JAPANESE & WESTERN
TRADITIONAL ＆ MODERN MUSIC
CHARITY CONCERT
Piano & Nagauta Shamisen, Flute, Songs
◆ Date: 24th June, Fri, 2011
◆ Time: 19:00 to 21:00
◆ Place: Franciscan Chapel Center
4-2-37 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 JAPAN
Phone: (03)3401-2141 / Fax: (03)3401-2142
http://www.stfrancistokyo.com/
＜Free entrance and Free offering＞
【Our concert Purpose】
To support “Hibaku ―atomic bombed in Hiroshima during World WarⅡ”piano concert that will held at St. Joseph Hall in St. Ignatius church, Yotsuya, Tokyo.
≪Application and Inquiry≫
E-mail: moreen@xc4.so-net.ne.jp or FAX: 03-3401-8750 (Mori)
【Program】
●Improvised music arrangement from “Amazing Grace” by piano
●“Ebben,n'andro lantana “ from “La Wally”, Alfredo Catalani” by soprano
●“Hungarian Pastoral Fantasy op.26” , Albert Franz Doppler by flute & piano
● Japanese traditional music, by Nagauta Shamisen
● Improvised music arrangement from Japanese traditional music by Nagauta Shamisen & piano, etc.
【Profile】
★ Kosuke Ito [piano]： Graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts, composition department. During university student, he mastered study of the improvised music in Paris, France. He won at Accord publication prize contest and his work was elected as a commission. Lately, he is enlarging his place of his activity in commercial / drama / the soundtrack. Now, he works at a laboratory of medical corporation Inagi-dai Hospital (musical therapy), part-time teacher of Musashino Academia Musicae attached senior high school music department. （ http://www.kousuke-ito.com/）
★ Maria Miyata [soprano] : Graduate from Musashino Academia Musicae, vocal music department. She mastered in Sienese, Italia and Graz, Austria, and played on the opera and operetta stage as a contracted singer of State of Hof city opera house in Bayern, German for ten years. Now she is singing in Japan.
★ Mie Negishi [flute] : Graduate from Ueno Gakuen, instrumental music department and mastered at Toho Gakuen school of Music. She studied under Akiko Ono and Ryu Noguchi. She played at Yomiuri New Face concert and for the royalty in Toka-Gakudo hall in the Imperial Palace. She played with the 1st “Hibaku” piano audition in Kure, Hiroshima.
★ Yumiko Kibi[piano] : Grpaduate from Ueno Gakuen, instrumental music department. She studied under Haruyo Kubo and Mr. B. Frith in Kuhmo Music Festival in Finland. She got prize for encouragement in Duo section at the 20th PTNA piano competition and Sony prize.
★ Hidetada Tanaka (Nagauta Shamisen) ：Graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts, Japanese traditional department Nagauta Shamisen class. He does performance in Marunouchi-building, art galleries, improvised music with piano, collaboration with animation and Shamisen from student time.
Otherwise, he works as a graphic designer and makes fryers and pamphlets of various concerts.
★ Mineko Mori (concert planner, essayist)：Graduate from Japan Women's University home economics department, children studies and mastered graduate class. She got Avon woman scholarship. She researched about “Right and left brain -from function and culture of hearing” and published an essay “Maria Elizabeth’s Music” from PHP publishing Co., Ltd. She sponsored a concert supporting FREIDENS-DORF International last year and made successes.
