The artist catalogue for the Regional Creation Support Programme is updated once every few years. For me, the process is also an opportunity to reflect on the direction I would like to pursue as a performer.Over the past few years, I have been fortunate to have opportunities to perform works for harmonica and orchestra. I
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Not long after the New Year began in 2026, something quite unexpected happened.At Christmas, which we celebrated in December, I opened an envelope containing a present from Santa. Inside was some money, along with a message saying, “Please use this for music lessons.” Once the Christmas holidays had come and gone, and everyday life had
Update 20th July: Our event highlight video is up on YouTube. It vividly brings back the atmosphere of the day. Since the performance was planned last autumn and finally took place this spring, the season has changed to summer. While we were working on the project, the town of Suzu continued to recover day by
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Update 10th June: It has been nearly three months since the performance, but we have finally completed the process of sending the donations we received for Suzu. As we wanted to ensure that the donations would directly support the people of Suzu, we decided to use the disaster recovery account established by the Suzu City
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March 16: Thanks to everyone’s support, we were able to successfully give our performance. Despite various challenges leading up to the day, many people attended, and it was particularly memorable that everyone commented on the warm atmosphere of the concert. The event featured a concert, an introduction of Suzu, and a lunch including Japanese cuisine,
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We had a Zoom meeting with Mr. Mizukami, who lives in Suzu. He told us about the way things are in Suzu these days. Listening to him, we could feel how the environment around the people there is changing constantly as time passes. For the day of the concert, we are planning to put a
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From there, the project began, transcending the time difference between Japan and the UK. True to its name, once SuperDuo started working on a project, ideas began to bubble up. As 2025 dawned, we realised that a year had passed since the Noto earthquake. In January 2025, the framework for the event began to take
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By contrast, Japan is ranked as the ‘most attractive country’ in the world and the country I want to visit again‘ (2024), and there is a high level of interest in tourism to Japan worldwide. To learn in detail about the events that have taken place since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake up to the present day has
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Since the Noto Peninsula earthquake and torrential rain disaster, recovery work and support for daily life have continued from various organisations in both the public and private sectors. As Japan is an earthquake-prone island nation and an economic superpower, there is a perception that recovery and reconstruction are steadily progressing, and in fact there is
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