TAKUJI KAWAI WEB - Concert Archives 2010-2012

Concert Archives 2010-2012

■Saturday, 30th January 2010
Takuji Kawai (piano) + Haruhiko Okabe (sax, hichiriki) DUO
with Manami Takita (fue) + Rei Shimizu (electric bass) + Maresuke Okamoto (contrabass) TRIO

starts 20:00
at Barrel House, Ikebukuro, Tokyo

■Sunday, 21st February 2010
Reisiu Sakai (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano, organ)

starts 18:00
at Cosmic Soul, Kita-senju, Tokyo

■Thursday, 25th February 2010
Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar) + Toshihiro Koike (trombone) + Takuji Kawai (keyboard)

starts 20:00
at Bar Isshee, Shibuya, Tokyo

■Wednesday, 17th March 2010
Takuji Kawai Piano Solo Concert "Morton Feldman's Piano Works"

Program (all composed by Morton Feldman) :
part1: Piano Piece 1952, Three Pieces for Piano (1954), Piano Piece 1955,
Piano Piece 1956A, Piano Piece 1956B, Vertical Thoughts 4 (1963),
Piano Piece 1964
part2: For Bunita Marcus (1985)

opens 19:00 starts 19:30
at Ano Ano, Otsuka, Tokyo
(1F, 1-49-2, Minami-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 03-6273-7024)
http://www.music-anoano.com
5 min walk from JR Otsuka sta., 8 min walk from Subway Marunouchi line Shin-Otsuka sta.

admission fee: 2500yen(reservation)/2800yen(door)

Feldman is one of the leading composers of USA's experimental music in the second half of 20th century.
In the first part of this concert, KAWAI plays Feldman's several early compositions,
and in the second part 80-minute-long quiet and amazing music "For Bunita Marcus" (1985).

■Saturday, 27th March 2010
Reisiu Sakai (vocal) + Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

opens 19:00 starts 20:00
at Bar Lialeh, Futako-tamagawa, Tokyo
http://lialeh.net/index.html

We play many songs including Brazilian ones and several ones of Kawai's.

■Thursday, 15th April 2010
Collective Improvisation
by
Ken’ichi MATSUMOTO (sax, shakuhachi), Frédéric MARTY (contrabass),
Ryusaku IKEZAWA (drums), Miduki MISUMI (voice), Hiroshi HIGO (bass),
Tomofumi ARAI (wa-daiko), Marcos FERNANDES (percussion), Takero SEKIJIMA (tuba),
Takuji KAWAI (piano), Yasuhiro USUI (guitar), Morry BURNS (synth)

starts 14:30 (NB!)
at Pit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo

■Friday, 23rd April 2010
Takuji KAWAI (piano) plays FELDMAN, SCELSI, TAKAHASHI
14th concert of Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen Tokyo

Program:
Morton Feldman "Palais de Mari" (1986)
Giacinto Scelsi "Suite No.9 ’Ttai’"(1953)
Yuji Takahashi "Maeander"(1973/1976)

starts 19:30
at Shibuya Studio, Shibuya, Tokyo
reservation needed

■Tuesday, 4th May 2010
Performance with Contact Improvisation Dance
in Tokyo Contact Impro Festival 2010

Dance: Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, Hiroko Takahashi and others
Sound: Takuji Kawai, Manhan(Hikari Sohma+Miura Ichi-go)

starts 15:00
at Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo
organized by SPIRAL

■Tuesday, 18th May 2010
Junji Mori Quartet

Junji Mori (sax), Hiroshi Shimizu (guitar), Takuji Kawai (piano), Hiroyuki Eizuka (contrabass)

starts 20:00
at Knuttel House, Iriya, Tokyo

free jazz/free improvisation

■Sunday, 30th May 2010
Jyoji Sawada (contrabass) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

Compositions by Sawada and Kawai and improvisation

■Sunday, 4th July 2010
Mark Sadgrove + Anthony Guerra + Madoka Kohno + Takuji Kawai + Ian-John Hutchinson + Daisuke Ogino＋Takuji Naka

starts 18:00
at Soraya, Ohfuna, Kanagawa

■Thursday, 22nd July 2010
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert

Program:
Yori-Aki Matsudaira "Blending"
Hirokazu Hiraishi "Spiral Path of Piano II"
Mamoru Fujieda "Begin at the beginning, end at the end, begin at the end, end at the beginning"
Haruyuki Suzuki "Concentric Circle"
Tom Johnson "An Hour for Piano"

starts 19:30
at Ano ano, Ohtsuka, Tokyo
2500yen(reservation)/2800yen(door)

