Masahiro Sayama

Mikara Sanfei

Yuko Miwa (Mihune Yuko, August 17, 1966 -) is a concert pianist from Tokyo Metropolitan area. Her uncle is the guitarist Mikio Yoshido.
She started the piano in full swing from 7 years old. She finished studying all of Chopin's Waltz in elementary school. After returning Japan at the age of 12, she studied under Akiko Iguchi, Yoko Okumura, and Kazuko Yasukawa. After passing Kichijo Girls High School, she graduated with Toho Gakuen University. In 1988 when she was in college, she won the 57th Japan Music Competition. Since 1990 she studied at the Juilliard School of Music as a delegate of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and studied under Martin Cainin. In 1991, she won the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition. In 1992, she won the Juilliard Soloist Audition.

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Yasushi Ishida (violin)

Yasuhisa Ishida born on the February 19, 1973 is a Japanese violinist from Kanagawa prefecture.
He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music and won the Yatabe Prize at the same time. From 1994, he held the New Japan Symphony Orchestra Concert Master, from 2001 Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra Solo Concert Master.
In 2014, he formed a cynical string ensemble called "Ishida gumi"
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In addition, as a soloist, Lalo, Bruch, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Bach (No. 2), Mozart (No. 4), Barber, Beethoven, Schumann (more violin concertos), Brahms double concertos, Vivaldi / , Mozart and Haydn's Concert Symphonies, Beethoven Mie Concerto, etc., both of them are well received.

Its rich musicality is highly appreciated from various viewpoints, such as "a fascinating performance that delicately expresses delicate and elegant music, with its purposed deep poetry fragrant" (a friend of music).

Boasting a tremendous popularity, he is one of the most noteworthy musicians right now.

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Masahiro Sayama

Masahiro Sayama (佐山雅弘) (born November 26, 1953) is a Japanese pianist, active in jazz and video game soundtracks.
Sayama began playing piano as a child and became interested in jazz after seeing the film The Glenn Miller Story. He studied music at Kunitachi College of Music and began playing jazz professionally in the early 1970s, working with Toshiyuki Honda, Shigeharu Mukai, and Kazunori Takeda. He was a member of Shuichi Murakami's trio Ponta Box and also led his own ensembles. In 1991 he began playing with Masahiko Osaka.
Sayama also plays for video game soundtracks, including Final Fantasy X-2.

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Kirito Hirano (saxophone player)

Kirito Hirano (Hirano Masataka 1970) is a Japanese saxophone player, from Kanagawa. He used to study in Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and won the 1st place in the 7th Japan tube percussion competition. After graduating, he entered the National Paris Conservatory of Music and became the first Japanese saxophonist winner at the Jean-Marie Rondex International Competition during his studies and appeared at the regular concert of the French National Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra.

In 2000, Hirano made a domestic CD debut in the album "Millennium" composed only of contemporary work and improvisation. Since then, Hirano has performed concerts with numerous jazzmen including orchestras throughout the country, Yosuke Yamashita, Atsushi Shiotani, Akiko Grace, and performing concerts at various music festivals abroad.

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HIDEBOH (Tap dancer)

Hideki Hikuchi (October 7, 1967) is a Japanese tap dancer and is a member of the idol group Yoshimoto Saka 46. Born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. He began to tap dance in1974 with the father of Tap Dancer, Mr. Kokuchi Parents. In 1986, he entered the full-fledged training and began to visit the United States and Japan. He was also a member of The JG's, Japan's first remix team.

In the United States, he met a famous American tap dancer Gregory Hinds in 1989 and studied under his master who introduced Broadway's well-known choreographer Henry Rutan. In 1990, he joined the group "The JG's" of DJ KOO, acting as a performer of rap and tap dance.

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Okuda string

Okuda string (October 10, 2001) is a Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, born in Saitama Prefecture. He started playing with a toy piano and was taught by his father how to read music.In almost self-taught, he got a performance method, and began composing. After listening to Bill Evans at the age of 6, he lean towards jazz through listening to CD exclusively, and began to admire Oscar Peterson. After that, he opened a solo concert at the age of seven.

Okuda string also performed concerts in Kawagoe City and Hyogo Prefecture Kami Town. He appeared in numerous jazz festivals. Sapporo City Jazz, Asahi Jazz, Green Tea Jazz Festival, Summer Jazz, Tokyo Jazz etc Mitsui Hall, Yamagata Telsa Hall, Kobe Oriental Theater, Across Fukuoka, Minano Town Cultural Center, many other halls nationwide.

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Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized.

He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".

Mozart's music, like Haydn's, stands as an archetype of the Classical style. At the time he began composing, European music was dominated by the style galant, a reaction against the highly evolved intricacy of the Baroque. Progressively, and in large part at the hands of Mozart himself, the contrapuntal complexities of the late Baroque emerged once more, moderated and disciplined by new forms, and adapted to a new aesthetic and social milieu. Mozart was a versatile composer, and wrote in every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata. These forms were not new, but Mozart advanced their technical sophistication and emotional reach. He almost single-handedly developed and popularized the Classical piano concerto. He wrote a great deal of religious music, including large-scale masses, as well as dances, divertimenti, serenades, and other forms of light entertainment.

The central traits of the Classical style are all present in Mozart's music. Clarity, balance, and transparency are the hallmarks of his work, but simplistic notions of its delicacy mask the exceptional power of his finest masterpieces, such as the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491; the Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550; and the opera Don Giovanni. Charles Rosen makes the point forcefully:

It is only through recognizing the violence and sensuality at the center of Mozart's work that we can make a start towards a comprehension of his structures and an insight into his magnificence. In a paradoxical way, Schumann's superficial characterization of the G minor Symphony can help us to see Mozart's daemon more steadily. In all of Mozart's supreme expressions of suffering and terror, there is something shockingly voluptuous.

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