We just got back from Russia.
Ryazan was cancelled because of the government choosing to use the hall at the last minute.
We had a busy tour but go t to speak to audience members
Had a fun time there, though it was very busy with shows everytnight
Will be doing workshops and copncert sin Hawaii look for dates on calendar
2/19 in Honolulu
Oahu
2/18-23
Hilo
2/23-25
Maui 2/25/-28
Oahu 2/28
We are announcing the Symphony space concert on June 12th 2011 Sunday 7pm
06/03/2011 Sunday Tula one show ?
07/03/2011 Monday Ryazan one show
08/03/2011 Tuesday Arkhangelsk one show
09/03/2011 Wednesday Tver one show
10/03/2011 Thursday St. Petersburg one show
11/03/2011 Friday Moscow one show
12/03/2011 Saturday Moscow two? show
13/03/2011 Sunday Yaroslavl one show
14/03/2011 Monday Ivanovo one show
LAst minute event in San diego and lesson trip in SF, LA and SD
still have some opening ifi nterested for taiko or shakuhachi lessons
NACA showase midatlantic at 3pm see you there.
I have a great 1.8 and a2.7 available from Ichijo , ask me for prices
At this time of economic downturn, we need your support to help us with our programs. Grants are getting smaller- but we are still committed to bring you high quality and entertaining program.
Please email us at shaku8@aol.com to donate
We are a 501 c 3 Tax Exempt organization and your donations are tax deductible to the extend of the law.
We just got a City grant to help with our community concerts, Symphony space and Inwood park.
We want to thank the City of New York!!!! for their continuing support
http://dnainfo.com/20100830/washington-heights-inwood/inwood-moves-beat-of-japanese-drums-at-annual-taikoza-concert
We had a great turnout of the concert in Inwood. Growing number of audicne members and they are coming from far even Brooklyn and surrounding areas.
Great to see that people are catching up and making it one of their annual outing.
We are hoping to get the grants for 2011!
Just back from the trip to Brazil and Argentina. Sao Paulo was intense week of shakuhachi playing and concert, workshops. We had a concert with koto and organizer MAtheus Fereira playing also on the Shakuhachi Argentina was about Taiko, shakuhachi and fue afficionado are still few in numbers, we hope to change that soon. Buenos Aires Taiko performed with me on Saturday night 8/7/10 at the British Art Center.
Thank you to everyone who helped out and made this possible. Looking forward to more concerts and workshop in the fututre
Concert is still in the works-still waiting definite for Ocotober or November of this year
Concert and lessons, workshops available mid to end of July 2010
Also Argentina in end of July early August
Master Yokoyama just passed away in the morning of April 21st from Colon Cancer surrounded by some of his disciples and his family.
One of the greatest shakuhachi performers of our times. He premiered the piece "November Steps and Eclipse for shakuhachi and Biwa by Takemitsu Toru that made him world famous.
He was my teacher for the Wadatsumi-do style music.
His renditions of the pieces gave them a new dimension and made the songs very powerful and soulful. He will be dearly missed.
He had not been playing shakuhachi for some time now having suffered two strokes.
I feel very fortunte to have been able to study with him and learn so much from him.
As member of Taikoza i was introduced to Yokoyama Sensei in 81 by Mr Den and Furuya sensei- I was very fortunate to have been guided towards him as later on , after listening to a lot of performers, he was the one that really touched me the deepest with his playing.
RIP
Lessons are available at our studio in Midtown.
please contact us at the Taiko Center of New York
shaku8@aol.com
Finished Teaching in Branson, MO - the shoji Tabuchi show is opening on APril 8th at 7:30pm go check them out and got see the largest odaiko in the US.
It has been warmer in Missouri but cooled of.
There are a series of Taiko workshops in New York.
They will be held at the Bowery Poetry club.
The first one the week after the Symphony SPace concert.
March 14th at the Bowery Poetry Club for bowery Kids at noon
2 hour workshop fo r Adults at the Bowery Poetry Club on Saturday March 20th at 11-1pm
I am going to be teaching in the LA and SF area on January 16- 25- ontact me if interested to do some lessons or workshop
workshops and lessons in hawaii.
Please contact me to book lessons.Shaku8@aol.com
We have some new pieces that we are doing for this concert and hope that we get support of the community as it is important for our future grants applications.
Looking forward to many more community concerts in New York . Please support and come to see the concert if you want to havemore of these concerts happening.