■Wednesday, 4th August 2010
Hugues Vincent(cello) + Takuji Kawai(piano) + Maki Hachiya(voice/vocal)

starts 20:00
at Saint-Jacques, Nishi-Ogikubo, Tokyo

■Thursday, 12th August 2010
Kenzo Kusuda(dance) + Kazushi Matsumoto(bass trombone) + Ken'ichi Matsumoto(sax) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:00
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Thursday, 26th August 2010
IGE_TIMER(Klaus Janek(contrabass)+Simon Berz(electronics)) + Hideo Ikegami(contrabass) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 20:00
at Velvet Sun, Ogikubo, Tokyo

■Saturday, 4th & Sunday, 5th September 2010
joins a dance-opera "Mulan" (Chinese-Japanese production)

■Saturday, 11th September 2010
＜in a body place＞
Hugues Vincent(cello) + Chia Yin Ling(dance)
+ Mitsuaki Matsumoto(electronics/prepared sitar) + JOU(dance)
+ Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Koendori Classics, Shibuya, Tokyo

■Thursday, 16th September 2010
Zn'shn (Franck Smith+Elvire Bastendorff)(electronics)
+ Haruyuki Suzuki(electronics) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Sunday, 3rd October 2010
Takuji Kawai Toy Piano Solo Live
in World Toy Music Film Concert

starts 18:00
at Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo

■Saturday, 9th & Sunday, 10th October 2010
joins a dance-opera "Mulan" (Chinese-Japanese production) in Shanghai, China

■Saturday, 23rd October 2010
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert

Program:
Morton Feldman "Palais de Mari" (1986)
Giacinto Scelsi "Suite No.9 'Ttai'"(1953)
Yuji Takahashi "Maeander"(1973)
Improvisation

starts 18:30
at Shuyukan(tel 0748-32-2054), Ohmi-Hachiman, Shiga

2500yen(reservation)/3000yen(door)

■Sunday, 24th October 2010
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert

Program:
Morton Feldman "Palais de Mari" (1986)
Giacinto Scelsi "Suite No.9 'Ttai'"(1953)
Yuji Takahashi "PIANO 3 (for Thomas Schultz)"(2001)
Improvisation

starts 19:30
at Guggenheim House(tel 078-220-3924), Kobe, Hyogo

2500yen(reservation)/3000yen(door)

■Monday, 8th November 2010
Gianni Gebbia(sax) + Daisuke Takaoka(tuba) + Takuji Kawai(piano) + Kosho Nanami(butoh dance)

starts 19:30
at Buddy, Ekoda, Tokyo

■Saturday, 13th November 2010
Gianni Gebbia(sax) + Marcos Fernandes(percussion) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Airegin, Yokohama

■Wednesday, 23rd November 2010
Jerome Fouquet(trumpet)＋Ken-ichi Matsumoto(sax)＋mori-shige(cello)＋Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 20:00
at Knuttel House, Iriya, Tokyo

■Thursday, 9th December 2010
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert "Plays Mamoru Fujieda & Yuji Takahashi"

Program:
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn (1988)
Yuji Takahashi: Finger Light (1995)
Mamoru Fujieda: The Olive Branch Speaks (2008-2010)
Mamoru Fujieda: Requiem Fragmentum (1988)

starts 19:15
at Mon-naka Tenjo Hall, Tokyo

2800yen(reservation)/3000yen(door)

■Sunday, 16th January 2011
Toshimaru Nakamura(no-input mixing board)＋Pearl Alexander(double bass)＋Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Z.imagine, Gaien-mae, Tokyo

■Saturday, 22nd January 2011
Reiko Imanishi(koto)+Daisuke Takaoka(tuba)+mori-shige(cello)+Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 20:00
at Barrel House, Ikebukuro, Tokyo

■Thursday, 10th February 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert #1
"Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus"
in New Music Hakozaki 2011 Festival

Program:
Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus(1985)

starts 19:00
at Miya-no-mori Gallery Momo-An, Fukuoka

2000yen(students 1000yen)

■Friday(National Holiday), 11th February 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert #2
"Plays Mamoru Fujieda & Yuji Takahashi"
in New Music Hakozaki 2011 Festival

Program:
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn (1988)
Yuji Takahashi: Finger Light (1995)
Mamoru Fujieda: The Olive Branch Speaks (2008-2010)
Mamoru Fujieda: Requiem Fragmentum (1988)

starts 15:00
at Hakozaki Aquarium Cafe, Fukuoka

2000yen(students 1000yen)

■Saturday, 12th February 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo Concert

Program:
Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (1985)
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece1964
Mamoru Fujieda: Requiem Fragmentum (1988)excerpts
Yuji Takahashi: Finger Light (1995) excerpts

starts 18:30
at Neko-machi Nishimura, Amagasaki, Hyogo

2500yen(1drink included)

■Saturday, 19th March 2011
TRIO & 3 DUETS
Sorry, this gig is cancelled.

