Nosaka Keiko
野坂 惠子
5/6/1938 - 8/27/2019
Koto
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Keiko Nosaka graduated from the Department of Japanese Music at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and attended the post-graduate course at the same institution. In 1965, she held her first solo recital, and in the same year she joined Pro Musica Nipponia, continuing as an active member for 17 years. She was awarded the Arts Festival Encouragement Award in 1969 for her second recital, where she introduced the 20-string koto, a new Instrument she herself had developed. An invitation to perform at the 1975 Menuhin Festival in Switzerland led to a series of recitals in Europe and the United States. The program included selections from the traditional repertoire as well as new works by Minoru Miki. Nosaka returned to Europe in 1981 for a series of seven recitals in Spain, Holland, Belgium, and East Germany. From 1986-89, she gave 150 concerts throughout Japan in association with the theater group Jian-Jian. At her thirteenth recital in 1991, she played her newly developed 25-string koto for the first time. Nosaka received the Matsuo Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts the following year. In 1994, she began studying with the composer Akira Ifukube, leading to increased collaboration between the two artists. Her compositions included Tsugaru (1986), Shiki no Kyoku ("Songs of the Four Seasons," 1991), and Kaze no Oto ("Sounds of the Wind," 1995). In 2000, her recital presentation of Akira Ifukube's Pipa Xing for 25-string koto earned her the Music Pen Club Award. A lecture series-Keiko Nosaka Lectures: Listening to the Masters-began in 1998 and is held five times each year. Nosaka also received the Minister of Education Award for the Arts for 2001. She is a member of the board of the Ikuta-school Association, and heads the group Matsu no Mi Kai.
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| Also Known As 操壽 (Sōju II) |
Students
Yoshimura Nanae
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Albums
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Koto - Keiko Nosaka |
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Minoru Miki Selected Works III |
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Pipa Xing - Works of Akira Ifukube |
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