Discount tickets for Music from Japan Festival

Thursday, February 12, 7:00pm
Music From Japan Festival 2026
51st Season
Six Commissions for String Quartet 

Photo of Momenta Quartet by John Gurrin with photos of composers Michiru Nakamura and Shintaro Shibayama

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We have a "secret code" to get you all discount tickets for our Music From Japan concert!

Thursday, February 12, 7pm
Music From Japan Festival 2026 New York
MFJ Commissions for String Quartet: Past and Present
Scandinavia House, Victor Borge Hall
58 Park Avenue
New York, NY 

Admission: $35 for everyone else, but for YOU - use the code Momentous for $25 tickets. (Well - that's the students and seniors price, so, if you qualify you don't need my code, but you're still very special!) Good news: there are no added fees - it's just $25, plain and simple. But you do have to book online. The other option is $40 (cash only) at the door. Don't do that...

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Program:

Chiku Komiya For Formalistic Formal (SONATA?) Form For Four (2019)
Hikaru Hayashi Lament (1999/2000)
Shintaro Shibayama Composing as Performing, Performing as Composing No.1 (2025)*
Madoka Mori Prologue (2022)
Somei Satoh Towards the Night (1991)
Michiru Nakamura Observations of "Mora" for String Quartet (2025/2026)*
Followed by an open forum with commissioned composers and Alex Shiozaki
*MFJ commission/world premiere

If you live in or around Binghamton, New York - we are also offering a FREE concert, with 4 of the Music From Japan commissioned string quartets and two new works by SUNY Binghamton graduate student composers:
Wednesday, February 18, 5pm 
MFJ Commissions and Other Works for String Quartet
Binghamton University Art Museum
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY
Commissions for Shintaro Shibayama, Michiru Nakamura and new works by Binghamton student composers.

FREE ADMISSION

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I was amused to read this concert listing today in ODEA:

Scandinavia House/Victor Borge Hall, Murray Hill · Thurs., Feb 12, 7pm
Music From Japan has reached its 51st season, which is a pretty incredible run for an organization dedicated to music that is the antithesis of “easy listening.” This year’s residency features the Momenta Quartet--the group you hire when the score looks like a topographical map—navigating a dense landscape of six composers. 
The program is a survey of the Japanese quartet tradition, ranging from Somei Satoh’s ethereal, 1990s-era minimalism to a pair of world premieres by Shintaro Shibayama and Michiru Nakamura. It’s a three hour deep dive into the country’s most rigorous compositional minds, punctuated by a post concert forum for those needing to decompress.
Go if: you want to witness the heavyweights of contemporary music prove that the string quartet is still a radical medium.

Thank you, Owen McTigue for those wonderful words!

Music From Japan’s 51st season is made possible in part by public funds from the Japan Foundation New York, as well as support from All Nippon Airways. The Momenta Quartet's 2025/26 season is made possible through the support of the Amphion Foundation, The Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, and by the generous individual donations of our friends and audience.