DROGA DŌ
International Chamber Music Festival
ישראל - Polska - 日本 - Lietuva
September 19th - November 2nd 2025
Through chamber music’s intimate power, DROGA DŌ festival aims to transform historical memory into living art. Music travels where words cannot reach, it carries the sound of footsteps across borders, and the rhythm of hope against despair.
For more information in
POLISH / HEBREW / LITHUANIAN / JAPANESE
visit our website: droga-do.org
/// ISRAEL ///
Sept 19th 2025 11AM, Polish Institute Library, Tel Aviv, Israel
Author meeting with Zofia Hartman about her book “Sugihara’s List”.
Sept 20th 2025 8:30PM, Studio Annette, Tel Aviv, Israel
DROGA DŌ Poster Exhibition opening in cooperation with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, curated by Karol Tomoki Yamazaki.
Sept 20th 2025 9PM, Studio Annette, Tel Aviv, Israel
DROGA DŌ concert
Artists
Ania Karpowicz - flute
Piotr Lis - oboe
Shir Semmel - piano
Tel Aviv Wind Quintet
Programme
Nina Fukuoka/Aleksandra Ołdak - DROGA DŌ (2024)
Tōru Takemitsu - Itinerant (1989)
Toshio Hosokawa - Spell Song (2015)
Aleksander Weprik - Dance No.2 op.13b (1928)
Joseph Achron - Dream Op. 56, No.1 (1923)
Alexander Tansman - Suite for Wind Trio (1949)
Tzvi Avni - Wind Quintet (1959)
Leo Smit - Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano (1933)
Tickets:
https://fbmc.co.il/en/show/droga-do
/// POLAND ///
Oct 4th 2025 7PM, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Open Meeting: Polish traces in “Sugihara’s List”
& DROGA DŌ Poster Exhibition opening in cooperation with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, curated by Karol Tomoki Yamazaki.
Oct 4th 2025 8PM, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
DROGA DŌ concert
Artists
Ania Karpowicz - flute
Piotr Lis - oboe
Shir Semmel - piano
Tel Aviv Wind Quintet
Programme
Nina Fukuoka/Aleksandra Ołdak - DROGA DŌ (2024)
Tōru Takemitsu - Itinerant (1989)
Toshio Hosokawa - Spell Song (2015)
Aleksander Weprik - Dance No.2 op.13b (1928)
Joseph Achron - Dream Op. 56, No.1 (1923)
Alexander Tansman - Suite for Wind Trio (1949)
Tzvi Avni - Wind Quintet (1959)
Leo Smit - Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano (1933)
Free admission:
https://www.jhi.pl
/// LITHUANIA ///
Oct 10th 2025 5PM, Sugihara House, Kaunas, Lithuania
Author meeting with Zofia Hartman about her book “Sugihara’s List”
& DROGA DŌ Poster Exhibition opening in cooperation with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, curated by Karol Tomoki Yamazaki.
Oct 12th 2025 4PM & 7PM, Sugihara House, Kaunas, Lithuania
DROGA DŌ concert
Artists
Ania Karpowicz - flute
Alicja Kieruzalska - bassoon
Kristina Reiko Cooper - cello
Naruhiko Kawaguchi - piano
Programme
Nina Fukuoka/Aleksandra Ołdak - “DROGA DŌ” (2024)
Dai Fujikura - Bridging Realms (2023)
Improv on Tekla Bądarzewska’s "The Maiden's Prayer" Op. 4
Mieczysław Wajnberg - Bassoon Sonata Op. 133 3rd mvt (1981)
Dai Fujikura - Following (2013)
Karen Tanaka - The Song of Songs for cello and tape (1996)
Ania Karpowicz - di rajze ahejm for flute and tape (2023)
--- intermission ---
Mieczysław Wajnberg - 2 Mazurkas (1933)
Alexander Tansman - Bassoon Sonatine (1952)
Tomojirō Ikenouchi - Ballade on an Ancient Japanese Air (1936)
Joseph Achron - Hebrew Lullaby (1919)
Grzegorz Fitelberg - Piano Trio Op. 10 (1901)
Ticekts:
https://www.sugiharahouse.com/en
/// JAPAN ///
Nov 1st 2025 6PM, Port of Humanity, Tsuruga, Japan
DROGA DŌ Poster Exhibition opening in cooperation with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, curated by Karol Tomoki Yamazaki
& DROGA DŌ concert
Artists
Ania Karpowicz - flute
Alicja Kieruzalska - bassoon
Kristina Reiko Cooper - cello
Naruhiko Kawaguchi - piano
Programme
Mieczysław Wajnberg - 2 Mazurkas (1933)
Alexander Tansman - Bassoon Sonatine (1952)
Tomojirō Ikenouchi - Ballade on an Ancient Japanese Air (1936)
Joseph Achron - Hebrew Lullaby (1919)
Grzegorz Fitelberg - Piano Trio Op. 10 (1901)
Free admission:
https://tsuruga-museum.jp/en
TEAM DROGA DŌ
Concept, Text & Artistic Direction: Ania Karpowicz
Festival’s Coordinator: Alicja Kieruzalska
Historical Consultant: Zofia Hartman
Production Manager: Dominika Borowiecka
Graphic Design & Artistic Supervision: Karol Tomoki Yamazaki
ORGANISER
oto foundation
otofundacja.org
CO-ORGANISERS, PARTNERS & SPONSORS
Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland
Jewish Historical Institute, Poland
Dom Spotkań z Historią, Warsaw, Poland
Sugihara House, Kaunas, Lithuania
The Sugihara Foundation “Diplomats for Life”, Lithuania
Port of Humanity, Tsuruga, Japan
Studio Annette, Tel Aviv, Israel
Felicja Blumental Music Centre Association, Israel
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Lithuanian Culture Institute
Polish Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania
Polish Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel
Polish Institute in Tokyo, Japan
ZAiKS Polish Authors’ Association
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