CONCERT
“Around Japanese Music Today / no.6”

Concert at the House of Culture of Japan in Paris
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 6:30 p.m.

For the 6th part of this musical cycle, the shakuhachi and the koto are in the spotlight. New works by two composers of different generations, Masakazu Natsuda and Tetsuya Yamamoto, will be performed in world premiere. We will see how these former students of the National Conservatory of Music in Paris and the National Conservatory of Music in Lyon brought these emblematic instruments of Japanese music to new territories.

＝PROGRAM＝

Shakuhachi and koto improvisation

Masakazu Natsuda (1968- )
Minazuki no yû for shakuhachi (2023, world premiere)

Keita Matsumiya (1980- )
Iroha for utai and koto (2012)

Ittetsu Shimizu (1976- )
「Visio/ nmbra viveis lucis for koto solo」(2009)

Tetsuya Yamamoto (1989- )
Autumn fragments, or traces – for shakuhachi and koto (2023, world premiere)

Date/ 06/14/2023 18:30-19:30
Rental/　Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris (small room)
Price/　５ Euros

For more information, you can click the link below

https://www.mcjp.fr/fr/ agenda/katsura-creasion-shakuhachi-fumie-hihara-koto?fbclid=IwAR1Vg7Jh5cGGc-IuQwqIAQkeHZ16rlfzHq0JrLQZUMhDmwFyA9YtvtvTWJM
Co-production/: House of Culture of Japan in Paris, Franco-Japanese Association for Contemporary Music

https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/events/view/1239/

The piano: with its 52 white and 36 black keys, the piano continues to attract many musicians for its wide range and deep musicality. The “Three Views of the Keyboard” project is centred around the piano as an instrument and looks at the history, present, and future of cutting-edge keyboard music using acoustic, prepared, and electronic methods.
This series of concerts follows on from “Feldman meets freq”, which took place in February 2022. Enjoy the music of outstanding composers and performers from the Kyushu University’s Faculty of Design and from around the world. We will be very happy if you can see another side of the keyboard in a new light.

Part 2: “Hyper Piano: Beyond the Keyboard”
Date: October 30, 2022 (Sun) 16:00 start, 15:30 open
Performers: Reina Nishioka (piano), Keita Matsumiya, art student (electronics)
Program :
John Cage “Bacchanale” for prepared piano (1940)
Keita Matsumiya “Shitatari” for hybrid piano (2019)
Cassandra Miller “Philip the Wanderer” Piano and Page Turner (2013)
Cage, “Music for Marcel Duchamp” for prepared piano (1947)
Jonathan Harvey “Tombeau de Messiaen” for piano and tape (1994)
Michael Pisaro “fields have ears (1)” for piano and tape (2008)

After Talk: Reina Nishioka, Keita Matsumiya, Kazuhiro Jo, Daryl Semison

http://steamlab.ed.oita-u.ac.jp/

This symposium will focus on A (art) and T (technology) of STEAM education. In the first half, Mr. Sada Fujioka, representative of anno lab, who produced the “Heterogeneous Museum of Nature and People” in Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture, Mr. Keita Matsumiya, a composer who explores the future of mixed music and the hybridization of instruments; Ms. Sanae Yoshinaga, who studies children’s exploratory behavior through , will provide a topic. The second half will be coordinated by Mr. Hiroo Shimogori of National Institute of Technology, Hakodate College, and we will deepen the discussion on the correspondence between A (art) and T (technology) and how to view the world.

● On-site venue: KATETE / 2-1-23 Hagiwara, Oita City

Click here for the venue

●Symposist

◯ Mr. Sadamu Fujioka
CEO of anno lab Co., Ltd. / Artist
Theme: Technology and art

◯ Mr. Keita Matsumiya
Composer / Lecturer at Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture
Theme: Periphery of Recording and Writing in Music Production

◯ Ms. Sanae Yoshinaga
Vice President, Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University / Professor, Graduate School of Human Life Studies
Theme: “Feel, Think, Express” Children’s World

● Coordinator

◯ Mr. Akio Shimogoori

Hakodate National College of Technology Professor

● General moderator

◯Yoshihiko Shimizu

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Oita University / Oita University STEAM Lab.

●Configuration
◯ Opening remarks, purpose explanation (15 minutes)
◯Provide topic of symposium (20 minutes x 3 people)
◯ Break (15 minutes)
◯ Q&A/Discussion (50 minutes)
◯ Summary and closing remarks (10 minutes)

https://www.borncreativefestival.com

Born creative Festival 2021
Tokyo Metropolitan Theater
Saturday, October 2nd, 11:00~19:00 (enter/exit free)

Keita Matsumiya – Electroacoustic music “Waves”

electronic music room
Venue: Atelier East, Atelier West
Acousmonium (electro-acoustic music performance device) player Tomoya Higaki designed the acoustic space with Michel Bocanowski as the main composer, as well as works by Shohei Amimori, Hideki Umezawa, YOSHI WADA, and others. There are a lot of new works by young artists.

https://www.oita-pjc.ac.jp/events/detail/899

Date: January 15, 2021 (Friday) 6:00 p.m. start (5:30 p.m. open)
Location: Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture Music Hall

Programme :
《Sound of bells and spirited away》 Composition / performance: Momo Arimura
《Five》 Composition / Performance: Mai Irie
《Combination》 Composition / Performance: Miyu Fujisaki
《Sigh》 Composition / Performance: Urara Mori
《Beginning》 Composition / Performance: Ichika Haseba
《Somehow there is a taste of poetry》 Composition / Performance: Junichi Kidera
《Stray》 Composition / Performance: Kanon Nishigaki
《Drowning Dream》 Composition / Performance: Itsuki Uchida
《B.A.B.U.N.》 Composition / Performance: Miyu Okada
《Playful Fairy》 Composition / Performance: Yumi Yamamoto
《C’est bon》 Composition / Performance: Yumi Sasaki
《Underwater Bridge》 For hybrid violin Composition: Keita Matsumiya
Performance: Mayumi Kawase

[Kyoto performance]
January 16, 2021 (Sat) 18:30 start (18:00 open)
Kyoto Art Center 2F Auditorium 546-2 Yamabushiyama-cho, Muromachi-dori Takoyakushi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8156
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5 minutes walk from Exits 22 and 24 of “Shijo Station” on the Subway Karasuma Line and “Karasuma Station” on the Hankyu Kyoto Line.

[Tokyo performance]
January 22, 2021 (Friday) 18:00 start (17:30 opening)
Tokyo Concerts Lab 2-3-18 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0051
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6 minutes walk from “Waseda Station” on the Tokyo Metro Tozai Line (from Exits 2 and 3b toward Anahachiman Shrine)
10 minutes walk from “Nishi-Waseda Station” on the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (Exit 2)

・ Luis Naon / ALTO VOLTANGO (2001)
・ Simon Steen-Andersen / Study (1998)
・ Philippe Leroux / AIRS (1992)
・ Astor Piazzolla / History of Tango (1982)
・ Gene Koshinski / Get it! (2011)
・ Keita Matsumiya / dialogos pour saxophone baryton (2010)
・ Kazutomo Yamamoto / “Smiling Density” for Percussion Solo (2017)

Date: November 7th (Sat) 16:30 start (15:30 open)

Location: Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture Music Hall

(1st year of junior college) Ichika Haseba
«Weathercock» for violin and piano (2020)
Performance: Kain Kabata (violin), Urara Mori (piano)

(2nd year of junior college) Yumi Yamamoto
«Moon in the water, light illuminating the lake» for trumpet and piano (2020)
Performance: Kanon Nishigaki (trumpet, flugelhorn), Yukie Ito (piano)

(2nd year of junior college) Miyu Okada
«Sepia-style pendulum» for violin, cello and piano (2020)
Performance: Sayuri Sakamoto (violin), Rina Kawano (cello), Yuka Kajiwara (piano)

(2nd year of junior college) Itsuki Uchida
«Circus» for mixed chorus and piano (2020)
Performance: Yuna Tsukamoto, Hinata Maki, Yumi Sasaki, Tomoe Sugio
Yu Harayama, Yamato Masuda, Gun Takakura, Hikaru Ito (chorus)
Ami Akamine (piano), Keita Matsumiya (conductor)

(Professor) Keita Matsumiya
«Underwater Bridge» for Violin and Electronic Acoustics (2020)
Performance: Mayumi Kawase (violin), Keita Matsumiya (electronics)