Event Overview
A Christmas concert featuring a saxophone and piano duo will be held at the Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art.
This is a luxurious concert where you can enjoy moving music and drinks in the afternoon.
Enjoy a special Christmas time, immersed in music to your heart's content.
Date and Time
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Doors open: 13:30 / Show starts: 14:00 (scheduled end time: 16:00)
venue
Salon Le Damier at Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art
program
- Caccini: Ave Maria
- Debussy: Moonlight
- Mel Torme: The Christmas Song and more
Artist
- Saxophone: Sanshiro
- Piano: Azumi Nishizawa
Artist Profile
- Sanshiro, Saxophone/Musician
- Musician Sanshiro, a saxophone player known as a pioneer of street musicians, graduated from the general course of Toho Gakuen High School and entered Berklee College of Music. He joined Professional Music Major and majored in guitar. Influenced by Charlie Parker, he soon switched to saxophone, learning composition and arranging. He then stayed in New York. He performed live as an alto saxophone player, and then traveled to Boston, Paris, London, and New York, developing his street performances. After returning to Japan, his street performances in front of the Seibu Department Store in Shibuya attracted a lot of attention, drawing hundreds of spectators every day, and he was featured on television, radio, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Since his album debut with "Sanshiro" (SONY), Sanshiro has been active in many areas, including live performances, radio shows, and music production for clubs. As can be seen from his work and activities, he has an international sensibility and is always on the lookout for new things, whether major or minor, which has never changed since his street performance days, and he continues to challenge himself with the fusion of different art forms and new media. Sanshiro's music creates a unique world that transcends cultural differences and language barriers.
Past major activities:
☆Recorded with Sean Lennon under the name GOW, advocated by Yoko Ono, and also appeared in a concert at the Tokyo Dome.
☆Regular appearances, won the Galaxy Award Radio Grand Prize ☆Debuted album in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong ☆Performed with Paul Stookey of PPM ☆Appeared in "Fashion Cantata 2012" at Toji Temple, the head temple of the Shingon sect.
☆He has released 40 CD albums.
Even now that he has appeared in many music scenes, he continues to perform on the streets as his roots, and at the core of his being is his love and kindness towards people.
Sanshiro, the "street corner minstrel," is still weaving songs somewhere today.
May the kindness and peace reach you too.
Official website: https://sax346.com
- Azumi Nishizawa, Piano
- Pianist, associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts of Cadiz, Spain, and president of the Japan Association of Friends of Falla.
Based in Granada, Spain, she is highly regarded around the world as a specialist in Spanish music. After graduating from the Conservatoire de Paris with a unanimous first prize, she was invited by Joaquin Soriano, a leading Spanish pianist and renowned professor, to move to Madrid. Since her debut at the Geneva Arts Association regular concert in 2002, she has been actively performing around the world. In addition to recitals in Europe and Asia and appearances at music festivals around the world, she has collaborated on a project with the baroque music group Extravaganz using the harpsichord. She is also active in a wide range of activities, including performing at events at Italy's fashion week, Pitti, and on musical theater tours with popular actors in both Spain and Japan. The band's concert in Rome in June 2010 was recorded and repeatedly broadcast on RAI (Italian national television) and CANAL 10, and in recognition of their active activities around the world, they were awarded the 2010 Internet Music Festival International Goodwill Award.
He has released three CDs of Spanish music from the prestigious Spanish label VERSO. "Manuel de Falla Complete Piano Works" (2010) attracted attention as a historic project to create one of the few complete piano works by the world-renowned Spanish composer Falla. All five titles released so far have also been released in Japan and all have been selected as Record Geijutsu Special Selections or Semi-Special Selections.
In 2003, he appeared and performed in the film "Fukumimi" (starring Kudo Kankuro and Tanaka Kunie). In 2004, he became a part-time professor at Shanghai Normal University. Since 2006, he has been performing in concerts and master classes in various locations as an exclusive Yamaha Spain-Portugal artist. In 2022, he founded the Japan Falla Friendship Association with the aim of researching and popularizing European Latin music, with a focus on Falla. He is a Concert Imagine artist.
Official website: https://sax346.com
Event Outline
| Date and time |
Doors open: 13:30 / Show starts: 14:00 (scheduled end time: 16:00) |
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| venue | Salon Le Damier at Karuizawa Ando Museum of Art |
| Ticket prices |
[For guests attending the recital who would like to also visit the museum]
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