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"She wowed everyone!! It was pretty amazing indeed. Hiraoka-san is such a thoughtful, gracious person and an unbelievable performer." | ||||||||||||
"We thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated Ms. Hiraoka's superb lecture/performance and class visits. My students told me how impressed and touched they were by her music." | "Ms.Yoko Hiraoka performed beautifully and brought the stories from the Tales of Heike that we were reading in class to life with excitement and elegance. She held the audience in suspense at one moment, and charmed them in the next. She brought us real insight into the pleasures of biwa music." | | ||||||||||
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March 2 | San Antonio Texas | San Antonio Museum |
March 4 | San Antonio Texas | Our Lady of the Lakes University |
June 28 | Loveland, Colorado | Concert |
September 27 | Kansas University, Lawrence | Concert with David Wheeler, shakuhachi |
September 29 | Kansas City Japan Festival | Concert with David Wheeler, shakuhachi |
October 11 | Colorado State University | Biwa lecture/recital |
October 26 | Pomona College, CA | Biwa lecture/recital |
October 29 | UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, Los Angeles, CA | Biwa lecture/recital |
November 6 | Dickinson College, PA | Biwa lecture/recital |
November 7 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | Biwa lecture/recital |
November 8 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ | Biwa lecture/recital |
November 30 | University of Virginia | Biwa lecture/recital |
2007
February 7-8 | Texas A & M | Sankyoku Residency and concert |
February 20 | Yale University, Newhaven | Biwa lecture/recital |
March 5 | University of Florida, Gainesville | Biwa lecture/recital |
March 14-16 | Louisville, CO | Sankyoku teaching Intensive |
March 19 | Consulate General of Japan | Concert with David Wheeler (shakuhachi) |
March 22-April 8 | Kyoto, Japan | Biwa concert with Kõka Suga |
April 22-April 24 | Bowling Green State University | Biwa lecture/recital/residency |
April 30 | Furman University, SC | Biwa lecture/recital |
September 27 | Kansas City Japan Festival | with David Wheeler, shakuhachi |
Otober 9-13 | Loveland Colorado | Shakuhachi Autumn Camp of the Rockies |
Otober 21-22 | Duke University, NC | Biwa residency-concerts and lectures |
2008
In a formal concert setting Yoko Hiraoka presents the very finest Japanese traditional and modern music. Her stage presence is elegant and powerful. The music, colorful and evocative. The full range of the instruments -- Biwa, Koto, Shamisen and Jiuta Voice is demonstrated in music ranging from Edo-period classical pieces to recent Japanese compositions. Ms. Hiraoka also offers ensemble music with one of the world's great Shakuhachi players. For more information about Yoko Hiraoka's performances please contact David Sawyer at: david@japanshakuhachi.com
