22/02/2016
Our first concert for 2016 is this Monday 29th February. Get your tickets on Eventfinder, at the Hutt and Wellington i-SITE Centres or Rough Peel Music.
In association with Chamber Music New Zealand and with co-operation of New Zealand Festival, we present the Miyata - Yoshimura - Suzuki Trio playing traditional Japanese instruments - the shō, koto and recorder.
The Trio’s programme includes traditional and contemporary Japanese pieces plus it has also worked for the last year with local composers Samuel Holloway, Dylan Lardelli and Chris Gendall to create a fusion of Japanese and New Zealand music. Of this collaboration the composers remark “It has been a delight to work with three such engaging and virtuosic musicians, who have brought to these works immense sensitivity and incredible technical facility. It is also a genuine pleasure to hear these new pieces alongside some exceptional Japanese repertoire from both modernity and antiquity”
Mayumi Miyata has said of her instrument, the shō which is akin to the harmonica, “It sounds like the Milky Way. … When you see the stars or galaxies in the night sky, the sound of shō is like some galaxy which changes colours gradually.” New music has been written for her by composers as diverse as John Cage in USA, Toru Takemitsu in Japan, Helmut Lachenmann in Germany and Björk Guðmundsdóttir of Iceland. Nanae Yoshimura has similarly been in search of new possibilities for musical expression and extending the horizons of the koto, an instrument akin to the zither, since her debut as a specialist in Japanese traditional music in 1972. Tosiya Suzuki studied the recorder in the Netherlands and has performed at festivals throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. He performs music from the Renaissance and the 21st century with equal intensity and sensitivity.
Buy tickets for CMHV: Miyata - Yoshimura - Suzuki Trio - CMHV: Miyata - Yoshimura - Suzuki Trio, Mayumi Miyata (shō, akin to the mouth organ), ..., St Mark's Church, Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, 29 February 20
