Dear Philip,
You last email helped me realize that I am currently
in the wrong area for playing Shakuhachi. Not bad for
A.Flute and B.Clarinette. There is nothing as
interesting as whats happening in your neck of the
woods, though.
Ps. DO you play any reeds, by chance?
Isaac,
--- Philip Gelb <phil@philipgelb.com> wrote:
> Japanese Music Summit II
> Musicians to Convene at Old First Concerts
>
> Old First concerts presents the second U.S. summit
> of Japanese music
> on Friday, January 10 at 8 pm. Musicians
> representing disciplines
> from traditional "hougaku" music to more
> contemporary music will
> gather January 10 for a unique and extraordinary
> concert in San
> Francisco's Old First Church.
>
> Philip Flavin - shamisen, voice
> Michael Hattori - koto
> Shoko Hikage - koto
> Tamie Kooyenga - koto
> Brett Larner - koto
> Miya Masaoka - koto
> Shirley Muramoto - koto
> Brian Mitsuhiro Wong - koto
> Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
> Robin Hartshorne - shakuhachi
> Tim Perkis - electronics
>
> Featuring traditional pieces as well as contemporary
> compositions by:
> Tadao Sawai, Yuji Takahashi, Pauline Oliveros,
> Katsuko Chikushi,
> Hyo Shin Na, Miya Masaoka, Brett Larner and others
>
>
> This event, "Bay Area Japanese Music Summit 2003,"
> will mark the
> unusual gathering of artists from different schools
> of Japanese music
> performing together in the bay area.
>
> The concert will take place Friday, January 10 at 8
> p.m. at the Old
> First Church located at 1751 Sacramento Street, at
> Van Ness.
>
> The history of Japanese traditional "hougaku" music
> (traditional
> music, including koto, Japanese zither; shakuhachi,
> bamboo flute;
> and shamisen, Japanese lute) in the United States
> began when the
> Japanese started to immigrate in the late 1800s.
> During World War
> II, a few of the Japanese and Japanese-Americans
> interned in
> relocation camps would play Japanese instruments
> discreetly amongst
> themselves, as practicing Japanese arts was either
> discouraged or
> forbidden. Starting in the 1960's, Americans that
> are not of Japanese
> descent have also begun playing and mastering
> traditional Japanese
> instruments!
>
> Musicians will include shamisen player Philip
> Masashi Flavin, koto
> players Shoko Hikage, Tamie Kooyenga, Brett Larner,
> Miya Masaoka,
> Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto, and shakuhachi players
> Philip Gelb and Robin
> Hartshorne and other guests.
>
> For further information, contact Old First Concerts
> at 415/454-1608
> or phil@philipgelb.com
>
>
>
> Media Advisory: Attention Music and Cultural
> Editors
>
> What: Old First Concerts presents the "Bay Area
> Japanese Music
> Summit 2003", a concert of tradition and
> contemporary Japanese music.
> This event brings together artists from different
> schools of Japanese
> music to perform on the same stage.
>
> Where: Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San
> Francisco, CA
> 94109, 415/474-1608
>
> When: Friday, January 10, 2003, 8:00 p.m.
>
> Who: Performances by:
>
>
> Philip Masashi Flavin, past winner of the Eisner
> Prize for
> Creative Achievement in Music Performance and a
> graduate of the Seiha
> Conservatory of Music in Tokyo, Flavin is a Ph.D in
> the field of
> Ethnomusicology from the University of California,
> Berkeley.
>
> Michael Hattori began musical studies at the age
> of six,
> wanting to be a concert pianist. After a year in
> Japan in 1979
> changed he became interested in the koto, and
> entered the Seiha
> Conservatory for Classical Japanese Music.
>
> Shoko Hikage, a highly innovative player of new
> music is
> koto instructor at the Japanese Community and
> Cultural Center of
> Northern California, located in San Francisco's
> Japantown, and
> earned a shihan from the Sawai School of koto music.
> She is very
> active as a peformer of new music.
> http://www.shokohikage.com
>
> Tamie Kooyenga is a classical koto player who holds
> a
> prestigious title of "kouto" from the Todo Japanese
> Music Institute.
> She is a past winner of the NHK (Japan Broadcasting
> Network) award
> for vocal talent. Tamie was born in Hiroshima and
> lived through the
> atomic bombing and currently teaches koto in Walnut
> Creek and in the
> south bay.
>
> Brett Larner is currently working on a MA in
> composition from
> Mills College. He holds a shihan from the Sawai koto
> school.
> http://www.japanimprov.com/blarner
>
> Miya Masaoka works simultaneously in the varied
> musical worlds of
> jazz, Western classical music, electronic music,
> traditional
> Japanese music and free improvisation. She has been
> performing
> throughout Europe and North America the past several
> years.
>
> Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto holds a daishihan from the
> Chikushi
> School. She first studied koto with her mother who
> learned koto while
> in the internment camps during world war 2. She is
> director of the
> Murasaki Ensemble, a local jazz world fusion group
> and teaches
> traditional and cotemporary koto styles to students
> at UC Berkeley.
> http://www.murasakiensemble.com
>
> Shakuhachi player, Phillip Gelb is known for his
> innovative
> approach to bringing shakuhachi into new and
> experimental music and
> is one of the most active shakuhachi players and
> teachers in the
> United States. He runs the "Bay Area Shakuhachi
> School" which now
> has over 20 students enrolled.
> http://www.philipgelb.com
>
> Robin Hartshorne, co-director and founder of the
> Bay Area
> Japanese music group, Rei In Kai, has been teaching
> and performing in
> the Bay Area for the last fifteen years. He is
> Professor of
> Mathematics at the University of California at
> Berkeley. His home in
> Berkeley has been a focal point of the bay area
> hougaku community for
> many years.
>
> --
> Philip Gelb
> phil@philipgelb.com
> http://www.philipgelb.com
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