The Music of Joe Hisaishi

SPECIAL EVENT

Friday 19 & Saturday 20 June 2026, 7.30pm

Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre

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Welcome

Welcome to this very special concert event with the wonderful West Australian Symphony Orchestra, performing the music of perhaps one of the most loved film composers of all time, Joe Hisaishi. Tonight’s performance aims to be a little different however as we attempt to uncover why Joe Hisaishi’s scores are so magical, and what makes them tick.

For years my good friends Nicholas Buc (tonight’s conductor) and Dan Golding (my co-host) would find moments in our hectic schedules to grab lunch, or a drink, and spend 100% of the time waxing lyrical about the latest film scores. Often it included us pulling up a particular track on our phones, having it loudly play through its terrible speakers, and showing each other great moments of movie scoring magic (what great café guests we must have been!). I enjoyed this time so much that I suggested we record a podcast on the subject, not that I thought anyone would listen, but because it would be a good excuse for me to trick my friends into doing this more regularly. The ruse worked, and Art of the Score was born!

Why do I tell you any of this story, dear audience member who loves Hisaishi and has likely never heard of Art of the Score? Because that original premise of wanting to spend more time with my friends, geeking-out about great moments in film music and showing each other “the best bits” is exactly how we’ve designed our concert tonight. So I invite you, our new friends, to hang out with Nick, Dan and myself as we explore this wonderful music with you. This time, however, someone let us use a concert hall instead of a café, and 80 of the finest orchestral musicians in the country instead of an iPhone. Truly we are in for a treat tonight!

Andrew Pogson
Host and Creative Director

The Music of Joe Hisaishi

Act 1 (60 mins)

World of Dreams
DA.MA.SHI.E
Kiki's Delivery Service
Water Traveler
Kikujiro: Summer
My Neighbour Totoro

Interval (20 mins)

Act 2 (60 mins)

Howl's Moving Castle: Symphonic Variation
Oriental Wind: Dream More
Departures
Nausicaä of The Valley of the Wind: Fantasia
Spirited Away: Suite

Nicholas Buc conductor
Dan Golding host
Andrew Pogson host
Aura Go piano

Produced in association with Concert Lab.

Did you know?

Born Mamoru Fujisawa, Hisaishi's stage name is a tribute to American musician, Quincy Jones. The kanji for "Quincy" can be pronounced similar to "Hisaishi" in Japanese, while "Joe" comes from "Jones".
Hisaishi once won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music, against himself – he was nominated for two different films in the same year!
Hisaishi was awarded the Medal of Honour (Purple Ribbon) by the Government of Japan in 2009 for his services to the arts.
Hisaishi has loved both movies and music from a young age. He began learning the violin around age five and, as a child, watched hundreds of movies every year with his father.

WASO On Stage

VIOLIN
Riley Skevington
Associate Concertmaster
Semra Lee
Assistant Concertmaster
Alexandra Isted
Principal 1st Violin
Zak Rowntree*
Principal 2nd Violin
Kate Sullivan
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin
Sarah Blackman
Stephanie Dean
Amy Furfaro
Rebecca Glorie
Beth Hebert
Emma Hunt
William Huxtable
Sunmi Jung
Christina Katsimbardis
Sera Lee^
Andrea Mendham
Jasmine Middleton^
Lucas O’Brien
Melanie Pearn
Louise Sandercock
Jolanta Schenk^
Jane Serrangeli
Luisa Theis°
Samantha Wickramasinghe
Susannah Williams^

VIOLA
Daniel Schmitt
Alex Brogan
Kierstan Arkleysmith
Nik Babic
Alison Hall
Rachael Kirk
James Munro
Elliot O’Brien
Helen Tuckey

CELLO
Melinda Forsythe^
Jeremy Garside
Mirjana Kojic^
Shigeru Komatsu
Sacha McCulloch^
Nicholas Metcalfe
Ingrid Sealey^
Fotis Skordas
Miah Smith^

DOUBLE BASS
Andrew Sinclair*
John Keene
Robin Brawley
Sarah Crawford^
Josh Spirek^
Giovanni Vinci

