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Reigakusha was established in 1985 as an ensemble of professional Gagaku musicians dedicated to the study and performance of the classical Gagaku repertoire and the creation of new music for ancient instruments.

Since its formation Reigakusha has gained a high reputation for its performance of the traditional Gagaku repertoire, its revival of classical works that had dropped out of the repertoire over the past few centuries, its reconstruction for performance purposes of defunct Chinese and Japanese Gagaku instruments modelled on the ancient instruments preserved in the Shōsōin Imperial Repository in Nara, and its commissions from leading Japanese composers of new works for Gagaku instruments. Reigakusha’s current repertoire consists of more than sixty ancient Gagaku pieces, thirty new works in the classical idiom, twenty works revived on the basis of academic research into music that had long disappeared from the traditional repertoire, and many major new works by contemporary composers such as TAKEMITSU Tōru, ICHIYANAGI Toshi, ISHII Maki and SARUYA Toshirō.

Reigakusha has been invited to perform in major concert halls worldwide including the National Theatre and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Symphony Center in Chicago, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the British Museum in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne and the Philharmonie de Paris.

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