Calendar: Performances, talks etc

Here are the performances scheduled:

2024:

2-3 March: Workshop with the new East Asian Performance Ensemble led by Professor Michael Ellison,
Bristol University, UK.

15-17 April: Blown off Course. Opera by Pedro Rebelo, commissioned by Miso Music, Lisboa, Portugal.
Place: Queen’s University, Belfast.

27-28 April: Bristol New Music Festival
Playing with the new Bristol East Asian Ensemble.

26 May: Kaiden ceremony, Myoan-ji, Kyoto, Japan.

1-2 June: The sound of Antiquity: Sound walk.
With music anthropologist Eva Fock
The “band” apart from myself: Ying-Hsueh Chen (perc) and Anders
Børup (voice).

9 June: Solo concert, honkyoku, Løgumkloster, Denmark.

15 September: Solo concert, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland

17-28 September: Tour with koto players Shimonoto Ayumi and Sakura Yuka.
20.09: Concert/workshop Aarhus University – in collaboration with Japanese Studies
21.09: Concert at Papaya Music, Huset I Hasserisgade, Aalborg
23.09: Concert in Göteborg, Sweden
27.09: School Concert and workshop for children, Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
28.09: Concert, Koncertkirken as part of Copenhagen World Music Festival

8-10 October: ICTM Nordic Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
In the panel: New developments to the archaeology of sound in the Nordic countries:
Eva Fock (Copenhagen, D): From kitchen midden to orchestra pit
Kiku Day (London, D): Exploring sound with materials from antiquity: a performance research
Riitta Rainio (Helsinki, F): “Is there power in the mountain?” Acoustic measurements and archival
study of Finnish historical rock sites
Gjermund Kolltveit (Nesodden, N): Where did the fairies play? Some thoughts on landscape,
resonance, and folk traditions

26 October: Concert

PAST PERFORMANCES

11 February 2024: ESS European Shakuhachi Society Online Event. Teaching beginners
More info here

11 January 2024: Genshin Concert (Music and animation from the computer game Genshin Impact)
Place: Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Arnie Roth, conductor
More info here

13 January: Genshin Concert (Music and animation from the computer game Genshin Impact)
Carnegie Hall, New York
Genshin Concert Orchestra
Eric Roth, conductor
More info here

21 January: European Shakuhachi New Year Concert 2024. Online.
More info click here
Registration for free is here

25 January: Opening of exhibition, Cathrine Raben Davidsen og Kapwani Kiwanga at CPH Contemporary
https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/kapwani-kiwanga/
https://copenhagencontemporary.org/en/cathrine-raben-davidsen/

30 January: Playing at an Award Ceremony, Ikast-Brande county, Central Jutland.

18 September 2023: Soundwalks: The Sound of Antiquity
Place: Kongskilde.

17 September: Ancestral Modernism: Harvest Concert in collaboration with Golden Days Festival.
Bådehuset, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen.

4-6 September: Ancient music – project with music anthropologist Eva Fock

22-23 August 2023 Soundwalks: The Sound of Antiquity
Place: Thisted County.

7-20 August 2023: Performances in Estonia and Finland.

12-13 August: Zen Buddhist Retreat with shakuhachi classes at Sanneji, Finland. (https://sanneji.zazen.fi/en/)

17 August: Concert at Zen Buddhist Centre Sampo, Finland
More dates to be announced

30 August 2023 Team Nosaru
Koncertkirken, Copenhagen World Music Festival 2023

13-19 July 2023: International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, Ghana.
More dates

20-23 July 2023
European Shakuahchi Society Annual Summer School in Dublin

12-14 June 2023 The sound of Antiquity: Sound walk.
With music anthropologist Eva Fock
The “band” apart from myself: Ying-Hsueh Chen (perc) and Anders
Børup (voice).

2 June 2023: Solo performance and performance in collaboration with DJ Mai Hiura at Klub22’s tent at Northside Festival, Århus, Denmark.

18-21 May 2023: Teaching Fuke Myōan Shakuhachi at Zen monastery in
Germany
Place: Hokuozan Sogenji Zen Monestary, Birkenweg 1, Assendorf,
Germany
Time: 19-21 May 2023. Arrival on the 18th before 18:00
Shakuhachi teacher: Kiku Day (Fuke Myōan shakuhachi style)
Zen sessions: ShoE, the abbot of Hokuozan
Arr: Torben Sottaku Pedersen

6-7 May 2023 Workshop with Gunnar Jinmei Linder at the Royal College of
Music, Stockholm.

21-28 April 2023 Duo Concerts and workshops together with
Yamada koto player Shimonoto Ayumi
21.04.23: Workshop/Concert, Copenhagen (private event – corporation)
22.04.23: Concert/Workshop at the Copenhagen Sakura Festival,
Langelinje, Copenhagen. 12:45-13:15 Main stage
14:15-15:15 Second stage
23.04.23: Workshop and short concert for Japanese school in Aarhus
24.04.23: Concert at Verdenmusik i Nørre Snede, NSKUBIB, Nørre Snede
Add: Solbakkevej 15B, 8766 Nørre Snede. 19:30. 80 kr for
medlemmer af NSKUBIB, 100 kr for ikke-medlemmer.
25.04.23: Concert/Workshop at Højer Efterskole, Højer
26.04.23: Concert/Workshop at Aarhus University, collaboration with
Japanese Studies
27.04.23: Concert Sct Lukas Kirke, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen
Christian Richardts Vej 1A, 1951 Frederiksberg
17:00

14 April 2023: Solo performance at Det Turkise Telt, Aarhus, Denmark.
I will play at 20:45 before Poil Ueda, a band featuring Ueda Junko,
the biwa player. It will be an unusual and FUN evening!
https://www.turkislive.com/koncerter/poilueda

13-14 April 2023: British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference.
University of Edinburg. Paper on shakuhachi during WWII.
https://bfe2023.wordpress.com

26 March 2023
Ancestral Modernism concert with Ying-Hsueh Chen, Anne Eisensee and Letty Stott + workshop with Eva Fock at Bådehuset, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen, DK
The Schedule of the Day:
14:45 Ritualistic Calling
15:00 Concert
16:30- 17:30 Mini hands-on workshop (making conch-shell mouthpiece, trying conch-shells, bone/shell instruments), hanging out.

28 January at 14:00 EST/20:00 CET
Guest speaker at the Japanese Performing Arts – Special Interest Group, Society for Ethnomusicology

27 January 2023 at 19:00 CET
Talk on Pilgrimage Shikoku88 with Kenneth Larsen
Boest Forsamlingshus

Lisbon, Portugal – January

13 January 2023 : World Premiere of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30

anuary 2023 : World Premiere of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30

14 January 2023: Performance of Blown off Course – a chamber opera by Pedro Rebelo. Performance at O’culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, 19:30

https://www.misomusic.me/concertslist/121314012023