld renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber,and Lorin Maazel, gaining enormous credibility with them. In July
2008 he was named Chorus Master of the Teatro Regio di Torino.
●Festival, Kids／Traditional Performing Art“Tokyo Traditional Arts Program” Executive Committee, Chair

Man Nomura
Noh actor (Important intangible cultural property holder)Japan Council of Performers' Organizations, Chairman

In 1997, Mr. Nomura received the honor of designation as an
Important Intangible Cultural Property (a “living national treasure”),
as the greatest figure in the representational art form of Japan,Kyōgen. Born Tarō Nomura, the oldest son and apprentice of thelate sixth-generation ManzōNomura (also a “living nationaltreasure”). 1956, his nōgaku group has taken part in a multitude of
public performances abroad, introducing kyōgen to wide audiences
overseas and striving for its popularization. Today, in addition to hisbusy engagements with the stage, he commits himself to rearing the younger
generation and devotes his energy to the advancement and development of culture andthe performing arts, as chairman of the Japan Council of Performers’ Organizations.
Awards and recognitions received include, among others, the Purple Ribbon Medal,
Member of the Japan Art Academy, and Person of Cultural Merit.
●Tokyo Artpoint Project／Art program“Tokyo in Progress”

Tadashi Kawamata
ArtistMr. Kawamata, born in 1953, is an artist and a professor at the École
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He started working as an artist in 1977 and was selected forparticipation as an artist in the Venice Biennale at a young age of 28.
Since, he has participated in the “documenta” and has constantly
won international acclaim in Europe and the U.S. Moving beyond the existing context ofart, he developed a unique methodology of art production called “work in progress”. His
activities encompass architecture, urban planning, history, sociology, communication,and healthcare.
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●Festival／Theater“Festival/Tokyo”, Program Director

Chiaki Soma
NPO Arts Network Japan©Nobuyuki Kagamida

Born in 1975. After graduating from Waseda University, Ms.
Soma took a postgraduate degree at the Lyon Lumiere
University in France. She has been working for the Art
Network Japan since 2002. In 2006 she founded the “SteepSlope Studio”, where she is currently the representativedirector. From 2007 to 2010 she was an invited lecturer of theGlobal COE (Educational Program supported by TheatreMuseum) of the Waseda University. After having held theposition as the program director of the 2008 Tokyo
International Arts Festival, she is assigned the same position
at Festival/Tokyo.

In my view, F/T gives us the opportunity to scrutinize what is “immediately before our eyes”
and produce something. We could simply use the term “expression”, but it actually requires
a lot of effort to confront the reality, find the necessary approach to an act by trial and error,and present a work or an act for all to see. We could say that F/T is a gathering of a numberof people who gave this effort. And I hope that we can share with the people who gather at
F/T the extraordinary joy and new discoveries that await at the end of all these efforts.

●Festival／Arts, Film

“Roppongi Art Night” Committee, Secretary General

Takashi Takemura
After working for a production company, Mr. Takemura
joined Mori Bldg. Ryutsu System Co., Ltd. in 1989, where hehas been involved in the planning and production of eventsand management of halls in Laforet Museum. He wasadditionally assigned to Mori Building Co., Ltd.’s Town
Management Department in 2004, where he has beenworking for the planning and production of various events
held in the Roppongi Hills Arena in the Roppongi Hills
complex.
The second Roppongi Art Night was even more successful than last year’s. Watching thevisitors mirthfully promenade about the city as a greater number of them kept pouring in as
the night wore on, I had a sense that the “one-night city festival of art” had already captured
the minds of a large number of people.

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●Festival／Arts, Film

“Tokyo Art Meeting „Transformation‟ ”“Trans-Cool TOKYO Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection”

Yuko Hasegawa
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT), Chief CuratorMs. Hasegawa is a Chief Curator of the Museum ofContemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) and also a professor of theDepartment of Art Science, Tama Art University in Tokyo. She
was a Founding Artistic Director of 21st Century Museum ofContemporary Art, Kanazawa. Since 2001, she serves as anInternational Arts Advisory Council for the Wexner Center forthe Arts. And from 2008 she is the member of Asian Art Councilat Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (US), the board member ofthe West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (HK), and theArtistic Director of Inujima House Project (JP).
Tokyo Art Meeting is a project in which expressions in a variety of genres and fields ofspecialization meet through the medium of art. In the first Tokyo Art Meeting on the themeof transformation, we explore the human potential for visualization and imagination withanthropologists.

●Festival／Art, Film

“Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions”

Michiko Kasahara
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Chief Curator
Ms. Kasahara, born in 1957, served as the chief curator of TokyoMetropolitan Museum of Photography from 1989 to 2002. After
working as the curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo(2002–2006), she was appointed to the current post in 2006.
Exhibitions she organized include “Ishiuchi Miyako, Mother’s
2000–2005, Traces of the Future”, in the role of commissioner ofthe Japanese pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005, and“On your body, Japanese contemporary photography” (Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2008).

Yebisu International Festival for Arts & Alternative Visions is a festival of art and visualimages based in Yebisu for all of the world to see. Instead of restricting ourselves in how wedefine visual images, we will attempt to redefine the diverse forms of expression andreception of visual images. The works are displayed in a multistratified manner within theTokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and visitors will discover various forms ofartistic expressions of visual images originating in a high-quality world. I hope many people
will come and visit the festival.