We had a good crowd at the concert. The new compositions were very interesting too and in different styles.
From Germany we had a more baroque influenced piece. There has been talk since last year of recording some of the music and we are hoping we can find some funds to do this in a near future. If anyone knows of grants that apply to recording that would be helpful.
We also did a small presentation for Harvard Student at the Lamont Library on Saturday and had a lot fo interesting questions from students and a lot of interest some students even doing some paper on muisc buisness.
The is happening this weekend at the Brookline Library.
It will be the world premiere of three new pieces.
The concert will also include koto and shakuhachi traditional pieces.
check the calendar for more info.
We had great end of Tour in Switzerland osme pics will follwo.
We have some other performance sin the greater New York area, suchas Paramus and then upstate NY next week.
Concert at symphony Space of Shakuhachi and koto music by Marco Lienhard
Thalia theatre December 3rd at 8pm
Taikoza will perform at Symphony Space on March 7th 2010
With new compostions and favorites this sure will be an event not to miss.
We just came back from Torino. Great town and theatre was also very nice. we hada great crew that helped us make it all go smoothe. sold out crowd of about 1400. We were able to meet the audience members after the show and ended up almost selling out of the CD, we did have a few left for Milano.
We also played for a tea ceremony the next day at the Asian art museum.
We also played at the Allianz Theatre in Milano about 2000 people came to see the show and this time we tiotally sold out of CDS, never expecting to sell that many in two days as people mostly download music nowadays.
We are looking forward to the rest of the tour
Note: We will be in chiasso on Ocotber 3rd at the cinema teatro
Matsuri in Buenos Aires.
Playing in the Japanese Garden for the Taiko Matsuri in Buenos Aires was really a thrilling experience.
I have traveled quite a lot and played in all kinds of places, but this event was quite an event.
I got to Buenos Aires thanks to the hard work of Bruno and Buenos Aires Taiko.
I was wondering if it would not be too cold to play outside, as the previous days had been very cold.
The day of the festival was a perfect day, warm and beautiful sky. I only got to see part of the festival as we were setting up for a shakuhachi concert in another part of the garden.
I heard a few groups earlier in the morning and then later in the afternoon.
I was impressed with the power and spirit of every group.
It was very exciting to see so many groups in Argentina and I am sure I only saw a few.
The audience too was very attentive and cheering the drummers.
It just felt like a very special day.
I had the chance to perform some of my songs thanks again to members of BA Taiko who learned my songs for this event. Everyone did a great job and it was great to be able to bring a different style to the city.
One of the highlights was to see all the taiko groups perform together as a finale, I played along playing the FUE and the energy was so intense that the audience seem to be thrilled and excited that when the song ended, they seemed not to want it to end and demanded another repeat of the finales, which happened with even more energy.
To see all these groups together was so emotional it gave goose bumps feeling that energy being sent in to the universe. A very memorable festival indeed
MArco will be giving some workshops at the taiko conference in downtown LA in Little Tokyo from August 6-9
Available to do lessons on Fue or shakuhachi on Skype, contact for more info
Here are the info for the Brazil concerts and workshops- hope you read Portuguese...'
Marco Lienhard no Brasil Horário: 15 julho 2009 às 20:30 a 18 julho 2009 às 9:00
Local: Centro Cultural Rio Verde
Organizado por: Matheus Ferreira
Descrição do evento:
Nos dias 15 e 18 julho vamos receber o Mestre Marco Lienhard para 2 concertos de shakuhachi em São Paulo e um workshop de shakuhachi para alunos iniciantes/intermediários.
Marco Lienhard morou 15 anos no Japão estudando Taiko, o Fue e o Shakuhachi. Ele fez inúmeras turnês pelo mundo como membro do grupo Ondekoza (1981-1998). Ondekoza foi o primeiro grupo de Taiko a fazer turnês internacionais para divulgar a arte da percussão Japonesa.
Para a programação clique abaixo:
Divulgação.JPG
Preços:
Concertos - R$ 30,00 cada
Workshop de 4 horas - R$ 100,00 será disponibilzada uma shakuhachi de PVC para cada aluno se necessário, e deverá ser devolvida ao final do workshop. Teremos shakuhachis a venda no local - PVC e Bambu.
Atividades de Matheus - Danilo - Shen - Tamie Kitahara - R$ 10,00 cada
Haverá preços especiais se você optar por fazer todo o programa. Consulte-nos.
