Event

The Department of Music is pleased to present a Sho & Koto workshop for composers with Naomi Sato & Naoko Kikuchi. Moderated by Gene Coleman, in partnership with the American Composers Forum. 

About Naomi Sato

(Tokyo Japan 1975) Naomi Sato graduated from the saxophone class of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1998. She finished 2nd phase saxophone studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2002. Sato studied the Sho with Ko Ishikawa at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She has collaborated with many composers and played with Teo Loevendie (composer, saxophone), Harry Starreveld(Flute), Merlijn Twaalfhoven (composer, viola), Olivier Sliepen (saxophone), Laura Carmichael (Clarinet), Netherlands Vocaal Laboratorium, and Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam, Netherlands). She has given chamber music concerts in Japan, Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg with member of her chamber music grope Duo X Project, improvisation trio Karooshi (Sax, Harp, Contra Bass), and Vlinder Vangers ( sho + electronics). And she gave lecture concerts about ‘Music scene in Amsterdam through Japanese traditional music’ in Conservatorium van Amsterdam (2000), North Eastern University (2005) and UM Dartmouth (2005). For more information.

About Naoko Kikuchi

Born in Sendai Japan, Naoko Kikuchi learned since her little age by her grand mother and mother. Since 1989 she took lessons by Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai. When she was Sophia University student in Tokyo, she joined world tour (Austria,Ukraine,Russia,Switzerland,Germany,France and middle and south America.) as member of Sawai Kazue Koto Ensemble. And she joined Recordings (d'c records). She graduated from NHK (Japanese National Broadcasting Company) School for Perform of Traditional Japanese Instruments and took master licence as highest point. She was selected cultural internship student by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and received prizes from several contest. For more information.

About Gene Coleman

Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and director. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2013 Berlin Prize for Music, he has created over 70 works for various instrumentation and media. Innovative use of sound, image, space and time allows Coleman to create work that expands our understanding of the world. Since 2001 his work has focused on the global transformation of culture and music’s relationship with other media, such as architecture, video and dance. He studied painting, music and film making at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his principle teachers included legendary experimental film artists Stan Brakhage and Ernie Gehr, as well as Robert Snyder (music) and Barbara Rossi (painting). For more information.