【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 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, […]
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【携帯でご覧の場合は、英語 ➡︎日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 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
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（携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールしてください） 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
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携帯でご覧の場合は、英語 ➡︎日本語と続きますのでスクロールお願いします。 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
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We will be live streaming this concert from Tokyo, share the excitement with us!Ticket available from HERE コンサートは、オンラインでも楽しめるように準備しています。遠方にお住まいの方、海外の方達とも音楽で繋がれますね。チケットの購入はこちらからどうぞ!
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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
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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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I am often asked why I chose the harmonica out of all the instruments available. I think I was about 13 years old when I first heard a chromatic harmonica being played. The crystal-clear tone was so beautiful that I wanted to touch it. It wasn’t until much later that I realised how unusual it