Yoko Nishii's pianist concert tour in Croatia for 2022: Vinkovci, Županja, Vukovar, Rijeka
http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/11348/1/Yoko-Nishiis-pianist-concert-tour-in-Croatia-for-2022-Vinkovci-upanja-Vukovar-Rijeka.html
By Nenad N. Bach and Darko Žubrinić
Published on 08/28/2022
As we can see, Yoko Nishii had 54 soloist concerts in as many as 25 Croatian cities and towns!
 | Yoko Nishii is touring Croatia again: Vinkovci, 12th September (Music school "Josip Runjanin" at 19:00), Županja, 13th September u 19:30 (Pastoral - cultural center), Vukovar, 15th September at 19 sati (Marble Hall of Eltz Palace). Yoko Nishii is a Japanese pianist. She speaks Croatian, and until now had 50 soloist concerts throughout Croatia, in as many as 24 cities and towns. |
Yoko Nishii, Japanese pianist, had 50 soloist concerts in as many as 24 Croatian cities and towns
| Yoko Nishii - concert tour Croatia 2022 Vinkovci, ponedjeljak 12. rujna Dvorana glazbene škole Josipa Runjanina u 19 sati H. D. Genschera 16E Organizatori: Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Vinkovcima, Hrvatska matica iseljenika - podružnica Vukovar Glazbena škola Josipa Runjanina Vinkovci Županja, utorak 13. rujna u 19.30 Pastoralno - kulturno središte Županja Veliki Kraj 47 Organizatori: Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Vinkovcima, Hrvatska matica iseljenika - podružnica Vukovar Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Županji Vukovar, četvrtak 15. rujna u 19 sati Mramorna dvorana dvorca Eltz Gradski muzej Vukovar Županijska ul. 2 Organizatori: Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Vinkovcima, Hrvatska matica iseljenika - podružnica Vukovar Gradski muzej Vukovar Program
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| Yoko Nishii' concerts in Croatia
As we can see, Yoko Nishii had 50 soloist concerts in as many as 24 Croatian cities and towns! |
Yoko Nishii's concert in Vinkovci, 2022
On the right to her are Ivana Biljan (director of Matija Antun Reljković grammar school) and Dražen Švagelj (president of Matrix Croatica in Vinkovci).
Yoko Nishii with Dinka Peti, director of the Music School of Josip Runjanin in Vinkovci
Bis at the concert in Vinkovci
Yoko Nishii in the city of Županja
From the left: Antun Levaković (director of the Forestry Museum - Šumarski muzej in Bošnjaci), Dr. Dražen Švagelj (president of Matrix Croatica in Vinkovci),
Damir Juzbašić (Mayor of Županja), Yoko Nishii, H. E. Masato Iso (Japanese Ambassador to Croatia), Silvio Jergović (president of Croatian Heritage Foundation in Vukovar),
rev. Robert Jugović (leading the Parish of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist in Županja)
From the left: Želimir Janjić (president of Matrix Croatica, Županja), Dr. Dražen Švagelj (president of Matrix Croatica in Vinkovci),
H. E. Masato Iso (Japanese Ambassador to Croatia),Yoko, Robert, Silvio, Ana (teaching at the Music School in Županja), Mr. Yutaro Nishida (cultural attache).
Yoko Nishii in the city of Vukovar, Eltz Palace
Yoko Nishii in Eltz Palace in Vukovar
Announcement of the fothcoming concert in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)
Yoko Nishii in Zagreb at the Flower Square, enjoing with Nikola Tesla.
Again with Nikola Tesla in Zagreb, carved by Ivan Meštrović, the greatest Croatian sculptor.
Yoko Nishii in the company of Slavko Štambuk (on the left) and DŽ.
The Baska Tablet from arround 1100, carved with Glagolitic Letters, one of the most important Croatian monuments,
kept in the building of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb.
Yoko Nishii and Slavko Štambuk by the bust of Nikola Šubić Zrinski. A Croatian tune U boj, u boj from the opera Nikola Šubić Zrinski
composed by Ivan pl. Zajc is very well known throughout Japan.
composed by Ivan pl. Zajc is very well known throughout Japan.
Placed by the building of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Zrinjevac park,
it is just a hundred meters from the Embassy of Japan in Zagreb.
it is just a hundred meters from the Embassy of Japan in Zagreb.
Yoko Nishii with Mijo Marić (director of Matica iseljenika in Zagreb, on the right) and with
Silvio Jergović (director of Matica iseljenika branch in Vukovar). Source.
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Yoko Nishii in the city of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina
At the Sarajevo Music Academy, from the left: professors Dragan Opančić, Vanja Gabrić,
Yoko Nishii, and Ališer Sijarić (Dean of the Sarajevo Music Academy)
Yoko Nishii performing a very demanding pianist program at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo.
Note a "window" on the left of the entrance door.
A view from the outside of the hall. A result of Serbian shelling and bombing of the city of Sarajevo,
left as a "monument" of the tragic war in 1990s.
Yoko Nishii after her concert, with Mr. Ibrahim Spahić, president of the International Peace Centre,
founder and director of the International Sarajevo Winter Festival.
Yoko Nishii with her friends in Sarajevo, during her pianist workshop organized in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yoko Nishii with her origami, prepared during the night after her concert, organized
on the occasion of the International Day of Peace (21st September). On the left is Mr. Ibrahim Spahić,
and on the right Mr. Zoran Filipović Zoro, distinguished Croatian photographer and writer.
Cranes folded by Yoko Nishii
Yoko Nishii and Vedran Tuce, director of the Sarajevo Philahrmonic Orchestra,
with her crane in his hands.
Yoko Nishii with her friends in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Vanja Gabrić (originally from the city of Metković) is on the left,
on the right Lejla Alimanović, behind Yoko on the left is Ibrahim Spahić, and on the right Asmir Kujović,
president of PEN Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yoko Nishii at the Elementary Music School Mladen Pozajić in Sarajevo with professors of piano.
National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yoko Nishii at the Olympic Museum in Sarajevo, with her young friends.
Complements to the Olympic Museum in Sarajevo
Yoko Nishii with Sinan Alimanović and Vanja Gabrić on the left,
and with Leila Alimanović (standing) and Minka Alimanović on the right.
Yoko Nishii and Vanja Gabrić in Sarajevo, with Nikola Tesla.
Although Nikola Tesla was never in Sarajevo, it is nice to see his monument there.
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Yoko Nishii in Rijeka - concert at Governer's palace, 4th October 2022
| Yoko Nishii - concert in Rijeka, Croatia, 4th October 2022 Program:
Organizatori koncerta su Grad Rijeka i EU Japan Fest u suradnji s Veleposlanstvom Republike Hrvatske u Japanu. Ulaz je slobodan. |
Maja Bošković (protocol and public relations advisor of the city of Rijeka), Yoko Nishii,
Doris Šajn (head of the office of the city)
City Hall, Rijeka. Note the flag of Ukraine above the main entrance.
Guvernerova Palača (Governor's Palace) in the city of Rijeka
Yoko Nishii playing in Governor's Palace in the city of Rijeka
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From the right: Yoko Nishii, Marija Lukačin, Kristijan Lukačin, Don Jurica Manzoni, ...
Yoko Nishii with her dear designer Džana Ravlić, Sally Atelier, Rijeka
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As we can see, Yoko Nishii had 54 soloist concerts in as many as 25 Croatian cities and towns!
In Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mostar, Sarajevo