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| Masayo Ishigure began playing the koto and
jiuta shamisen at the age of five in Gifu, Japan. Since arriving
in New York City in 1992 Ms. Ishigure has performed at Lincoln
Center, Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall, BAM, Merkin Hall,
Trinity Church. Ms. Ishigure and Peter Boal (NY
City Ballet Principal Dancer) were guest
artists with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Ishigure
has also performed in Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, Russia, Belarus,
and throughout the United States. She has participated
in music festivals in Holland, Germany, France and Thiland.
In 2001 and 2005, Ms. Ishigure and her students
performed with koto master Kazue Sawai at the Freer Gallery
of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. In 2005 she
and her students also appeared with Kazue Sawai at Towson
University in Maryland and the Asia Society in NYC. Since
1992, Ms. Ishigure has been teaching koto and shamisen at
Wesleyan University (CT) as an artist in residence where
she formed the Wesleyan Koto Ensemble. She also offers private
lessons as the only Sawai Koto Academy Instructor in the
New York City and Washington DC area. In August, 2005, she
recorded koto music for the soundtrack of the movie "Memoirs
of a Geisha" with Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams. In March
2006, Ms. Ishigure was a guest soloist of the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project She released her own CD "Grace" in 2001
and East Winds Ensemble's Theme Music from Hayao Miyazaki's
Anime Songs in 2004. |
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