Japan America Symphony Sets New Season

Heiichiro Ohyama, music director of the Japan America Symphony, has announced the orchestra’s 1992-93 season, four concerts in downtown Los Angeles and a concert tour to Japan.

The five-perfomance trip to Japan--including concerts in Mito, Toyota City, Nagoya and Tokyo--will follow the orchestra’s opening event of the season Oct. 1 in the Japan America Theatre.

Soloist on the Rossini/Mozart/Beethoven program is pianist Shigeo Neriki, who will play the D-minor Concerto, K. 466, by Mozart.

Music by Dvorak and Haydn surround the U.S. premiere of Yutaka Takahashi’s “Furai” (Wind Chimes) for sho and chamber orchestra on the Dec. 12 concert in Japan America Theatre. Soloist will be sho-player Ko Ishikawa.

Ohyama’s Japan America Theatre show for Feb. 6 includes two short pieces by Ravel, Shoko Natsuda’s Prelude for Orchestra and Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K. 453, with Tong-Il Han as soloist.

Closing the season April 16 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at the Music Center, Ohyama will lead his ensemble in Yuzo Toyama’s “Fantazia Kyoto,” the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Wieniawski (with Tamaki Kawakubo as soloist) and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

All concerts begin at 8 p.m.

Information: (213) 489-5660.