Senri Oe's Midsummer Festival 2026: 'Senri JAZZ' & Choir Collaboration Tour Announced
Jazz pianist Senri Oe will hold a nationwide Japan tour starting July 11, 2026. The tour features 'Senri JAZZ' and innovative collaborations with local choirs.
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Senri Oe will hold a tour across Japan in the summer of 2026. For Oe, who is based in New York and active worldwide as a jazz pianist, his summer Japan tour, now in its fourth year, will be an ambitious development with new attempts. Starting with the Kitakyushu performance on July 11, the 'Senri Oe Solo Concert 2026: Two Homeworks ~Strained on Black Drawing Paper~' will begin. 'Senri JAZZ,' which combines dynamism and lyricism, will resonate across major classic concert halls nationwide.
A major pillar of this tour is the co-performance with boys' and girls' choirs from various regions across the country. This summer, he will perform the gem ballad 'Two Homeworks' in collaboration with a choir for the first time. Furthermore, at the Tokyo Suntory Hall performance, a co-performance with his alma mater's Kwansei Gakuin Glee Club OB choir 'Tokyo Shingetsukai' will be realized, and at the Osaka and Ashiya performances, a co-performance with the Kwansei Gakuin Women's Glee Club will take place.
He will perform 'Poolside,' a work that spells out memories of a faint summer love. Multiple singing voices overlap the sorrowful melody, creating an expansion of timeless resonance together with Senri Oe's piano. From the 'First Generation Senri Oe,' who was active as a pop singer-songwriter, to the 'Second Generation,' who moved to the US at the age of 47 and restarted as a jazz pianist, and now to the 'Third Generation,' who freely fuses pop and jazz. The accumulation of those steps forms his current musical world.
Regarding the co-performance with the choir, Oe says, 'Every time I touch the straightforward singing voices of the children, I am confronted with the pure interest I had when I started music.' 'When the resonance of growing lives and the piano mix, a large, transgenerational breath is born.' At that moment, the venue is wrapped in deep emotion. Regarding this tour, he commented, 'I want to make it a place to expose my play with music in Brooklyn just as it is.' To the 'homework' from himself 40 years ago, his current self will write down the answer with new handwriting. The stage, where trial and error and discovery intersect, will surely be filled with 'excitement like a classroom the night before a school festival.' 'Even though it's jazz, I want you to sing, cry, and laugh like in a stadium.' His will for entertainment that transcends genres shines through. Elements of pop that he once sealed away while immersing himself in jazz. However, what remained after paring things down was 'myself who loves melodies and words.' 'I want to break the walls of genres and sound the freest notes ever.' That pure curiosity is driving the current Senri Oe. The present progressive form of a musician who continues to face endless 'homework.' That answer will be vividly drawn out in halls across Japan in the summer of 2026. General ticket sales start on April 11.
◇Performance Official Site: https://classics-festival.com/rc/performance/oe-senri-2026-summer/
◇Senri Oe Official Site: https://peaceneverdie.com/
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◇Tower Records Music Guide Media Mikiki: https://mikiki.tokyo.jp/articles/-/44591
A major pillar of this tour is the co-performance with boys' and girls' choirs from various regions across the country. This summer, he will perform the gem ballad 'Two Homeworks' in collaboration with a choir for the first time. Furthermore, at the Tokyo Suntory Hall performance, a co-performance with his alma mater's Kwansei Gakuin Glee Club OB choir 'Tokyo Shingetsukai' will be realized, and at the Osaka and Ashiya performances, a co-performance with the Kwansei Gakuin Women's Glee Club will take place.
He will perform 'Poolside,' a work that spells out memories of a faint summer love. Multiple singing voices overlap the sorrowful melody, creating an expansion of timeless resonance together with Senri Oe's piano. From the 'First Generation Senri Oe,' who was active as a pop singer-songwriter, to the 'Second Generation,' who moved to the US at the age of 47 and restarted as a jazz pianist, and now to the 'Third Generation,' who freely fuses pop and jazz. The accumulation of those steps forms his current musical world.
Regarding the co-performance with the choir, Oe says, 'Every time I touch the straightforward singing voices of the children, I am confronted with the pure interest I had when I started music.' 'When the resonance of growing lives and the piano mix, a large, transgenerational breath is born.' At that moment, the venue is wrapped in deep emotion. Regarding this tour, he commented, 'I want to make it a place to expose my play with music in Brooklyn just as it is.' To the 'homework' from himself 40 years ago, his current self will write down the answer with new handwriting. The stage, where trial and error and discovery intersect, will surely be filled with 'excitement like a classroom the night before a school festival.' 'Even though it's jazz, I want you to sing, cry, and laugh like in a stadium.' His will for entertainment that transcends genres shines through. Elements of pop that he once sealed away while immersing himself in jazz. However, what remained after paring things down was 'myself who loves melodies and words.' 'I want to break the walls of genres and sound the freest notes ever.' That pure curiosity is driving the current Senri Oe. The present progressive form of a musician who continues to face endless 'homework.' That answer will be vividly drawn out in halls across Japan in the summer of 2026. General ticket sales start on April 11.
◇Performance Official Site: https://classics-festival.com/rc/performance/oe-senri-2026-summer/
◇Senri Oe Official Site: https://peaceneverdie.com/
[Related Articles]
◇Tower Records Music Guide Media Mikiki: https://mikiki.tokyo.jp/articles/-/44591