At the invitation of the Wiener Festwochen, director Toshiki Okada and composer Dai Fujikura, both world-renowned in their respective disciplines, are working together for the first time, exploring a new form of musical theatre.

Heiner Goebbels has been awarded the GEMA’s Music Authors’ Prize. The Music Pen Club Japan awarded the prize for the “contemporary music” category to Dai Fujikura.

On November 14th 2020, Dai Fujikura’s third opera A Dream of Armageddon was premiered at the New National Theatre in Toyko. The production united an international team around librettist Harry Ross, director Lydia Steier and conductor Kazushi Ono, who brought the work to the stage under exceptional circumstances.

In our video, composer Dai Fujikura introduces his concerto "Akiko's Piano" and the very special story that inspired him. The world premier takes place on August 5th, 2020 at ”An Evening of Peace Concert” held by Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra as a commemoration to the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima's atomic bombing tragedy.

Always an energetic and prolific artist, Dai Fujikura has had an active summer. We look back at his five most exciting events of the past few months.

Out of his fascination with microorganisms and inspired by their world, Dai Fujikura has created a new work for orchestra in which free-floating sounds awaken the impression of microbes flying about – the work itself becomes a “microorganism orchestra”, as Fujikura describes it.