Tetuzi Akiyama(guitar), Yumiko Tanaka(bass shamisen), Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 15:00
at Sakai-ki Cafe, Yotsuya, Tokyo

improvisations

■Sunday, 17th April 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo

Program:
Mamoru Fujieda: Requiem Fragmentum (1988)
Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (1985)

starts 18:00
at Candy, Inage, Chiba

3000yen(1drink included)(reservation)

■Thursday(National Holiday), 5th May 2011
Takuji Kawai (piano), Yuki Saga (vocal), Marcos Fernandes (percussion), Eiichi Hayashi (sax)
in Yokohama Int'l Improvisation Music Festival - Spring 2011

at Airegin, Yokohama

■Thursday, 12th May 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo at Casa Classica

Program (subject to change):
T.Kawai "Sanctuary""My Dearness""Pas de deux"
"Milonga de tristeza""Elegie""Ruby""Celestial"
H.Hiraishi "Vision"
M.Fujieda "Olive Branch Speaks IV"
F.Hayasaka "Piano Music for Chamber #3, #9"
F.Liszt "Angelus!"
R.Schumann "Fantasie op.17 Mov.III""Traumerei"
F.Chopin "Lento con gran espressione""Prelude op.28-4"
D.Shostakovich "Piano Sonata No.2 Mov.II""Prelude and Fuga #22, #1"

starts 19:00
at Casa Classica, Akasaka, Tokyo

■Saturday, 4th June 2011
Tamie Yamana Dance Fragrance 2011
(Kawai plays Chopin live on stage in Yamana's solo dance piece "La Nostalgie")

starts 14:00 & 18:00
at New National Theatre (The Pit), Hatsudai, Tokyo

■Wednesday, 20th July 2011
Dance×Dance×Piano
Gerry Morta (dance) + Sadayuki Hayashi (dance) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

1-hour improvised performance 16:00-17:00
at Seed Ship, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo
1000yen(1 drink included)

■Thursday, 22nd September 2011
Takuji KAWAI Piano Recital

Program :
Hirokazu Hiraishi "Chronoscape"(2006)
Yori-Aki Matsudaira "Resonance"(1982)
Yuji Takahashi "PIANO"(2000)
Yutaka Kimura "Aeon"(2005)
shibatetsu "Tana"(Shelf)(2010)
Alessio Silvestrin "Ritrovare tricordale"(2002)
Haruyuki Suzuki "Punctuation VIII"(2011 commissioned new work /premier）
Masamichi Kinoshita "Crypte I & II"(2011 commissioned new work /premier）

starts 19:15
at Mon-naka Tenjo Hall, Tokyo

3000yen(reservation)/3300yen(door)

■Thursday, 29th September 2011
Kohshou Nanami(butoh dance) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

starts 20:00
at Seed Ship, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo

■Tuesday, 4th October 2011
Koichi Tamano and Invisible Troupe : Butoh Dance Performance

starts 19:30
at Ueno Storehouse, Tokyo

■Wednesday, 12th October 2011
Gianni Gebbia(sax) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Buddy, Ekoda, Tokyo

■Saturday, 15th October 2011
Kohshou Nanami(butoh dance) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

in Street Art-Plex Kumamoto Festival

■Monday, 17th October 2011
Kohshou Nanami(butoh dance) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

at Hakozaki Aquarium Cafe, Fukuoka

■Thursday, 27th October 2011
Hugues Vincent (cello) + Frantz Loriot (viola) + Takuji Kawai (piano)

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Saturday, 5th November 2011
Sawori Namekawa(vocal) + Takuji Kawai(piano)
Songs by Caetano Veloso (including Japanese translation versions) and Takuji Kawai

starts 20:00
at Apple Jump, Ikebukuro, Tokyo

■Monday, 7th November 2011
Katsura Yamauchi(sax) + Takuji Kawai(piano)

starts 19:30
at Kissa Sakaiki, Tokyo

■Thursday, 1st December 2011
Takuji Kawai : Toy Piano Solo
in UnCaged Toy Piano Festival

starts 20:00
at The Gershwin Hotel (7 East 27th Street, New York, NY 10016)

program (subject to change):
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants Selections
Haruyuki Suzuki: Suite Pure and Simple (excerpts)
Haruyuki Suzuki: finale from Un couple parfait
Hirokazu Hiraishi: Spiral Path No.1
Kohei Kondo: Priest's Recreation
Yasuko Yui: pocp
Takuji Kawai: To You / Lullaby / River Song / Prayer / Dragonfly

