ICR Tokyo is supporting violinist Maria Marica’s participation in the 39th edition of the International Music Festival in Tokyo—an event organized by the Japan Music Culture Exchange Association, the Special Executive Committee for International Exchange and Friendship, and the Japan-Poland Association, with the support of partners Japan Red Cross and Asahi Shimbun.
The concert will take place on March 27 at Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo and will feature the international Virtuoso Mozart Festival Orchestra, composed of talented young musicians from Eastern European countries, conducted by Maestro Mitsuyoshi Oikawa, with soloists: Maria Marica (violin), Murakami Kouki (piano), and Goto Mariko (piano).
Over the years, through the involvement of the Romanian Embassy in Japan and, since 2025, the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, the festival has supported and promoted several guest musicians from Romania: Bianca Ligia Manolianu, Alexandru Tomescu, Ioana Deliolan, Alina Balaban, Roxana Bajdek, Sînziana Mircea, Adina Cocrujean, Mihai Rițivoiu, Cristian Agapie, and Ionuț Diaconu.
It is a charity event organized to foster international cultural exchange and to support and promote young musicians from Eastern Europe.
The concert program includes:
Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 - soloist Maria Marica
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in A minor, Op. 58 - soloist Murakami Kouki
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 24 in A major, K. 218 - soloist Goto Mariko
