Eastern Taiko Conference 2012

Wesleyan University Middletown, CT, United States

I am very excited to be participating in the 2012 Eastern Taiko Conference. I will be teaching two workshops, on the topics of chappa playing and lateral drumming/ katsugi-daiko, as well as performing in concert at the conference with good friends On Ensemble and Kaoru Watanabe. Should be great fun! Visit the conference site here […]

Workshop & Performance at Timpano-Percussion

Timpano-Percussion 2525 Rachel east, Montréal, QC, Canada

On August 10th, New York city based flutist and taiko artist Kaoru Watanabe will be visiting Montreal for a special event at Timpano-Percussion. Kaoru will instruct a taiko workshop open to the general public and we will do a short concert performance later in the evening, along with Barbara Merjan, taiko player from New York. […]

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Festival des traditions du monde de Sherbrooke

Festival des traditions du monde de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

Pleased to announce a special new project for this year's Festival des traditions du monde de Sherbrooke: I am will be performing in a new quartet with Montreal's Ignatius Kim, and two visitors from NYC, Barbara Merjan and my good friend and distinguished musician, Kaoru Watanabe. Very excited about putting this music together. Join us […]