YOSHIKI — composer, classically trained pianist, rock drummer, and leader of rock group X JAPAN — revealed his upcoming collaboration with superstar soprano Sarah Brightman during a 90-minute press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo on September 13th. Sarah Brightman’s upcoming album HYMN will include a new recording of YOSHIKI’s composition Miracle and a piano performance by YOSHIKI.
YOSHIKI was invited by Brightman to collaborate on Miracle for the new album, placing YOSHIKI in the company of her distinguished list of past musical collaborators, including Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ennio Morricone.
“It’s the number one masterpiece on the album,” explains Sarah Brightman. “It has elements of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and I’m very excited about it. YOSHIKI has so much talent.” YOSHIKI will join Brightman for a special TV performance and cinema taping at Festspielhaus Füssen, one of Europe’s most modern musical theaters, on Friday, September 21st, in Germany.
YOSHIKI also revealed that he will perform two classical concerts in Japan this November. YOSHIKI CLASSICAL 2018 ~Two Violet Nights~ YOSHIKI with Philharmonic Orchestra, scheduled for November 12th and 15th at Tokyo International Forum, will be YOSHIKI’s first classical concerts since his two back-to-back sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall in January 2017.
YOSHIKI will perform famous pieces that influenced his music, as well as various compositions he produced, including Anniversary, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Japanese Emperor’s reign, I’ll Be Your Love, the official theme song of the 2005 World Expo, and the Golden Globes Theme composed for the 69th Golden Globe Awards.
Watch the full press conference and a trailer for YOSHIKI CLASSICAL 2018 ~Two Violet Nights~ YOSHIKI with Philharmonic Orchestra below:
