During the tour, we did 9 events within 10 days in Denmark and southern Sweden: Concerts for a normal paying audience, workshops and concert/workshops for children, families, university students etc. We had a wonderful but intense time. It was also hard work, I did all the driving and also the organising. But it was fun. I learned a lot because ensemble music with koto and shamisen is not what I have been trainee in. I was also happy to combine my knowledge from being an ethnomusicologist and explain about Japanese music and music history while the koto players were tuning. To our biggest performance at Koncertkirken in Copenhagen, the Japanese ambassador Uyama Hideki and his wife attended the concert with the second secretary Onodera Rika. That was a great honour. The Japanese Embassy’s Facebook page showed:
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and on their webpage it looked like this:
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The sankyoku ensemble:
With the Ambassador couple Uyama:
Me playing solo: