The 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and the September 2018 Heavy RainfallThe Noto Peninsula earthquake occurred while Shima coincidentally was arranging her flight tickets to Japan. It was also when she had just arrived in the UK after the SuperDuo concert in Tokyo that the disaster-stricken area was hit by record-breaking rainfall. Realising that this is a severe blow
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SuperDuo is a ‘duo that connects the UK and Japan through a shared love of music’ featuring Shima Kobayashi (Shima) and Midori Tamura (Midori). The two first met in London. Shima had been travelling across Japan to deliver performances as an artist for the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities‘ initiative to develop the music scene in public concert halls, working with
Super Duo 2024: Connecting the UK and Japan Through SoundSuper Duo • Make Music • Japan • UK • BeyondSuper Duo 2024 has officially concluded at Ryogoku Monten Hall! Thanks to your warm support, the performance was a wonderful success.Due to the continuous heatwave and heavy rain warnings, it was unfortunate that a few guests
Today, I would like to introduce our other special guest, Hiromi Terasawa. I first met Hiromi in the winter of 2022, right at the end of the year, when I was planning a showcase to resume my performing activities in Japan after a long hiatus.Miss. S from Moridaira Musical Instruments, who provided the venue for
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We will be live streaming this concert from Tokyo, share the excitement with us!Ticket available from HERE
We received a self-introduction and message from Mio, who will be joining us as a guest artist for the Super Duo 2024 evening performance. For more than 5 years after I moved to the UK, I barely touched a computer. Later, when I started taking an interest in the harmonica scene back in Japan and
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Click here to reserve your tickets! Our flyer for the Ryogoku Monten Hall concert is ready. We are delighted to welcome two guest harmonica players: Mio Hatakeyama and Hiromi Terasawa. The photo used on the flyer shows the aurora that was visible in my hometown in May. It is very rare to see the aurora
April 2024August 22 (Thu) Concert Announcement A concert in the peak of summer at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Monten Hall has been confirmed! We will post updates and details here as they come in. If you would like to receive updates, please fill out our mailing list. For now, here are the performance times. We are looking
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Back in Christmas 2020, our family received tickets for a piano recital by M. Pollini, 13 April 2021, Festival Hall… I put it in my calendar and waited for that date. But that day never came. The Delta strain was raging in the UK at the time, as was usual with the Corona pandemic, and
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My first visit to Hammonds Wood was around this time of the year, at the end of February. At the time I was still in my early years as a musician, working part-time and practising, trying to increase opportunities to play. I had won a harmonica competition in Japan, but I still felt that my
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