Music Festival Toward the Realization of "International Peace Hiroshima-Based Concept"

 - 2016 Peace Arch Hiroshima Project -

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Thursday, July 21st 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Peace Arch Hiroshima Project Executive Committee (Executive Committee Chairperson: Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture) will hold the Music Festival “Peace Arch Hiroshima Project” for the “Realization of World Peace” declared in the “International Peace Hiroshima-Based Project.” Hiroshima’s “Message of Peace” Concerts will be held this summer with the participation of both world-famous artists and local artists from Hiroshima to send a strong message of peace through the universal language of music to the world. Images of the Requiem Concert performed on a piano that survived the atomic bomb will be delivered to the world via the world’s most-advanced 4K supported 360-degree image.

(Special Site of the Peace Arch Hiroshima Project)
http://www.peace-arch-hiroshima.net/pa16/en/index.shtml

[Project Goal]

We will hold this music festival with the goal of sending a strong message of peace from Hiroshima to the world through the universal language of music and build a mechanism that continuously supports activities contributing to peace.

[Concert Outline]

Classic Concert
Date:           July 23 (Sat)
Place:           Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen HBG Hall
Performers:           Kazuyoshi Akiyama (Conductor), Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, and others

Local Artist Concert
Date:          

August 20 (Sat)
Place:           Hiroshima Prefectural Citizen’s Culture Center
Performers:           Kenta Morimoto, Elisabeth University of Music, and others

Requiem Concert
Date:           August 22 (Mon)
Place:           In front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Performer:           Mami Hagiwara


Outline
Business Name:           Peace Arch Hiroshima Project Executive Committee
Representative:           Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
Location:           10-52, Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 730-8511 (in the prefectural office)

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Contacts

[Contact Information for Inquiries regarding this Press Release]

Hiroshima Television Corporation

Yuta Katayama, +81-82-249-1219

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