My Profile
There is my profile about music field and non-music field.
On January 28th. 1977, I was born in Haramachi City, Fukushima, Japan. I attended Haramachi the 3rd elementary school, Haramachi the 1st junior high school, and Haramachi High school. When I was 4 years old, I started to study the piano. When I wan 9 years old, I started to play a trumpet at a brass ensemble club at an elementary school. When I entered to the junior high school, I had belonged to wind band club, then I started play a euphonium. When I was 15 years old, I started to learn the euphonium with Mr. Ken-ichi Watanabe and started to learn the piano and solfege with Mrs. Masako Watanabe. When I was 17 years old, I started to learn the euphonium with Mr. Toru Miura, who is the most famous euphonium player in Japan. Then, I passed the entrance audition of Kunitachi College of Music and I entered to the school as a euphonium major student.
When I was freshman, I attended the Euro-Japanese Musical Academy that was held in Nagano, Japan and I studied with Mr. Steaven Mead, who is one of the greatest euphonium players in the world and who is British player. At the academy, I was chosen as one of players who could play at the final concert. When I was sophomore, I was chosen as one of semi-finalists at the 11th Leonard Farcone International Euphonium Tuba Competition. Then, I got a scholorship from the Kunitachi College of Music. I made a solo recital at Haramachi City. When I was junior, I was also chosen as one of seni-finalists at the competition. I won the Concerto Competition at the Kunitachi College of Music and I performed Euphonum Concerto 2nd movement by Jan Bach with college orchestra. When I was senior, I was chosen as a player who can play at a wind and percussion fuculty concert of the Kunitachi College of Music. I won the 15th Japan Wind and Percussion Competition, which is the biggest competition for wind and percussion players. Then, I performed Concerto by Derek Bourgeois with Tokyo Symphony conducted by Mr. Norichika Iimori, who is one of famouse young conductors in the world at the memorial concert of the competition.
I graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music with getting Yatabe prize, which is given for students who got the highest grade at each department. I attended Kunitachi College of Music Graduate Concert, Yomiuri Debut Concert, Yamaha Brass Debut Concert, the memorial concert of the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition. Also, I had a solo recital at Soma City, Fukushima. I gathered over 800 people at the recital. I performed at FM Recital at NHK-FM radio.
I have studied at the University of Michigan from September, 1999 as a master's student of Euphonium Performance and I am studying the euphonium with Mr. Fritz Kaenzig, who is one of the most famouse tuba players or tuba instructor in the United States. I am a member of Symphony Band of the University of Michigan now. I was the finalist at the 1999-2000 University of Michigan Concerto Competition. I attended the Bach Festival at the University of Michigan. Also, I will attend the competition solo euphonium and tuba-euphonium devision at ITEC 2000 held in Canada. At the competition, I was a semi-finalist at the solo competition and was a finalist at the quartet competition.
In this summer, I had my own recital in Japan. there were about 450 people. I played Boccarali's fantasia di Concerto, Schumann's Fantasy pieces, ans so on.
