2025/01/11

• The 2025 All Japan Band Competition Required Pieces digest version has been released!

  

  2025/01/11

  Technics launches the EAH-AZ100, the industry's first fully wireless earphone with a ‘magnetic fluid driver’. Thanks to Technics' unique acoustic technology cultivated over many years, this earphone delivers a new dimension of high sound quality and realism. The ergonomic ‘ConchaFit shape’ provides a comfortable fit and also features industry-leading noise-cancelling performance. In addition, call quality and immersion are enhanced with AI-based ‘Voice Focus AI’ and ‘spatial audio’ support. It also supports the latest Bluetooth standard, LE Audio.
  
  Technics / EAH-AZ100

• The 2025 All Japan Band Competition Required Pieces digest version has been released!

  

  2025/01/11

  The digest version of the 2025 All Japan Band Competition Required Pieces has been released on the All Japan Band Association's official YouTube channel! This year's reference performance is by Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra. Please check it out.
  
  [2025 Required Pieces for the All Japan Band Competition]
  I. Fantasy on Songs of Celebration and Dance by Yoshitaka Sugiyama
  (Winner of the 34th Asahi Composition Prize)
  II. Step, Skip, Nonstop (A Capriccio with Sequential Progressions) by Hiroshi Goto
  (Commissioned by the All Japan Band Association for 2025)
  III. March: Memories Refrain by Shion Ito
  IV. Rhapsody ~ Eclipse by Michiru Oshima
  (Commissioned by the All Japan Band Association for 2025)
  
  All Japan Symphonic Band Federation
  2025 All Japan Symphonic Band Competition Required Pieces (Digest Version)

• Conductor Yasuhiko Shiozawa passed away.

  

  2025/01/11

  It was announced that conductor Yasuhiko Shiozawa (real name: Yasuhiko Iiyoshi), professor emeritus at the Tokyo College of Music, passed away on January 7, 2025, due to pneumonia. He was 86 years old.
  In 1973, he earned the top honor of second place at the Min-On Conducting Competition (now the Tokyo International Music Competition, Conducting Division). He subsequently had a distinguished career in orchestral and wind music, opera, and choral music. He also contributed to the development of amateur orchestras and school bands.
  Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and loved ones. May he rest in peace.
  
  Tokyo College of Music