Centenary Concert & Lecture in Honour of Trinity Alumnus Keiichi Kurosawa

It is 100 years since Keiichi Kurosawa (1903-82) matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Moral Sciences. A talented musician, Kurosawa immersed himself in the musical life of the College, putting on concerts and performing on the cello. He was part of the early music revival in the UK in the 1920s and ultimately became arguably the most important figure in the dissemination of Western early classical music in Japan in the twentieth-century. To celebrate Kurosawa's achievements, on 8 November 2025 there will be a lecture by Jason James, the UK's leading expert on Kurosawa, and a vocal and chamber concert in Trinity's historic Old Combination Room. The concert programme, to be performed by Trinity choral scholars and the Jozef Chasyd Quartet, will include madrigals by Morley, Wilbye, Gibbons and others, as well as string fantasias by Purcell and Mozart's magnificent String Quartet in D major, K 575. This programme is based on a concert that Kurosawa himself put on (and in which he played the cello) in the Old Combination Room in his first year as a Trinity undergraduate. Join us for what promises to be both an informative and a musically vibrant event! Participation is free. Just register here on Eventbrite to help us keep a track of numbers.

The full programme is (all in the Old Combination Room):

3.00 Tea

4.00 Welcome: Paul Wingfield, Director of Studies in Music at Trinity

4.15 ‘Keiichi Kurosawa – Japan’s Western early music pioneer’: talk by Jason James,

Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

5.15 Break

6.00 Vocal and Chamber Concert by Trinity Choral Scholars and the Jozef Chasyd Quartet

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