Aulas particulares com o Marco disponíveis ao longo de toda a semana, se quiser agendar me contate no: matheus@shakuhachi.art.br.
Marco estudou shakuhachi com o grande mestre japonês Yokoyama Katsuya, que mais tarde o convidou para tocar nos Festivais do International Shakuhachi Keshukan.
Em 1995, Marco Lienhard fundou o grupo Taikoza com o qual tem feito turnês pela Europa, Rússia, México e Estados Unidos.
Ele também lançou vários CD’s de Taiko e Shakuhachi aclamados pela crítica.
Lienhard também se apresentou nas casas de concerto mais prestigiadas do mundo como o Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, Boston Symphony Hall and também se apresentou com a Ópera de Nova York. Também compôs uma parte da trilha do game premiado do Nintendo Wii: Red Steel. Fez diversas apresentações na TV em redes como: NBC, ABC, History Channel, ESPN, PBS e muitas outras.
Para maiores informações por favor acesse: www.marcolienhard.com e www.taikoza.com
Crírica sobre Marco Lienhard:
Artigo por Sr. Kishi no Jornal Hogaku, Tokyo, Japão:
“Um extraordinário tocador de shakuhachi, Marco Lienhard acabou de lançar seu novo CD, uma verdadeira amostra de talento e sensibilidade musical. Desde as interpretações de Kinko-Ryu Honkyoku do tesouro nacional Yamaguchi Goro que eu não sentia a necessidade de escutar shakuhachi. A interpretação de Marco Lienhard do Honkyoku da escola Watazumi é incrível e todos estudando este estilo deveriam ouvi-lo. Sua interpretação de Amazing Grace foi tão poderosa e tocante ao coração que me lembrou de cantoras gospel como Mahalia Jackson.”
Workshops, performances in Argentina at the end of June
Contact us if interested to do lesson with Marco Lienhard
Also possibly Chile and Brazil
Check the dates in PA, OH and Upstate New York in calendar
Going back to hawaii for some performances and teaching. Let me know if you are interested in some lessons. Will be also in Missouri Branson from 3/7-13 and then back to New yOrk for a week or so
Busy spring look for our calendar to see you at a theatre near you!
There will be family concerts again in March 1st, at the Bowery Poetry club at noon and then in Jamaica, Queens at the Jamaica Arts Center at 10 and 11:30AM on May 28th.
Look on Calendar for more info
A dear friend, musician, Taikoza member and East Winds ensemble member just suddenly passed away in early December. She will be dearly missed by everyone.
She can be heard on the East Winds Ensemble CD: the Miyazaki Anime Music 2.
You can now dowload the CD and buy a copy on cd baby .com. Here is the link:"
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ewsensemble2
The new East Winds Ensemble CD that was released in Japan is now available here in the US with a new cover.
This the second CD of Music from Anime by H. Miyazaki.
You will be able to get it Cd or downloads at cdbaby.com and later on iTunes, napster ,etc
Enjoy.
Thank you for your support and thanks to LMCC and Dept of Cultural affairs of New York for making these concerts possible.
check calendar for next concerts
We had a great response in Georgia at the Coastal Community college.
Great help from the student activity students.
We hope to be back there in the future.
We might be going to other parts of Georgia first.
Check the calendar for new South East Dates to come.
always available for lessons in the city where i perform, just send me an email to check availabilty.
shaku8@aol.com
You can buy ticket for the October concert of East winds at:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/147066
TM phone number 212-352-3101 or 1-866-811-4111 and www.theatermania.com
We had a great turnout again this year about 250-300 people.
A lot of dancing kids, that just could not hold themselves from bouncing and wanting to play too. We will post pictures soon.
We had a great turnout again this year about 250-300 people.
A lot of dancing kids, that just could not hold themselves from bouncing and wanting to play too. We will post pictures soon.
East Winds, Inc. got a grant to present programs in New York city.
We will be able to present some programs in the other boroughs too.
The end of summer is getting closer and we are getting ready to the busy Autumn season. Thereare quite some travels involved too.
Make sure to check the calendar page.
We havea few goals for the coming year.
We are looking for a new studio, with mirrors and bigger space If you know of a place please let us know.
working on several new CDs and new songs
We are working new songs in our concerts and working on them - the best is to hear them and get new ideas as we play them and hearing everyone's solos also help in reworking them.
I really recommend a trip to the Southern Hemisphere. Try for a mild season, July can be pretty chilly.
