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Sawai Kazue

沢井 一恵

Sawai Kazue
Koto

Kazue Sawai is a 17-string bass koto player as well as a standard 13-string one with a wide repertoire ranging from koto classics to contemporary commissioned works as well as collaborations with jazz musicians. She began her studies at the age of eight with Michio Miyagi and graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. She made debut at joint recital with her husband, Tadao Sawai. She is a co-founder with husband of the Sawai Koto Institute in Tokyo.

Since 1978, she has toured widely as soloist, with her Koto Ensemble and in joint recitals with Tadao Sawai, pianist Aki Takahashi, and percussionist Sumire Yoshihara, appearing in concerts in Brazil, France, Germany, England, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Australia and USA as well as concerts in Japan. In addition she has appeared at major festivals: Border Crossing Festival ’90 (Toronto), Chamber Music/LA Festival ’90, Bang-On-A-Can ’89 & 90 (NY), Kodaly Music Festival ’87 (Hungary), West Berlin Festival ’81, Netherlands Festival ’79, Metamusik Festival ’78 (Berlin), Festival d’Automne ’78 (Paris), Tanglewood ’78 (USA). She has just performed at the Kennedy Center, Washing D.C. in October ’90.

In recent years, an exponent of contemporary music, she has collaborated with young composer/musicians and premiered their works such as John Zorn’s at the Bang-On-A-Can Festival, David Behrman, Carl Stone and Kazuo Uehara’s at Music From Japan ’90 (NY), Christian Wolff and John Cage’s at Studio 200 ’89 (Tokyo), and Takashi Kako’s koto concerto ’85. She has also worked with Yuji Takahashi, Ned Rothenberg and John King.

Kazue Sawai has received numerous awards and grants, including grants from Japan Foundation, Art Festival Excellent Performance Prize (79), and USA RCA record incentive award (72). In 1988, she spent a year in New York on ACC grant collaborating with American composers and players, and gave lecture-concerts at many universities in US.

Estudiantes

Álbumes

Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics

Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi

Pistas Grabadas

PiezasKanjiLongitudÁlbumInstrumento
Air of Prayer 14'37 Teizo Matsumura - Selected Works Vol II Koto
Aki Kaze no Kyoku 秋風の曲 17'16 Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Koto
Aurora 2 オ一ロラII 10'33 New Hogaku Koto Koto
Play Button Etenraku Hensokyoku 越天楽変奏曲 Masterpieces of the Koto Koto
Gekkō Rōteki 月光弄笛 03'38 Tsukikusa no Yume; Fukuda Rando Shakuhachi Meikyoku Shu Koto
Godan Ginuta 五段砧 09'40 Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Koto
Play Button Gosechi no Mai 五節の舞 13'26 Iris of Time Koto
Play Button Haru Sandai 春三題 03'53 Works of Katsutoshi Nagasawa Volume 4 Koto
Play Button Haru Sandai 春三題 04'42 Works of Katsutoshi Nagasawa Volume 4 Koto
Play Button Haru Sandai 春三題 04'51 Works of Katsutoshi Nagasawa Volume 4 Koto
Play Button Horses' Heads Were Toward Eternity 12'32 Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi Koto
Itotake いとたけ 07'45 Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū (zoku) vol. 26 (続三曲合奏大全集26) Koto
Play Button Koto Nijusô Sonata 筝二重奏ソナタ 04'46 Challenging Eternity Disk 06 Koto
Play Button Koto Nijusô Sonata 筝二重奏ソナタ 07'18 Challenging Eternity Disk 06 Koto
Play Button Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句 03'14 Iris of Time Koto
Play Button Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句 02'52 Iris of Time Koto
Play Button Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句 03'14 Iris of Time Koto
Play Button Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句 03'03 Iris of Time Koto
Play Button Koto uta Basho's 5 Haiku 箏歌、芭蕉五句 03'49 Iris of Time Koto
Midare Rinzetsu 乱輪舌 08'30 Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Koto
Midare Rinzetsu 乱輪舌 08'55 Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū vol. 10 (三曲合奏大全集10) Koto
Mizu no Hentai 水の変態 16'11 Koto Music - Tadao Sawai Plays Michio Miyagi Koto
Muika 茉梨花 14'42 Anthology of Modern Koto Music 3 Koto
Play Button Muika 茉梨花 14'37 Challenging Eternity Disk 19 Koto
Onoe no Matsu 尾上の松 23'11 Koto Music - Tadao Sawai Plays Michio Miyagi Koto
Play Button River of Times 時の河 10'06 Iris of Time Koto
Rokudan no Shirabe 六段の調 09'13 Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Koto
Play Button Song - Gossamer 18'25 Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi Koto
Play Button Stratums of Times 時の層 11'57 Iris of Time Koto
Trois Esquises 三つのエスキス 04'26 Challenging Eternity Disk 17 Koto
Trois Esquises 三つのエスキス 02'48 Challenging Eternity Disk 17 Koto
Trois Esquises 三つのエスキス 02'22 Challenging Eternity Disk 17 Koto
Play Button Trois Esquises 三つのエスキス 10'10 Hibiki - Contemporary Music for Japanese Traditional Instruments - 1 Koto
Tsubaki Saku Mura 椿咲く村 03'59 Tsukikusa no Yume; Fukuda Rando Shakuhachi Meikyoku Shu Koto
Tsukikusa no Yume 月草の夢 03'51 Tsukikusa no Yume; Fukuda Rando Shakuhachi Meikyoku Shu Koto
Play Button Wagakki no Tame no Shijusokyoku 和楽器のための四重奏曲 12'56 Hibiki - Contemporary Music for Japanese Traditional Instruments - 1 Koto
Wave - Koto Duet 箏二重奏曲 「波」 10'16 Challenging Eternity Disk 17 Koto
Play Button While I Was Crossing the Bridge 12'18 Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi Koto
Play Button Wind is Calling Me Outside, The 19'42 Wind is Calling Me Outside, The - Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi Koto
Yugure Gensokyoku 夕暮幻想曲 04'01 Tsukikusa no Yume; Fukuda Rando Shakuhachi Meikyoku Shu Koto
Zangetsu 残月 20'15 Midare - Kazue Sawai Plays Koto Classics Koto
San Shūsō 三糸遊奏 13'17 Sangen no Kiseki - 2 Shamisen