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Dear Maestro Janowski

マエストロ・ヤノフスキへ メッセージ


マエストロ・ヤノフスキへ感謝を込めて

2014年から12年にわたり、計11プログラム、20公演を東京・春・音楽祭で指揮した巨匠マレク・ヤノフスキ。2026年3月25日のシェーンベルク《グレの歌》で東京春祭でのラストを飾ったマエストロ。間もなく休館を迎える東京文化会館での最後の瞬間を、短い映像に収めました。

As Maestro Marek Janowski prepares to take the podium at the Spring Festival in Tokyo for the final time with "Gurre-Lieder", we have received messages from artists who have shared the stage with him at the festival.

Eberhard Friedrich

Marek Janowski ist ein ganz außergewöhnlicher Musiker und ein sehr besonderer Mensch, den ich sehr schätze.

Ich bewundere seine schier unendliche Energie in Proben und Aufführungen in denen es ihm gelingt, die auch sonst hervorragenden Ensembles, die für das Spring Festival spielen oder singen zu ganz besonderen Höchstleistungen zu führen.
Ich bin dankbar und freue mich, dies erleben zu dürfen.



Egils Silins

The great conductor Marek Janowski has been for me a truly inspiration to grow in the Wagnerian repertoire and one of the most important personalities I had the honor to work with.
Performing the role of Wotan/Wanderer in the Ring under his baton, among others at the Spring Festival in Tokyo has been a deep emotional, professional and wonderful experience and will remain in my heart as one of the  landmarks of my career. 
Thank you dear Maestro for having taken me in these unforgettable musical journeys.



Adrian Eröd

It is quite unbelievable that this, “Gurre-Lieder”, should be the last time that he is coming to Tokyo for the Spring Festival. And it is amazing how he is still full of energy, how he's giving, and how he is transforming music.
It is sad for us, but it is good for him that he will have some good years still left without having to have done. All the best to you Maestro Janowski.



Tomasz Konieczny

Marek Janowski, the great German conductor of Polish heritage, holds a very special place in my heart—especially since I myself am Polish. He has been an extraordinarily important figure in my life, and one of my greatest mentors. We first met while working on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and that piece seems to reappear in our collaborations time and again—most recently in Dresden.
As for the Spring Festival in Tokyo, it is also an event very close to my heart. Maestro Janowski conducted the entire Ring cycle there. I would also like to mention that Maestro Janowski supported me during the first Baltic Opera Festival in the Tricity area—Gdańsk, Sopot, and Gdynia—on the Polish coast, where he conducted The Flying Dutchman.
I must say that Maestro Janowski’s interpretations are among the finest I have ever encountered in my life. There is tremendous consistency in his work, immense strength, and extraordinary energy—especially remarkable given his age. He is a conductor with seemingly limitless reserves of energy, and someone we can all learn from.
I am very proud and truly happy to have worked with him. I also deeply cherish all the concert performances I have had the privilege to take part in under his baton.
Maestro, I wish you all the very best. I wish you continued strength and inspiration, and I sincerely hope that we will have many more opportunities to perform together.



Tareq Nazmi

Reflecting on the incredible experience of performing at the Spring Festival in Tokyo under the baton of Maestro Marek Janowski over the past years.

As he now prepares to say farewell to the festival, I feel even more grateful for the time spent working with a conductor of such immense experience. Sometimes, it didn’t even take a gesture—just a quick wink of an eye and you knew exactly what he meant. For a singer, that kind of intuitive connection is a rare and supportive gift. An honor to have been part of his musical journey!


Thank you Maestro Janowski from the Spring Festival in Tokyo

Over 12 years since 2014, Maestro Marek Janowski conducted 11 programs and 20 performances at the Spring Festival in Tokyo. On March 25, 2026, with Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, he brought his final appearance at the festival to a close.
We have captured this last moment at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan—soon to close for renovations—in a short video.

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