Pianist
CHANEL Pygmalion Days Chamber Music – Schumann Piano Quintet with violinist Mana Itoh and Shunichiro Fukuda, violist Meguna Naka, and cellist Hideaki Fujiwara. It was an intense week rehearsing with great players. I love this piece so much that the concert felt really short..
Buffet Crampon x CHANEL concert at Nexus Hall in Ginza.
Takeshi Imamura (Trombone), Kazuhiko Sato (Tuba) and I performed an exciting program fused with baroque, classical, jazz and rock styles. Fun collaboration with big brass instruments!
Press conference in Beijing!
It was a fun journey to collaborate with Wang Tao. I am very happy to take part in this project with a wonderful team of Universal Music China.
It was wonderful to rehearse with a renowned clarinetist Wang Tao in Beijing. I am honored to join his new album, and I’m looking forward to the recording later this month.
I am very grateful for being able to visit the forbidden city during this trip. (Thank you, producer Dave Tam!!!) Seeing their magnificent buildings was an experience that I will never forget!
樅楓舎 – Sho-fu-sha – concert series vol3
I am honored to perform with cellist Nathaniel Rosen, violinist Pierre Amoyal, and violist Yuko Shimizu. You are cordially invited to join us on May 16th, Hakuju hall in Tokyo!
Last concert of the year! Violinist Rika Masato and I played at a noontime concert at Iino Building. Lovely short pieces by Kreisler, sonata by Debussy, and Carmen Fantsy by Sarasate – good program to end year 2016. We loved the cheering in between the movements in Carmen!
Thank you for coming to hear us at the Living Room Cafe！
It’s always a treat to work with violinist Mai Suzuki! We had fun performing our favorite short pieces this week. Yesterday, we escaped the heat in the Kawaguchi-Ko Music Forest in Yamanashi. Their summer roses and old music boxes are from all over the world. It felt like we were performing in a fairytale land.
ザルツブルグから帰国中のヴァイオリニスト、鈴木舞さんと河口湖オルゴールの森美術館へ行ってきました。世界に数台しかなく、製作に250年かかったというオルゴールが置かれたメインホールと、部屋全体がオルガンになっているダンスホールで、沢山のお客様に聴いていただきました。オルゴールの綺麗な装飾や色とりどりの夏バラに囲まれて、舞さんの美しいヴァイオリンにうっとりしました。
I had the honor of performing at the 6th Enraku Sanyutei’s Rakugo recital in Ginza Jujiya. Rakugo is a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling. Using only a paper fan (扇子 sensu) and a small cloth (手拭 tenugui) as props, Rakugo’s minimalistic style is one of the coolest arts we have in Japan. The master Enraku took us through a mesmerizing hour of storytelling. His storytelling was so good that I forgot I needed to perform next! I was completely drawn in by the funny but very human tale of a pickpocket in Edo. Famous for his sarcasm, of course he said “this big instrument takes up so much space on the stage! ”
昨日は銀座十字屋さんの「午後のサロン」で円楽師匠の後に演奏させて頂きました。銀座にちなんだお話からいつのまにかじーんとくる人情噺になり、本当に時を忘れるくらい師匠の話芸に引き込まれました。「寄席のように居心地が良い十字屋さんのホールですね、このピアノさえなければ…」いじって頂きました！ありがとうございます。
