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The earliest and most convenient way to purchase tickets!
- Advance reservation of tickets for members
of “PMF Friends 2016” -
“PMF Friends” is a supporter system, where members can help support young musicians (PMF Academy members), as well as enjoy concerts. Members can enjoy the benefits of advance reservation/discounted tickets, prior entry to outdoor concerts and various perks offered by our business partners.
The earliest and most convenient way to purchase tickets is to utilize advance reservation services as a member of PMF Friends.
Annual membership fee: 3,000 yen (tax included)
Membership period: April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017
Application period: February 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016
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What was your impression of PMF when you passed the audition and attended the event as an Academy member, and what do you remember the most about your time at PMF?
It was a dream-like music festival, where I could learn a lot of things from great conductors, such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Christoph Eschenbach, as well as from principal players of the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
I was deeply impressed by the enthusiastic audience, who earnestly listened to our performances even when it was unfortunately raining on the day when the outdoor concert was held. |
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A quarter-century after the founding of PMF in 1990, there are over 3,200 alumni worldwide. What impact does PMF have on your current musical life?
I could gain valuable experience living for more than a month under the same roof with players from various countries to create music together. Players from different countries took different approaches to music, which was very insightful for me.
I had the pleasure of participating in PMF three times from 1995 to 1997. The experience I had in the PMF Orchestra made me want to have opportunities to perform in orchestras with players from various countries. I joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and I was overwhelmed with emotion when I could join the PMF International Orchestra (consisting of the alumni that participated in the tenth anniversary music festival in 1999). I really feel proud when players from all over the world say the PMF is such a nice place to play. I strongly believe that this is the result of the concerted efforts made by the PMF Organizing Committee that hosts and manages the music festival and the hard-working volunteers in the community. |
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PMF will continue to foster young musicians and offer the inspirational power of music to a broad, global audience, inheriting founder Leonard Bernstein's vision, contributing to the classical music culture of the world, and thereby to world peace. What kind of festival would you like to see it become?
PMF, which people in Hokkaido have earnestly supported, is showing its significance by producing a lot of professionals. I would like to extend my best wishes for the PMF's continuing success. |
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Tomoko Tanaka
Tomoko Tanaka, who is from Kumamoto Prefecture, started playing the violin at the age of four and won the highest award in the student music competition hosted by the Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun at the age of seven. She has also been awarded the Western Japan Rising Star Music Award, as well as winning the first prize in the New World Symphony Competition in America, which gave her the opportunity to perform with the Symphony.
After graduating from the Faculty of Music, Aichi University of the Arts, she went on to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and its graduate school. She played as an associate concertmaster in the New World Symphony, where Michael Tilson Thomas acts as a music director.
She participated as a member of the PMF Academy for three years starting in 1995 and acted as a concertmaster in the PMF Orchestra in PMF 1997.
She also gave solo recitals and chamber music concerts in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, America and Italy.
Currently, she is a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
In Hong Kong, she produced a charity concert for the families of victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She has also participated in charitable activities for the disabled, such as charity concerts.
She has studied violin under Masuko Ushioda, Koichiro Harada, Yoshitake Shindo, Marylou Speaker Churchill and Pinchas Zukerman.
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Leisure time
I love walking and hiking with my pet dog Kenta (a Chow Chow).
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