Japanese Traditional and Contemporary Performing Arts (Kagura Dance, Taiko, Interpretive Dance)
Sacramento, CA
KOHAKU is a unique performance collaborative based in Sacramento that specializes in traditional and contemporary Japanese performing arts, such as Kagura dance (Sacred dance of Shinto shrines), Taiko drum and a variety of other celebrated cultural music and dance.
Taiko Player
Sacramento, CA
Kristy Oshiro is a professional taiko artist based in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Japanese Folk Music and Dance Group
Sacramento, CA
Tsubaki Ensemble is a Japanese folk music and dance group based in Sacramento California.
Taiko Group
Sacramento, CA
SOKO Taiko is a collective of students and taiko groups who study under Kristy Oshiro.
Koto and Jiuta shamisen Player
San Francisco, CA
Ms. Handa began studying koto at the age of 50 years old after moving to the USA by marriage. Before then, she worked as a researcher/educator of Science at a national university in Japan for 24 years.
Koto and Shamisen Ensemble
San Francisco, CA
Masazuka-kai was originally established in 1980 by the late Grand Master Ms. Sato Masazuka as the Sato Masazuka-kai.
Composer
San Francisco, CA
After studying piano and composition in her native Korea, Hyo-shin Na came to the U.S. in 1983 to do graduate work at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Colorado, where she received her doctorate. After moving to San Francisco in 1988, she met Cage, Rzewski, Wolff and Takahashi, and encountered the music of Nancarrow.
Koto/Bass koto, Piano and Composer Group
San Francisco, CA
The Wooden Fish Ensemble presents concerts of music and musicians from a variety of cultural and national backgrounds working together in a collaborative way.
Taiko and Tsuzumi Player
San Francisco, CA
Jimi Nakagawa is a performer, educator and composer based in San Francisco Bay Area. Jimi started playing drums in high school in Tokyo, Japan.
Bass shakuhachi Group
San Francisco, CA
A small band of reverent renegades, The Heavy Roots create sounds unknown to modern society. Founded by woodwind specialist, shakuhachi master and award-winning composer Cornelius Boots, they celebrate the low tones of the raw, earthy vertical bamboo flute of Japanese Zen Buddhism
