[Mine Kawakami Music Office Co., Ltd.] Mine Kawakami Kasuga Taisha Dedicated Piano Recital to be held on October 26, 2024
*Mine Kawakami Music Office Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 28, 2024
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Mine Kawakami Kasuga Taisha Shrine Dedicated Piano Recital to be held on October 26, 2024
*This year too, Mine Kawakami will perform a dedication recital at Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara. In 2024, please join us in discovering Mine Kawakami’s musical world, which has further deepened its sensibilities in the silence of nature in Finland, Scandinavia, and Colombia, South America. *
From 18:00 on Saturday, October 26th, Nara will once again be holding “Kawakami Mine” at the apple garden of Kasuga Taisha Shrine. We will be holding a “Kasuga Taisha Shrine Dedication Piano Recital”. Please enjoy the performance that resonates with the temple grounds, which are steeped in eternal history, and the tranquil space of Kasuga’s primeval forest itself.
Over the past year, Mine Kawakami has been depicting the scenery of her hometown of Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, and in Santiago de Compostela, where she currently resides, her original song “Ave Maris Stella” has been performed as a mass, one of the three holiest places in Christianity. It is now played in the Santiago Cathedral. His recording activities include playing the pipe organ at the Santiago Cathedral and performing with the 1,000-year-old indigenous ocarina in the great outdoors of the Andes Mountains. In researching his music, he has worked tirelessly to refine his music, including interactions with the Arctic Circle of Finland in Scandinavia and the indigenous peoples of Colombia in South America.
We will deliver to everyone the wonderful blessings we receive from the earth in each and every sound.
[From Mine Kawakami]
Thanks to your support, this year marks the 6th time we have performed at Kasuga Taisha Shrine.
While the situation in Japan and the world is fundamentally changing, when I create music with the piano, an instrument that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years, I want to keep my ears sharp for the unwavering sound that is unfettered by the times. Masu. I feel that the sounds are wind, water, the rustling of trees, and the sounds of insects and animals.
Normally, classical music is tuned around the note “A,” but for me, I can’t help but feel that the tuning axis lies within the echoes of nature. The place where all these sounds have remained unchanged for over 1250 years is the apple garden of Kasuga Taisha Shrine. Once a year, the world’s best piano (SHIGERU KAWAI) is brought to this place. SK-EX) and the sound that resonates with Kasuga Taisha Shrine and the primeval forest is a special concert that brings me back to my origins and musical hometown.
The songs were carefully selected from over 300 songs that he had composed to date, and were in harmony with the nature of the Kasugayama virgin forest, where logging has been prohibited for over 1,000 years. This is a program where you can enjoy being one with the great nature of Kasuga Taisha Shrine. Although we only have a limited number of seats available so that you can enjoy the sound of the insects’ wings and the small rustling of the flowers, we would be very happy if you could come to Kasuga Taisha Shrine to enjoy a special time on an autumn evening.
[Program]
Kasuga Taisha 2024 (Premier), Michi (NHK “Cat’s Tail Frog’s Hand”, Ave Maris Stella, Santiago de
Compostela (Official Mass of Santiago Cathedral), To Dad, Seasons of Yamato (NHK “Seasons of Yamato”), etc.
[Mine Kawakami Piano Recital Dedicated to Kasuga Taisha Shrine] Saturday, October 26, 2024
16:30 ~ Reception (House of Gratitude and Coexistence)
18:00～Start (Apple Garden)
[Seating] Kasuga Taisha Head Office Heiden/Naokaiden *All seats reserved [Sponsor] Mine Kawakami Music Office
[Cooperation] Kasuga Taisha https://www.kasugataisha.or.jp/
[Admission fee] 15,000 yen
[Ticket sales] Ticket Pia
P code: 269931
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【profile】
Mine Kawakami (pianist/composer)
Born in Nagakute City, Aichi Prefecture. Graduated from the Piano Department at the Munich University of Music in Germany and the Royal Academy of Music in Madrid, Spain. While attending school, he was moved by the performance of Cuban Latin jazz pianist Chucho Valdez, and moved to Cuba. While teaching at a music school, he acquired a free musical style that goes beyond classical music.
After that, he performed in various parts of Central and South America and Asia, and returned to Japan in 2000.
Currently based in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and Kyoto, he is active in performing, composing, and producing music.
2004 and 2018: Performed on piano with Chucho Valdez at the National Theater of Havana, Cuba and the Royal Theater of Madrid.
2005: As the official pianist and composer for the Aichi Expo, he created the music for the mascot characters “Morizo and Kikkoro.” 2013-2014: Served as music director and soloist for the “Opening and Closing Concert Commemorating 400 Years of Exchange between Japan and Spain” held at the Teatro Royale in Madrid, Spain. His Royal Highness Felipe VI (then Crown Prince of Asturias) and Queen Letizia (then Crown Princess) were in attendance. A piano recital was held at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a world heritage site in Spain (His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Naruhito (at the time) was in attendance). Currently, at the Cathedral of Santiago in Spain, which is one of the bases, Minet Kawakami’s “Ave Maris Stella” is constantly played as a mass on the pipe organ.
He has held piano recitals every year at Japanese World Heritage Sites, including Kiyomizu Temple (Kyoto) since 2005 and Kasuga Taisha Shrine (Nara) since 2015. NHK’s programs include “Cat’s Tail, Frog’s Paw,” “Yamato Nunnery Shojin Diary,” “Yamato’s 24 Seasons,” and “Rice Falls in the Kamuy Forest,” which introduces the eating habits of the Ainu people. Providing music for “Omusubi Nippon”, which introduces rice balls from all over the country.
In September 2020, NHK will air the documentary program “The Shape of Sound: Nara: A Piano that Depicts the Seasons,” which depicts “Musician Mine Kawakami” and includes a dedication performance at Kasuga Taisha Shrine.
Since October 2023, he has been providing songs and appearing on NHK’s “Happy Mood Spanish”.
From April 2024, he is working on the music production for the new play “Full Moon Rimse,” which is being performed regularly at Akan Ainu Theater Ikor in Akan-cho, Kushiro City, Hokkaido.