The contribution of the Nippon Music Foundation to the vitality and promulgation of Music as a Performing Art is vesome.

　

 The highest quality string instruments bought by the Foundation have been placed in the precious hands of major young artists from many countries and cultures who in turn have performed hundreds of concerts on these fabulous instruments of tonal beauty.

　

 Great music thus enhanced flows more meaningfully than ever into the mainstream of contemporary life. The artists' youth and commitment to music bring renewed intensity to an art form ever in need of renewal.

　

 With an organization at work such as the Nippon Music Foundation classical music need never fear crisis or loss of following. If classical music continues to thrive, it will be thanks to this kind of effort.

　

 My thanks and gratitude to the Nippon Music Foundation

　

Lorin Maazel

　

Lorin Maazel / Conductor

Comte Jean-Pierre de Launoit / President, The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Belgium

Kyung Wha Chung / Violinist

Janos Starker / Professor, Indiana University

Bin Ebisawa / Vice President, New National theater, Tokyo

Kazuko Shiomi / President, Nippon Music Foundation

　

　

1680 violin

1727 violin

1731 viola

1736 cello

　

1696 cello

　

1700 violin

　

1702 violin

　

1708 violin

　

1709 violin

　

1714 violin

　

1715 violin

　

1716 violin

　

1717 violin

　

1722 violin

　

1725 violin

　

1730 cello

　

1736 violin

　

　

1736 violin

　

1740 violin

　

Photo by S.Yokoyama