WFIMC 2025 Yearbook

Yamaha Corporation

World Association for Performing Arts (WAPA)

https://www.yamaha.com asa.iguchi@music.yamaha.com

bfpa.chncpa.org/eng/ wapa_secretariat@163.com

Yamaha is the world’s largest comprehensive musical instruments manufacturer, producing and selling a complete lineup of products ranging from acoustic to digital musical instruments. We are developing wide-ranging, global operations spanning from businesses related to sound and music, encompassing musical instruments, professional audio (PA) equipment, audio equipment, and network equipment, and beside industrial machinery and components businesses focused on semiconductors.

Initiated by the China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in 2020, the World Association for Performing Arts (WAPA) is an international, non- profit social organization formed by theaters, cultural groups, art colleges, cultural companies, and other performing arts instutions. It now consists of 34 members from 22 countries. The mission of the WAPA is to build an open and multilateral exchange platform so as to promote the international development of performing arts with national and regional characteristics, the integration of science and technology with performing arts, and the exchange and mutual learning and common prosperity of world civilizations. As an important organization in the performing arts sector, the WAPA facilitates bilateral and multilateral cooperation in joint productions, tours and visits, digital resources and talent. It regularly holds three major forums, the Beijing Forum for Performing Arts, the Beijing Forum for Symphonic Music, and the NCPA Taihu International Stage Art Forum, and organises key brand events such as the International Opera Film Exhibition and the online concert series Music from Around the World.

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