Artist CV

Selected projects & performances

2026 — Picca e Picca
Piano / voice duo with vocalist Noriko Yamada. First Netherlands concert: 9 May 2026, Boerderij Driebergen, Rotterdam. Japanese songs, original arrangements and improvisation. Festival appearance: North Sea Round Town 2026 — Jazz op de Meent, ThePhoneLab Rotterdam, 9 July 2026.

2025 — East from the West (The concept of Love) / DUO
Sound composition and live piano with Liza Lin and Diana Harteveld. Porcelain and ceramic sounds, installation, moving image and improvisation. De Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague; DUO’s exhibition, 2 July–24 August 2025; film and live-piano programme, 8 August 2025.

2025 — Poetry / Butoh / Improvisation
Improvised piano and melodica with Cecilia Meinders (poetry) and Yurie Umamoto (dance). Ontmoetingscentrum De Schakel, Haarlem.

2019–2022 — The Other Side
Piano / performer in an evolving intermedia work directed by Kei Fushiki, with spatial composition by Masafumi Igaki. Presented in Aichi, Tokyo and Kyoto, including Aichi Triennale 2019, Kyoto Art Center’s KAC Selection and Sound Performance Platform 2022.

2019 — Ogen/blik Vol.3
Composition / piano in a new work for piano and moving image with filmmaker Tatsuya Maruyama. 30 June 2019, Ryogoku Monten Hall, Tokyo.

2019 — どこから飲んでも甘い水を体の中に入れる
Composer / piano; Hiromi Tanaka, trombone. Fully notated chamber work. Inexplicable Owl vol.6, 21 November 2019, Menicon ANNEX HITOMI Hall, Nagoya.

2017 / 2019 — 触らず / Sawarazu
Composer / piano with Ayami Hara (soprano and dance). A work combining operatic voice, contemporary dance and piano.

From 2007 — Geonori
Keyboard / improviser in a free improvisation group. Performances included art events and Performing Arts Garden 2011 at Aichi Arts Center.

Ongoing collaborations

Chorus SORA / コーラス空
Conductor and pianist for a Japanese community choir in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Rehearsal and performance with Japanese, Dutch and international repertoire.

Picca e Picca
Piano and voice duo with Noriko Yamada, developing Japanese songs through original arrangements and improvisation.

Professional experience

FY2011–FY2014 — Creative Staff (Composition)
Nagakute Cultural Center, Aichi, Japan. Composition, arranging, direction, participatory workshops, school outreach and interdisciplinary public projects.

FY2011–FY2015; FY2017–FY2018 — Part-time Lecturer
Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan. Composition, music theory and solfège.

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