The marimba is still not widely known as a musical instrument since its history is young compare to that of the piano or the violin. However, I believe that it's a coming instrument of great appeal: the warm and dynamic sound peculiar to the woods, and the ability to collaborate with the instruments of various music genres.
- Great moment with marimba music -
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Other than performing at concerts, I visit schools, welfare institutions, and hospitals to play the marimba. The idea is to create opportunities for people to "experience the live marimba tunes at familiar places". I also hold workshops to create an opportunity for many people to actually touch and feel the instrument.
- Experience the live marimba tunes at familiar places -
My activity report
Workshop at Ageo-shiritu Kamogawa Elementary School A class room concert of the piano and marimba (Ageo-shi, Saitama) |
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I visited Kamogawa Elementary School with a pianist Noriko Sato to perform a class room concert. The students had decorated their music class beautifully to welcome us. We had set up the program with ?gDANCE?h as our theme this time, and we had the students join our encore performance by clapping in rhythm to tango. |
Workshop at Shibaura Elementary School A mini-concert of the marimba and the piano (Taketoyo-cho, Aichi) |
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With a pianist Megumi Oohashi, I visited Shibaura elementary school to hold a rhythm workshop and to perform a mini-concert. In the 40 minute-workshop, together with the 34 members of the fifth grade, we created and practiced the rhythm using things we use in the kitchen, and we made one piece of music. Then, we performed that music at the mini-concert afterward.
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Housei University, Tamagawa Campus (Machida-shi, Tokyo) |
I went to the workshop organized by Housei University, whose aim was to raise the people's interest in art culture. |
Daiichi nursery school & Mizuho-en (Miyoshi-cho, Saitama) |
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I'd like to introduce some of the comments I've received from Daiichi nursery school. I'm very happy that we could enjoy the music together. Meeting and spending time with the people of a wide range of ages, from five to ninety-nine years old. It has been a wonderful day. |
Chikumazawa Kamitome Elementary School (Miyoshi-cho, Saitama) |
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I visited the school's music room with a pianist Mr. Kenichi Nakagawa, and we had the students study the structure of the instruments and listen to our performance. We also improvised a tune together. |
Workshop at Mifunegaoka Elementary School A little concert of marimba and piano (Takeo-shi, Saga prefecture) |
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I visited Mifunegaoka Elementary School with a pianist Kenichi Nakagawa to conduct a workshop there. There is an oak tree which is over 3000 years old in Takeo-shi. So we asked the children to imagine and make objects d?fart of the god that lives there protecting the children. Afterward, we improvised and played the tunes of the image we got from those objects d?fart made by the children.
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Kobato no Ie preschool A little concert of marimba and piano (Takeo-shi, Saga prefecture) |
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I visited the preschool with a pianist Kenichi Nakagawa. We explained the structure of the musical instruments visually, and improvised tunes with the children using our bodies and some musical instruments. |
Izumo Science Museum "What is sound? One, two, three! " (Izumo-shi, Shimane) |
We looked at the wonder of sound through scientific experiments. Many joined our performance with the handmade musical instruments and the body percussion. There were five different experiments such as using liquid nitrogen to experiment the difference of sound depending on its hardness, looking closely at the waves of sound using an oscilloscope and more. By not only listening to the performance but by also studying sound through several experiments, I think many people got more interested in music. I really appreciate the museum staff for their great cooperation!! |
The Lake Kawaguchi Stella Theater "Enjoy music in the great nature! " (Kawaguchiko-cho, Yamanashi) |
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This event, aimed at raising the environmental awareness through the experience in the great nature of Mt. Fuji and enjoying the music, was set up, prepared and managed by the local high school choir group "BEATS"
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