FLUTE
Mary-Anne Blades
Michael Howell^

PICCOLO
Sonia Croucher

OBOE
Liz Chee
Stephanie Nicholls°

COR ANGLAIS
Jonathan Ryan

CLARINET
Allan Meyer
Som Howie

BASS CLARINET
Alexander Millier

BASSOON
Jane Kircher-Lindner
Adam Mikulicz
Kate Pitcher^

HORN
David Evans
Eve McEwen
Julia Brooke
Francesco Lo Surdo

TRUMPET
Jenna Smith
Orson Payne
Peter Miller

TROMBONE
Joshua Davis
Liam O’Malley
Justin Gross^
Matthew Walker^

TUBA
Chloe Higgins

TIMPANI
Alex Timcke

PERCUSSION
Brian Maloney
François Combémorel
Assoc Principal Percussion & Timpani
James Chong^
Cara Daily^
Paul Tanner^

HARP
Kira Leigh^

KEYBOARD
Liam Wooding^

KEY

Principal
Associate Principal
Assistant Principal
Contract Musician°
Guest Musician^

*Instruments used by these musicians are on loan from Janet Holmes à Court AC. We greatly appreciate the support of our musicians’ Duet partners, acknowledged below.

About the Artists

Nicholas Buc
Conductor

Nicholas Buc is an award-winning composer, conductor, and arranger with a distinguished career in both film and concert music. He studied composition under Brenton Broadstock and Dr. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, earning the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. Nicholas furthered his education with a Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia from New York University, where he was honoured with the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring.

His compositions have been showcased at festivals and theatres across Australia, Asia, and the United States. In November 2022, the Melbourne Youth Orchestra premiered his Trumpet Concerto, commissioned by Josh Rogan. His 100-minute oratorio, Origins, premiered to a sold-out audience at Melbourne Recital Hall in July 2023. Recently, he scored the Australian feature film Slant (2022) and the Ukrainian documentary Slava (2023).

Nicholas has collaborated with renowned artists and ensembles, including Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, and The Cat Empire. He has served as conductor and arranger for Tina Arena on six Australian tours and has created arrangements for Birds of Tokyo, Lake Street Dive, Missy Higgins, The Avalanches, Eskimo Joe, The Whitlams, and Vera Blue. His television work includes Junior MasterChef (2020), five seasons of The Voice Australia, and the 2021 AFL Grand Final.

Highly sought after for live film concerts, Nicholas has conducted the world premieres of major films, including Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and Field of Dreams.

The 2024-2025 season saw the North American premiere of his children’s work, Daughter of the Inner Stars, with the Vancouver Symphony. The season also featured exciting debut engagements with the Chicago Symphony, Chicago Lyric Opera, Toronto Symphony, Kansas Symphony, and Auckland Philharmonic, along with reappearances with the Seattle Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, and Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as all the Australian Symphony Orchestras.

About the Artists

Prof. Dan Golding
Host

Dan Golding is Professor of Media at Monash University, the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic, and an award-winning composer and writer. Dan is the author of Star Wars After Lucas (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and created the soundtrack for the BAFTA, DICE, and GDCA winning Untitled Goose Game (2019). Other composing includes the soundtracks for Mars First Logistics (2023), Push Me Pull You (2016) and the Frog Detective series, for which his score for The Haunted Island (2018) won the inaugural APRA-AMCOS Australian Game Developer award for Best Music. Dan also composed the theme for the ABC’s flagship podcast, ABC News Daily.

About the Artists

Andrew Pogson
Host

Andrew Pogson is a concert producer, director and presenter with more than twenty five years in the music industry, and the founder and Creative Director of Melbourne's Concert Lab.

For over a decade he was Head of Presentations and Senior Manager, Special Projects at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conceiving and producing multiple world premieres — from the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular to film music projects with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, all the way to The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra — and programming concerts with artists from Sting and Randy Newman to Tim Minchin. He conceived and produced both Flight Facilities Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Symphonica with Armand van Helden, each Helpmann-nominated for Best Australian Contemporary Concert, with the former's recording winning the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.

As a presenter, he co-created and hosts Art of the Score live in concert, performing with every one of Australia's major symphony orchestras and internationally with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Auckland Philharmonia.

About the Artists

Aura Go
Piano

Aura Go is an Australian concert pianist, curator and educator. She performs internationally as concerto soloist in repertoire from J.S. Bach to Sofia Gubaidulina, as recitalist and chamber musician in imaginative programs that interweave old and new music, and as narrator and actor in cross-artform and educational projects.

