NEWS
Finland Tour 2025
Following her successful 2024 Finland tour, Kanae Nozawa returns with an enchanting erhu concert! Praised as "the most beautiful concert ever heard" by audiences, Kanae will captivate you with her expressive erhu and gentle vocals. The expressive sound of the erhu, the "Chinese violin," is familiar to many from movie and video game music, and its versatile tone truly shines in Kanae Nozawa’s performance. Joined by renowned composer Tamiya Terashima on keyboard, the concert will feature Studio Ghibli classics like Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro, as well as other beloved Japanese anime songs. Additionally, Tamiya Terashima, known for composing the music for Tales from Earthsea, will have his works performed, alongside traditional melodies and Kanae’s original compositions. This promises to be a magical night of music!
Erhu& Vocal: Kanae Nozawa
Keyboard: Tamiya Terashima
Tampere
TAMPERE
22(Sat)-23(Sun) November 2025
Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre
At Kotae Expo, Nozawa and Terashima will appear together in their own talk show and autograph session, in addition to performing live for the Kotae audience.
Erhu concerto
27 November 2025(Thu)
Start 19:00
Rovaniemi KORUNDI
Chamber Symphony Concert IV: Shimmering vibrations
Canadian conductor Simon Rivard makes his debut with LCO along side Japanese erhu soloist Kanae Nozawa!
The programme includes world premiere by Kalevi Aho and also works by Jean Sibelius, Maurice Ravel and Samuel Barber.
HELSINKI
Kanae Nozawa 7th original album "Arkadia"
This is the third and final album in the series following "PLANET" and "BRAVE"!
🎶Get this album at these digital music stores. iTunes / Apple music / Spotify / AWA / e-onkyo, mora, ototoy, Victor, music.jp ...others too!
Kanae Nozawa, an erhu player, has been fascinated by the erhu, a Chinese folk instrument that fascinates listeners with its unique and lustrous sound. This is the 7th album of Kanae Nozawa who is active in a wide range of fields. With composer Tamiya Terashima as the sound producer, the album tells a story like a movie and a world of grand scale through music." This is a full-length work that harmonizes the "erhu played as if singing" with a band, strings, and folk instruments!