by minon_admin | Sep 19, 2018 | JapanRA
October 18, 1963 marks the auspicious founding of the Min-On Concert Association.Founder Dr. Daisaku Ikeda once remarked, “What has propelled us forward, then as now, is the overriding goal to return music to the populace, to broaden a culture of humanism and to...
by minon_admin | Aug 13, 2018 | News, Outreach, Tohoku Hope Concert
The 69th Tohoku Hope Concert was held at Iwate Prefecture’s Kamaishi Shiritsu Toni Elementary and Junior High School on the July 13, 2018. Toni-cho is an outlying city about seven kilometers from Kamishi Station on the Sanriku Railway Minami-Rias Line. Nestled along...
by Peter | Mar 19, 2018 | IndonesiaRA, International Student Musical Festival, News, Outreach
Kanagawa Foreign Student Music Festival, co-sponsored by the Yokohama Arts Foundation, was held at Shintoshi Hall in the harbor city of Yokohama on December 2, 2017, marking the 4th festival held in Kanagawa prefecture. However, since the inaugural festival in 1989,...
by Peter | Dec 21, 2017 | BelgiumRA, Interviews, South AfricaRA
Dialogue Between Kazuto Ito, President of the Min-On Concert Association and Olivier Urbain, Director of the Min-On Music Research Institute President Ito: First and foremost, as newly appointed president in 2017, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my...
by Peter | Dec 21, 2017 | News, Outreach, School Concerts
The Min-On School Concert Program has a long history of cultivating schoolchildren’s emotional development through music appreciation in Japan and other countries for over 40 years. Since its inaugural concert held at the Shibetsu Middle School in a remote area of the...