In recent seasons Aura has performed as soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria. Festival appearances have included the Edinburgh Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, PianoEspoo, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Musica Viva Festival. In 2023 Aura toured nationally for Musica Viva in a critically acclaimed performance as pianist-actor in the stage adaptation of Paul Kildea's Chopin's Piano. Current season highlights include solo engagements with the Melbourne, Queensland and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, a national tour for Musica Viva with violinist Kristian Winther and cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, and recital collaborations with cellists Ivan Karizna and Li-Wei Qin, flautist Joshua Batty and soprano Sara Macliver.

Aura enjoys musical partnerships with pianist Tomoe Kawabata as the KIAZMA Piano Duo, and with Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve (Principal Cellist, Australian Chamber Orchestra), with whom she recorded the complete Beethoven cello sonatas and works by Webern for ABC Classics. A committed advocate for new and underrepresented repertoire, Aura's discography also includes first recordings of works by Lisa Illean (NMC Records), Miriama Young (ABC Classic), Japanese works for piano duo (KIAZMA), and four-hand music by Ekaterina Komalkova (Tall Poppies).

Aura is Head of Piano at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University, where she leads a vibrant program that nurtures creativity, collaboration and artistic curiosity. She has previously taught at Yale College and the Sibelius Academy, and has been visiting artist at institutions including the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus (Denmark), the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (Poland), Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences (University of Arkansas) and the Australian National Academy of Music.

Born in Melbourne, Aura studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian National Academy of Music before completing her Master of Music at the Yale School of Music. She then spent seven years in Helsinki, combining an active performing career with doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy. In 2018-19 Aura was a Musica Viva FutureMaker artist. Her artistic research explores the intersections of acting and music performance, focusing on developing musicians’ embodied imagination as a foundation for creative and compelling performances.

About the Music

Despite being one of the most successful film composers of all time, sometimes it can feel a little bit like being a fan of Joe Hisaishi is to be a member of a secret club.

That’s not to say that club is in any sense small. With more than 80 film soundtracks, 40 solo albums, and Billboard number one hits, the Joe Hisaishi fan club may well be the biggest secret club on the planet.

But perhaps unlike many of the other big-name film composers today, you either love Hisaishi and his music, or you don’t know him at all. Chances are, by being at this concert, you love Hisaishi and are an enthusiastic member of this wonderful club. There are very few Hisaishi fence-sitters out there: once encountered, his music tends to change the way you see and hear the movies. That said, if you’re new to his music, we extend you a very warm and wholehearted welcome.

However, Joe Hisaishi is an enigma for many, a question ready to be answered. Perhaps it is the singular, unrepeatable nature of his collaborations with director Hayao Miyazaki, his most famous creative partner and one whose beloved movies have made Miyazaki famous the world over. Perhaps it is his broader body of work that is less frequently heard in Australia, like his collaborations with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Takeshi Kitano, Hisaishi’s own directorial debut with the film Quartet (2001), or his extensive and quite wonderful non-soundtrack concert hall works. Or perhaps the enigma is the man himself, quietly spoken and modest to a fault, despite being personally responsible for some of the best loved compositions of the last several decades.

Indeed, the enigma begins with a name, as Joe Hisaishi was born as Mamoru Fujisawa in 1950 in Nakano, Japan. The young Fujisawa studied music composition at Kunitachi College of Music, where he quickly fell in love with the minimalism of the likes of Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Phillip Glass. This was cutting edge music at the time, a new way of composing that continued to push at the boundaries of the avant-garde in the same way that the serialists or the modernists did earlier in the 20th century, but with a difference: it was also terrifically popular. Minimalism even made its way to the movies, and today the influence of Glass in particular can be heard at cinema multiplexes around the world.

Taking the stage name of ‘Joe Hisaishi’ from the Japanese transliteration of ‘Quincy Jones’, the American composer, musician, and producer, the then up-and-coming Hisaishi was recommended by his music publisher in 1983 to anime director Hayao Miyazaki, who was looking for a composer for the ‘image album’ for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984). An ‘image album’ is promotional music, released when an anime is announced to generate excitement and imagination. Usually a lesser-known composer does this work before making way for a bigger name and the final film, but Miyazaki was so impressed with Hisaishi’s approach that he demanded Hisaishi compose the full Nausicaä score. And with that, the great Hisaishi-Miyazaki collaborative relationship began.

