Weaving Japanese Sounds - Music of Modern Japan - May 11 Concert at Tenri
Cultural Institute, New York Features Works by Six Contemporary Japanese
Composers

'Weaving Japanese Sounds' will present their fourth annual Weaving
Japanese Sounds - Music of Modern Japan concert on Friday, May 11, 2007
- 8:00 PM at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43a West 13th Street in Manhattan.

Repertoire for this concert will be Take the Six for marimba and
electronics by Moto Osada, Toki no Mon for violin, piano, and percussion
by Somei Satoh, Two Existences for two pianos by Toshi Ichiyanagi,
Kamunagi for koto and percussion by Akira Nishimura, Two Chansons for
soprano and piano by Mari Takano and Unaccountable Espressivo for violin,
cello, and piano by Dai Fujikura.  More information about the composers
at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april07/WJS_041307.htm.

Performers will include Masayo Ishigure, koto, Airi Yoshioka, violin,
Sean Katsuyama, cello, Matthew Gold percussion, Greg Giannascoli, marimba,
Tamara Hardesty, soprano, Blair McMillen, piano and Weaving Japanese
Sounds Founder and Artistic Director Sachiko Kato, piano.  More about
the performers at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april07/WJS_041307.htm.

Suggested donation for this concert is $15 per person.  Reservations
(which are suggested) can be made through 'Weaving Japanese Sounds'
at 212-932-9582.  For more concert information, please visit
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/april07/WJS_041307.htm.

'Weaving Japanese Sounds' Founder and Artistic Director Sachiko Kato
was recently featured in the Juilliard centenary publication, 'Dance
Drama Music: 100 Years of the Juilliard School,' as one of the 100
outstanding alumni, pianist Sachiko Kato has enchanted audiences all
over the United States with her beautiful sonorous sound in a wide range
of repertoire.  A winner of the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano
Competition and the Pro-Piano Recital Series Audition, Ms.  Kato has
performed extensively both as soloist and chamber musician throughout
the United States and Japan even since a debut recital at Carnegie Weill
Hall in 1994.  She has been also heard at the Lincoln Center Alice Tully
Hall and Performing Arts Library, Steinway Hall in New York, the Los
Angeles County Museum, Norris Theater of Performing Arts in Los Angeles,
and Old First Church and Crocker Art Museum in San Francisco, LiveArts
in Massachusetts, Arcady Music Festival in Maine, among others.  Her
pianism has been feature-broadcasted by KMZT FM and WKCR FM.  Her
performances have won such critical acclaim as: 'Kato plays with finesse
and a lovely, delicate touch,' and brings 'interpretive clarity' with
'impressively crisp finger work and consistent energy.' (New York Concert
Review) A native of Osaka, Japan, Ms.  Kato grew up in Los Angeles,
California where she started to gain recognition as a promising artist
at an early age.  She made a debut performance with the Brentwood Symphony
Orchestra at age 15.  After receiving her Bachelor of Music from California
State University Northridge, she received a scholarship to enter The
Juilliard School for her Master of Music degree.  Among her teachers are
world-renowned pianists Russell Sherman and Jerome Lowenthal.  Visit her
online at http://www.sachikokato.com/.

For press inquiries or more information about Weaving Japanese Sounds,
please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or
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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com

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