2020/10/17
Profile
| ZenkyuiPvj |
| กZenkyu(Pv) iOcarina@Player) Zenkyu graduated from Tokyo Musical University as a tuba major in 1988. Since 1977, he has learned "Sho" - the ancient instrument in Japanese traditional music, and "Gagaku" from imperial orchestra master Katsuaki Bunno and Tadao Ono. He began performing as an Ocarina , Quena and Sho player. And became a composer and teacher in Japan in 1999 and now has more than 400 pupils. In Bangkok, he held workshops and concerts at Chulalongkorn University (2004). This was followed by overseas performance in the Republic of Belarus (2007), in 2009 with concerts at Raffles Institution, the Japanese Cultural Society, Singapore (ICS Japanese Language School), and Tenrikyo Mission Center in Singapore. In 2013, he held concerts at the Japan Club in New York (organized by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry), the Boston Showa Institute , and the Tenri Cultural Center in New York. In 2014, he performed for the first time at the Carnegie Hall at the USA-Japan Goodwill Concert. He dedicated his performance for the 400 Year Memorial Festival of the death of Ieyasu Tokugawa at Nikko Toshogu Shrine in Japan (2015). He performed for the 25 th Classical Music Festival at Vladivostok, Russia in 2016. Zenkyu is also a member of the Wild Bird Society of Japan. He has written many songs about birds and performed on the islands of Japan during fundraising events to protect these wildlife. Since 2012 he has been visiting temporary housings and nursing homes in Fukushima-prefecture, where people still face the threat of radioactive contamination and played the Ocarina for refugees of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan. He has also been participating in the Bandai-highlands International Music Festival since 2012. He has released five CD's and published two Ocarina text in Japan. |