[Nonsequitur] this Friday night: KAZUE SAWAI

[Steve Peters]

Hi Folks,

This is not a Nonsequitur concert but one that we highly recommend.

The great Kazue Sawai is a virtuoso and champion of new music for the 
Japanese koto. Full details below.

She is playing Friday Sept. 29 at 8 PM
PONCHO Hall, Cornish College of the Arts
710 E. Roy St., Seattle (just off Broadway on Capitol Hill)
206-325-6500
Tickets: $15, $7.50 for student/senior/Cornish alumni
www.ticketwindowonline.com

  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, Tada 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.

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