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●Kids／Theater“Performance Kids Tokyo”

Yasuhiko Tsutsumi
NPO Children Meet Artists, Representative
In 2000, Mr. Tsutsumi launched the ASIAS (Artist’s Studio In ASchool) project in which contemporary artists are sent toprimary schools to hold workshops for students. The project wasawarded the Asahi Breweries Arts Award in 2003. Based inNishi-Sugamo Arts Factory in a former school in Toshima, Tokyo,
he is currently promoting kids’ projects in two fields of school
education and community building.
New expressions are created when contemporary artists on the cutting edge of dance,theater, and music come face to face with kids who hold the future in their hands. We willhold workshops to bring out kids’ creativity, diversity, and intercommunication, and create
original theater productions. Kids are in the main cast, but that does not mean we will not
be bringing out authentic productions. We need to convey to today’s city kids what real,
physical artistic expressions mean!

●Kids／Music“Music & Rhythms TOKYO KIDS”, Secretary General

Kimihiro Kitamura
NPO Bamboo Orchestra, Chief Director
Mr. Kitamura participated in all of the activities since theestablishment of Bamboo Orchestra, and successfully turned it
into an official Nonprofit Organization at the beginning of 2004.
He also plays traditional Japanese instruments. Finished mastercourse of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Always thinking about Bamboo Orchestra’s future and realizing
their dreams. Grateful of having the opportunity to meet many
people through their activities!
The intense look on children’s faces as they cut bamboo sticks to make their original musicalinstruments and the smile they show when they have completed always fill me with newstrength. And the music they play with their instruments is their unique music that no one
can copy. I am constantly enthralled by their power. The future of this country is bright! Join
us and play your music in Tomin Hiroba.

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●Kids／Theater“TACT／FESTIVAL”

Hiroshi TakahagiTokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Vice Director
As a university student, Mr. Takahagi participated in thefoundation of the theatrical company Yume no Yuminsha.
After leaving the company, he was involved in themanagement of Japan Festival 1991 in the U.K., Tokyo
Theater Fair, and Tokyo International Arts Festival. After
serving as manager of the Panasonic Globe Theater and as
director of the production department of Setagaya Public
Theater, he was appointed to the current post. He is also avisiting professor at Tama Art University.
We have chosen productions that underscore the theatrical characteristic of allowing “artistsand audience to share the same space and time”. They include the Theatre Arts for Childrenand Teens Festival (TACT ／ FESTIVAL) for families, the works of young Japanese
dramatists with potential international appeal, a joint production between young Thai andJapanese theatrical companies, and The Blue Dragon directed by Robert Lepage of Canada
as part of their world tour. These are works that come from all over the world and works ofthose in the theater who are about to expand their horizons to the rest of the world.

●Kids／Music“Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Open Rehearsal for Students”

Tatsuaki Matsumoto
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Vice Director
Mr. Matsumoto was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1952.
After graduating from a university and working in a privatecompany, he joined the Tokyo Metropolitan Government(TMG) in 1979. From 1990 to 1992, he worked in TMG’s Paris
office. He was appointed the vice director of Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan in 2007. In the same year, he was also appointed themanaging director of the Association of Public Theaters andHalls in Japan.
Our program offers young people the chance to encounter and experience the world’s highest
standard of art. In this second year, the number of applicants and audience is increasing at afaster pace than last year. Many of our participants have shown interest in participating
again and would like to see an increase in the number of these programs.
This year, our programs will feature the world’s celebrated companies, including The Royal
Ballet, The Royal Opera, and The Australian Ballet. We hope that the encounter withgenuine art will lead to the future creation and dissemination of art and culture.

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●Tokyo Artpoint Project
Art Program／Human Resourses Program“TERATOTERA” “Tokyo Art Research Lab”

Nozomu Ogawa
Art Center Ongoing, DirectorMr. Ogawa established the art complex Art Center Ongoing inKichijoji, Tokyo, to constantly break existing barriers in culture
and present new creations to the world. He is currently therepresentative of the art complex. He is also the chief director ofthe TERATOTERA art project, which is being carried out in thearea between Koenji Station and Kichijoji Station on the JR line.

TERATOTERA is an encounter with the community, while Art Project 0123 is an encounter
with undiscovered talent. We hope that the two projects will work in concert to propel Tokyo
into a new, unexplored dimension.

●Tokyo Artpoint Project／Art Program

The House of Atreus, Sumida-ku, Tokyo.

(“Bokuto Machimise 2010”）

Kaku Nagashima
Mixt Media ProductAs one of the few dramaturges in Japan, Mr. Nagashima is
responsible for creation of the concepts of plays and theediting and composition of scripts, a role dealing with words
as they relate to the actors’ physical presence and voice. He
has translated the plays of Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane,and Jon Fosse, and has worked with various directors andtheatrical companies. In February 2010, he directed Electra
in a house in Yanaka, Tokyo.

Fiction has the power to make us oblivious to reality as well as the power to make us see
reality more clearly. The idea that characters in a Greek tragedy would take abode in
Sumida is obviously fictional. Nevertheless, what does this unlikely combination has toshow us? I look forward to promoting this project with the local community.

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