Joe Hisaishi & Los Angeles Philharmonic in Hollywood

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer, conductor and pianist born in 1950, best known for his scores to Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films. His work includes the music for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. He has also maintained a long collaboration with filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, scoring films including Sonatine and Hana-bi. In 2008, Joe Hisaishi presented Joe Hisaishi in Budokan: 25 Years with the Animations of Hayao Miyazaki at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, conducting an orchestral and choral program drawn from their films. He later took Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki to international stages, conducting and performing at the piano during a 2022 run at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra founded in Los Angeles in 1919 by William Andrews Clark Jr. Its programs encompass the classical repertory and new orchestral music; it commissioned John Adams’s City Noir, which Gustavo Dudamel conducted at his inaugural concert as music director. The orchestra gave its first concert at Trinity Auditorium in 1919. It made Dorothy Chandler Pavilion its home in 1964, then opened Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003 and established the venue as the center of its subscription season. The orchestra first performed at the Hollywood Bowl during its inaugural 1922 season and has long used the amphitheatre for summer programs. Touring engagements have also brought the ensemble to Carnegie Hall.