Looking forward to another trip.
Will be posting some pictures from my trip South. Still in the middle of many different project and trips.
Hope to see some of you in Vermont at the kosa festival
kosamusic.com
Do not miss this concert in Chelsea at a beautiful church St Paul in Chelsea on 315 West 22nd street.
You can get your tickets for Symphony space concert at :
http://www.symphonyspace.org/tickets
Hold the date November 23rd at 7pm . Taikoza will beback at Symphony Space with some new compositions and new arrangements.
See you there
There will be a Manhattan park and queens park concert this summer.
July 22nd in Queens at 11AM check calendar
8/23 at 6PM in Isham Park in Inwood by 207 stop on A or 215stop on 1
We will also have Concert Tickets available on the site for advance New York ticket discounted tickets.
May 2nd not to miss, we will also include Miyazaki Hayao music that we recorded- music of Spirited away, Mononoke, etc
Check the calendar for info on tickets.
See you there.
Will be giving workshop in Australia and New Zealand and Tasmania in June and July
email for more info
Auckland 6/25-28
Hamilton 6/29-7/1
Sydney 7/2-8
Tasmania
7/10-14
MArco Lienhard composed the music for the Wrath of God silent movie that is part of the extras in the DVD of The Dragon Painter.
It has just been relasesd on MArch 18th
by Milestonefilms.com
This is an excting concert , new venue for a more intimate concert with Taikoza but as exciting and magical as ever.
Dont miss this concert.
May 2nd 8pm . New compostiions and favorites perfromed on Perciussion, Taiko, Koto and Shakuhachi.
This will be an exciting evening not to be missed.
Symphonyspace.org for tickets check calendar for more info.
We are very pleased to announce that the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has awarded us with a grant from 2008 Manhattan Community Arts Grant Look for concert announcements soon.
We have a date for one of the concert which is Thalia at Symphony space, May 2nd.Located at 95th Street and Broadway.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has Awarded East Winds a grant for Taikoza concert Series in Manhattan , look for free concerts in the parks in summer and concerts in venues around town.
March 2nd at Bowery Poetry Club for family show at noon for Bowery Kids and later Symphony space concert in Autumn 2008.
We finished the recording for a second edition of Miyazaki's film music- music from Totoro, Proco Rosso, Howl's Moving castle, etc.
It will be available on Itunes in a few months after the editing is done in Japan.
We will make an announcement when it is ready.
we are also working on a new Taikoza CD and Shakuhachi Honkyoku CD this year or early 2009.
1455 64th Street Emeryville.
contact Susan if you are interested to join thew workshop:
etaiko@pacbell.net
Happy New Year 2008
Taiko was present at Felt Boston to ring or drum the New Year in.
If you are in Hawaii - will be holding a series of workshops in Hawaii.
will be in on Big Island 1/22-28; Maui 1/26-29; Oahu 1/28-2/1
and back in February still have open dates for interested parties, please contact me for scheduling taiko, Fue, shakuhachi workshops
Thank you for everyone who came to the concert thank you for your support.
We will have some picture from the performance online in the coming month.
Happy Holidays.
Get you tickets early not to miss this great show.
New exciting compositions and tradtional pieces will be performed
Guest: Koto master Ryuko Mizutani
Also to be on mailing list for concerts or to stay in touch, please go to the listbaby and join the mailing list to get important notices for new CDS or great concerts and events. See you soon
Just finished a small tour in California. There was a regular concert as well a school show in Pasadena.
Will beback soon for some more wqorkshops and teaching Taiko as well as Shakuhachiin the LA and Bay area, so feel free t ocntact me if you are interested.
SOme dates in California'sBay are and Chicago unfortunately were cancelled- we still hope to make it there some time soon.
We will still be in in Los Angeles 10/14 and 16th that si only MArco Lienhard and we will be in Detroit on 11/7
Sorry for those who came to see the show and found a dark theatre, the producer did not seem necessary to put a note up, so I encourage you to write them letters of complaint!!!
Here is the link to buy tickets.12/16/07
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=411&pid=6066862
Thank you for everyone coming to the concert. We had the biggest crowd of all our past Isham Park concerts.
We hope to get support for next year and be back.
Great turnout and a lot of children also this year.
Hope to see you all at Symphony Space
Winter Solstice celebrated with Taiko drums.
Symphony Space on 95th and broadway
Sunday 16th December 7PM
Tickets are one sale now.
