Marco Lienhard: News

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

workshops and lessons in hawaii.
Please contact me to book lessons.Shaku8@aol.com

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

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.

Taikoza will perform at Symphony Space on March 7th 2010

With new compostions and favorites this sure will be an event not to miss.

Concert at symphony Space of Shakuhachi and koto music by Marco Lienhard
Thalia theatre December 3rd at 8pm

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

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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:
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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.”

Check the dates in PA, OH and Upstate New York in calendar

Workshops, performances in Argentina at the end of June
Contact us if interested to do lesson with Marco Lienhard
Also possibly Chile and Brazil