Although the famous Studio Ghibli would not be born until 1985, in many ways, Nausicaä set the tone. Nausicaä is a film about nature, technology, and war, all themes that Hisaishi would return to time and again with Miyazaki. Musically, in Nausicaä, there is minimalism, there is contemporary synth pop, and there is the kind of lyrical orchestral sweep that would make Hisaishi so beloved in films like My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Ponyo (2008), and Spirited Away (2001). Then there is also the menace and the wistfulness of Princess Mononoke (1997) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), the latter of which has found renewed life in the internet era as a popular soundtrack for social media.

People tend to talk about the food of Miyazaki’s movies and the way it is so lovingly – and deliciously – animated. But it is nature and the world around us that sets Miyazaki’s movies apart. Next time you revisit any of his films, watch the trees, the wind, the rain, and the waves. There is a buoyant stillness to Miyazaki’s ecological worlds, and it is Hisaishi’s music that gives it that crucial life. The word ‘Ghibli’ was selected by Miyazaki from the Libyan Arabic for ‘hot desert wind’, with the idea that the studio would have a similar effect on the anime industry. Hisaishi’s music is Miyazaki’s own secret hot desert wind, breathing vitality into every frame. Miyazaki’s films depict our environment at its most intoxicating, but just as hair, clothes, and leaves are squashed and stretched by the animator’s wind and rain, they are also enlivened by Hisaishi’s brass, his woodwinds, his strings, his mastery of the orchestra.

Although Hisaishi’s music makes the fullest use of the orchestral palette in finding each film’s soul, the piano is as central to his music as nature is to Miyazaki’s images. Frequently, while listening to a Hisaishi soundtrack, a peal of piano will emerge out of a fog of orchestra, presenting the listener with a startlingly well-defined melody or romantic turn. The piano is, after all, where Hisaishi writes.

Despite being best known for his collaborations with Miyazaki, Hisaishi has formed prolific partnerships with other directors and projects – another enigma to some, but one that rewards exploration. Alongside his work with director Nobuhiko Obayashi (Chizuko’s Younger Sister from 1991, and Samurai Kids from 1993), there’s also collaborations with Takeshi Kitano, whose darker edged crime dramas afforded Hisaishi the opportunity to flex his dramatic musical muscles. Hisaishi wrote music for seven of Kitano’s films, including the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning Hana-bi (1997), about a violent police detective forced to retire after an accident. Hisaishi also wrote music for Yōjirō Takita’s Departures (2008), a film where music is doubly important as it follows a struggling cellist who takes on work as a mortician. Departures became the first Japanese film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Hisaishi also scored the key entries in the popular role-playing videogame series Ni no Kuni.

More recently, Hisaishi has concentrated on composing music for the concert hall and returning to his first love of American minimalist music. Hisaishi has assembled an impressive body of concert works, including symphonies and multiple compositions for contexts ranging from orchestra to small ensemble.

Hisaishi should be an enigma no more. To those of us who know his music, he rightfully takes his place as one of the greatest film composers ever, and certainly the names Miyazaki and Hisaishi sit comfortably alongside other director-composer combinations like Hitchcock and Herrmann, and Spielberg and Williams.

Yet Hisaishi’s work also speaks to something even more essential than the powers of a good soundtrack or a great concert hall work. At his best, Joe Hisaishi’s music connects with the greatest enigmas that there are: the planet, our existence, our altruism for others, and a hot wind breathing life into a childlike reverence for nature.

About Art of the Score

Art of the Score

Art of the Score is a Melbourne-based podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games. In each episode hosts Andrew Pogson, Dan Golding and Nicholas Buc check out a soundtrack they love, break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick and hopefully impart their love of the world of soundtracks.

Art of the Score has been recommended by The New York Times, enjoyed time in the iTunes Top 10, What’s Hot and New & Noteworthy lists and is listened to by soundtrack geeks all around the world. Head on over to artofthescore.com.au for more nerdery and tomfoolery.

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Sue Boyd
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Michelle Candy
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THE INSTRUMENT FUND
John Albright & Susan Lorimer – Education Double Bass and set of Trumpets
Dr Glenda Campbell-Evans & Dr Ken Evans AM – Tenor Trombone
Peter Ingram – Piccolo
Deborah Marsh – Conductor’s Podium and Cor Anglais
Margaret & Rod Marston – Bass Clarinet
Peggy & Tom Stacy – Cor Anglais and Piccolo
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Bendat Family Foundation
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Janet Holmes à Court AC
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Minderoo Foundation
Rosalin Sadler
In memory of Bob Tonkinson
In memory of Francis Edward Yeomans
Sagitte Yom-Tov Fund

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J.A.M
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