Great Early Christmas , Kwanaza, Hannukah gifts-
Tikctes: 212-864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org
http://concert-foto.narod.ru/taikoza_20061208/
We will hold our annual free concert in the Park on Sunday September 16th at 6PM.
Rain date is Sunday same time 9/23/07
the concert is done in the Bruce's Garden part of the Isham PArk at the end of Park Terrace East South of 215th Street, NY 10034
A train to 207th and walk north through the park on West side of broadway or take the 1 train to 215th and walk west to 215th steps and top of steps take a left to park
With the support from Mr Reynolds from the Isham Restoration project( a community garden project)
You watch a short clip and listen ot music on our web site on Myspace.com under Taikoza also MArco Lienhard
We are getting ready for our annual concert . The date has changed again so now it will be December 16th Sunday at 7PM.
Symphony Sapce.
We hope to see you then and check our new songs out and also your favorite songs.
There will be a family show on Sunday 29th at noon, come with your family for this exciting show full of fun for the whole family
If you are in the Hamptons catch us on July 18th at the PArrish Museum in Southampton,NY 10 AM and 2pm
This short tour will be a private performance tour, but everyone is very excited about it.
We just shipped the drums on air freight and getting ready for the tour.
this week you can catch us in different cities Stamford, New Haven we are also doing some shows for schools in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn
You can hear some sample of the Red Steel score on Itune. It is available now.
The CD is coming out on May 29th.
Plenty of Taiko, Shakuhachi, Nohkan, Fue, Koto, shamisen, etc
An exciting score
Another part is in the work and probably or hopefully will have some taiko included again
http://playbillrecords.com/brianstokesmitchell/
A great CD overall and check the Lazy Afternoon song
Nintendo/Orbisoft is releasing the music of the wii game:
Red Steel
It will be available soon.
We recorded some Taiko, shakuhachi, Fue tracks for a good portion of the game
It seems that a lot of people are using their phone to film in theaters.
there are also some clips from Russia and our sumo tour last year.
Here are a few listed from Youtbube under Taikoza that i found.
There are also promotional clips from Urbisoft for Red Steel, the nintendo wii game:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Taikoza
The Tour in Switzerland was very successfull and we are getting ready for another tour in 2009, so look for us there.
We also met with the local Taiko group in Geneva, Remi Taiko- we had a pot luck dinner at their practice place in Geneva. Good luck to the first Swiss Taiko group.
http://bestof.ign.com/2006/wii/23.html
Best Original Score
Red Steel
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Paris (France)
Why It Rocked: Red Steel's ambitious soundtrack comes from famed composer Tom Salta, who has contributed works, in part or whole, to everything from the 2006 Olympics to Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Project Gotham Racing 3. His discography spans hit videogames, music, television and movies. That noted, his Red Steel soundtrack could be his best to date. The game's music was recorded using live Japanese instruments, from the Koto to the Shakuhachi, and performed by the percussion group Taikoza. Meanwhile, as players explore traditional and modern overseas environments, they will hear everything from thundering choir singers to violin solos, just as they'll encounter bits of electronica, jazz, hip hop, lounge, Japanese pop and yes, even (literally, as it happens) elevator music. The selection not only has a richness and definition often lacking in videogames, but the compositions are catchy and memorable, too. Zelda's tracks earn the game a runner-up spot, but Ubisoft's genuine recordings obliterate Nintendo's MIDI renditions.
Runners-Up:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
So it seems that the Wii is a hit, the game that we recodered for is called Red Steel so check it out if you have the Wii, you will be able to hear the 6 ft taiko and bamboo flutes as well as other taiko and percussions we used for the recording- you can hear us in the parts where the swords is used and where the game bring syou to Japan.
We are getting ready for our annual Taikoza concert at Symphony Space , last year we did the show in Chinatown- so we are back on the Upper West Side.
We will have new compositions and of course the signature pieces such as Yatai bayashi and Hachijo.
Collaboration with our guest artists, who will also be in St Louis at the end of the month for an East Winds Ensemble concert
The Tour in Russia is in the works, we are still awaiting the final tour schedule.
But it seems that we will be back in Moscow and St Petersburg and also play in some of the Baltic Republic.
Early in the year 2007 we will then head toi Switzerland for a busy schedule, we will also be doing some educational programs and perform in schools
A new Shakuhachi. koto record is in the works look for it in the future.
Masayo Ishigure is the artist releasing the CD