Hiroshima Nagisa Senior High School Chorus Club
広島なぎさ高等学校 合唱部
Japan
As our school offers an integrated junior and senior high school program, our choir usually consists of 42 members from Junior High School 1st Year to Senior High School 2nd Year. During the summer competition season, the junior high and high school groups rehearse and perform separately. In the 2024 academic year, we commissioned composer Kyoko Hagi to write a new work, “The Most Delicious Part of the Soul: Five Mixed Choruses on Poems by Shuntaro Tanikawa,” which we premiered at our March concert. In the 2025 academic year, our high school choir was awarded the Gold Prize at the Hiroshima Prefecture Choral Competition.
Category
School-based Choir (Approx. 18-year-old or younger)
Nawa Yujiro
Category 2
While studying at Hiroshima University, he conducted the university’s mixed choir, Shinonome Pastorale. During his graduate studies, he founded the Choir Pokkiri and began his full-scale career as a choral conductor. He has been selected for the finals of the “Choral Conducting Competition for Young Conductors” four times, including two appearances as a finalist. He has conducted at the All Japan Choral Competition National Finals six times. He currently serves as the permanent conductor and music director of Pokkiri, as well as an external lecturer for the Yasuda Women’s University Choral Club VIVIDNOVA. He is also a teacher and the advisor of the choir at Hiroshima Nagisa Junior & Senior High School, Tsurugakuen Educational Foundation. He has studied conducting under Mr. Chikara Imamura and choral conducting under Mr. Chifuru Matsubara.