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Global Koto Music Network’s Online Masterclass Series No.3 will feature ‘SANKA -A Song of Praise-’, a koto solo piece composed by Koto Grand Master Tadao Sawai. Ms. Kiyomi Ishigaki, a professor at the Sawai Koto Institute, will be the instructor, and Mr. Curtis...
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A brand-new CD by renowned koto performer Kazue Sawai is now available! This live recording, captured at the Suginami Public Hall in July 2017, features Sawai performing works by composer Yoichi Sugiyama. The album includes pieces for 17-string koto, reconstructed...
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Guest Speaker: Chieko Fukunaga in cooperation with Curtis Patterson and the Yokohama International School After Masterclass Series No.1, we are pleased to have Master Cheko Fukunaga back to teach us the ensemble piece “Raden.” Composed by Master Tadao...
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Global Koto Music Network is pleased to announce the first in a series of online master classes, “Tori no Youni -Like a Bird” with Ms. Chieko Fukunaga! Since graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1974. Chieko has been performing,...
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Hello from Singapore! ✨✨✨ We are KotoKottoN, a koto ensemble based in the National University of Singapore (NUS) founded in 2009 by Kitai Saeko sensei, a Japanese language instructor at NUS Centre Language of Studies and a qualified koto instructor from Sawai Koto...
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Hello! I am Yayoi. This weekend I participated in “Koto Camp in Thailand 2023”, held in Bangkok. “Koto Camp in Thailand 2023” is organised by 4 Koto Masters from Global KOTO Music Network, Odamura sensei (Sydney), Nagai sensei (Manila), Kitai sensei (Singapore)...
