Diary

mmm... Circle of Friends vol.1

27 September 2010, 19h00, Suginami Koukaidou, Small Hall, Ogikubou

Kaori Ohsuga performs my new (composed 2010) piano piece, Fugue in b.

Details of the concert and the collective, as well as a map, are here.

Music Without Borders vol.1

22 January 2010, 19h00, Yodobashi Church, Obara Memorial Chapel, Shin-Okubo

Naoko Kikuchi performs my 2008 solo koto piece Myself in the Disguise of an Ancient Goddess, with a text by iconic gay poet Takahashi Mutsuo, as part of the first concert of the Music Without Borders group.

Music Without Borders is a collective consisting of five young composers from four different countries on three continents. We seek to explore the similarities and differences between composers of different cultural backgrounds, and encourage intercultural exchange.

For our first concert, we have written works for Otonari, a trio of talented musicians whose instrumentation reflects similar concerns to our own. The members of Otonari are Naoko Kikuchi (koto), Yoshiko Hannya (viola), and Masumi Yoshikawa (soprano).

Please contact musicwithoutborders5@gmail.com to reserve tickets.

The full programme:   Daryl Jamieson            Myself in the Disguise of an Ancient Goddess  (2008) WP

                                    Ian Dickson                 New Work  (2009) WP

                                    Hideaki Haginomori    Viola of Love  (2009) WP

                                    Yuan Guo                    Lullaby  (2009) WP

                                    Yuka Shibuya              a landscape in a pocket 2  (2009) WP

                                 

                        

Posters by Anna Zmyslowska (click to enlarge)