Keiji Kado Guitar Recital ~10th Anniversary Commemorative Concert~
Keishi Sumi Guitar Recital
Guest: Masahiro Ojiri ( guitar )
Venue: Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall
[All seats are unreserved] Advance ¥3,000 Door ¥3,500
Management/Inquiries: Pro Arte Musice 03-3943-6677
Program
Sonata Eroica (M.Giuliani)Variations on a Theme from The Magic Flute (F. Sol)
Prelude Nos. 2, 5 and 1 (Villa Lobos)
Sonatina (F=M.Trova)
Concerto Duo Op.31-3 (A.Royet)*
Suite "Road" (R. Gera)*
* is duet with Masahiro Ojiri
Profile
Keiji Kaku (guitar)Moved to the United States in 1999. He entered the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, and the following year, he was specially promoted to the master's course performance diploma course. In 2002, he completed the master's course diploma course at the same conservatory and graduated.
While in the United States, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, he performed at the State Department in Washington DC. In 2002, he performed a charity concert for the World Trade Center Building in New York, which was introduced nationwide on TV news programs. In the same year, he performed with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra and the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra. Before and after that, he was active in various places in the United States, including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In 2005, she appeared in a recital hosted by the Japanese Embassy in the United States. Returned to Japan in the same year.
During the 2005 Taiwan tour, they performed in Taipei and Kaohsiung. He gave a master class at Tainan University of the Arts (Tainan City). In 2008, he performed with the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tomo Orchestra, toured Spain in 2010 and 2011, and toured Vietnam in 2013.
He is also active in a wide range of fields other than solo, such as forming a guitar duo with his younger sister Masako Kaku, the Tokyo Guitar Quartet, and ARC with Eiho, who was in charge of the music for the NHK morning drama novel "Teppan". .
He is also actively recording, including "First Impression/Keiji Kaku, Masako Kaku" and "Around the Corner/Kaku Siblings Guitar Duo", as well as solo albums "Mi Corazon" and "Gracia (Record Geijutsu 5, 2008)." 2011 Released the CD "Onsai ~ neiro ~" using the instruments owned by the Guitar Culture Museum.
1991 All Japan Guitar Competition Solo Division 1st place, 1992 4th International Guitar Festival Sendai Competition Solo Division 2nd place 1997 Spanish Music Guitar Competition Winner. Studied under M. Baruco, R. Chester, Masahiro Ojiri, and Kosaku Masuda.