■Saturday, 3rd December 2011
Toy Bonanza
in UnCaged Toy Piano Festival

starts 20:00
at DiMenna Center, Cary Hall (450 37th Street, New York, NY)

program :
Takuji Kawai: Go Spazieren
Hirokazu Hiraishi: A Rainbow in the Mirror
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn deconstructed

■Sunday, 4th December 2011
Takuji Kawai Solo

at Lily Pad (1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02139-1340)

■Tuesday, 20th December 2011
Yori-Aki Matsudaira 80th Anniversary Concert

starts 19:00
at Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Tokyo

program (all composed by Yori-Aki Matsudaira):
Simulation (Shin'ya Hashimoto=tuba)
Celebration (Takuji Kawai=piano)
It's gonna be a hardcore! (Takashi Matsudaira=baritone, Akiko Fujita=piano)
Replacement (Keizo Mizoiri=contrabass)
Binary Stars (Kazue Nakamura&Takuji Kawai=piano 4hands)
Morphogenesis II, III (Kazue Nakamura=piano)
List for Satoko Inoue (Satoko Inoue=piano)
Rotation I (Teion duo=baritone&tuba)
Morning Music (Sumihisa Arima=electronics)

■Wednesday, 28th December 2011
Tetuzi Akiyama(guitar) + Takuji Kawai(piano)
CD"Transition" Release Live

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Wednesday, 11th January 2012
Takuji Kawai(piano, toy piano) solo
guest players: Kazue Nakamura, Sawori Namekawa, Tetuzi Akiyama

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Thursday, 16th February 2012
Takuji Kawai(toy piano) solo

program :
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants
Hirokazu Hiraishi: A Rainbow in the Mirror
Takuji Kawai: Okura / Go Spazieren / PRAYER
John Cage: Suite for toy piano
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn deconstructed
etc

starts 19:00
at Reizensou, Fukuoka

■Thursday, 23th February 2012
Takuji Kawai(piano) solo

program :
Works by Erik Satie, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Mamoru Fujieda,
Hirokazu Hiraishi, Takuji Kawai and more

starts 19:00
at Momo-an, Fukuoka

■Friday, 2nd March 2012
Takuji Kawai: Contemporary Toy Piano Music

program :
Sunao Isaji: Komono-no-Kuni Stories (2012 premier)*
Haruyuki Suzuki: Suite Pure and Simple (2003)**
Hirokazu Hiraishi: At the Winding Path (1993/2011)(arrangement for toy piano premier)
Hirokazu Hiraishi: A Rainbow in the Mirror (1992/2011)
Takuji Kawai: Okura (2012)
Kohei Kondo: Priest's Recreation (2009)
Yasuko Yui: pocp (2008)(Japan premier)
Haruna Miyake: My D (1977/2011)
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn deconstructed (2001)
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants (2009)

guest players: Sunao Isaji (perc)*, Haruyuki Suzuki (perc)**

starts 19:30
at Nana-hari, Hacchobori, Tokyo

■Sunday, 4th March 2012
Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Torine (theremin)

starts 15:00
at Sakai-ki Cafe, Yotsuya, Tokyo

Brazilian songs (partly in Japanese) and songs by Kawai and Tori-ne

■Saturday, 10th March 2012
Takuji Kawai(piano) solo

program :
John Cage: Music for Piano 2
Erik Satie: Pieces froides
Hirokazu Hiraishi: At the Winding Path
Haruyuki Suzuki: Punctuation VIII
Masamichi Kinoshita: crypte II
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece 1956A
Yuji Takahashi: Planet on the Table
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants
Yutaka Kimura: Osiris
Takuji Kawai: Elegie

starts 15:30
at Hakozaki Aquarium Cafe, Fukuoka

■Friday, 16th March 2012
Katsura Yamauchi (sax) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Kazue Miyahara (dance)

starts 20:00
at Momo-an, Fukuoka

improvisations

■Saturday, 17th March 2012
Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Torine (theremin)

starts 15:30
at Banzo, Itoshima, Fukuoka

■Sunday, 18th March 2012
Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Torine (theremin)

starts 19:30
at Riverside, Nakasu, Fukuoka

■Monday, 19th March 2012
Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Torine (theremin)

starts 19:00
at Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Memorial Hall, Nagasaki

with Kouji Shimakawa, Seiko, Shiho

■Tuesday (National Holiday), 20th March 2012
Sawori Namekawa (vocal) + Takuji Kawai (piano) + Torine (theremin)

starts 15:00
at Ryuto-sen/Fusui-an, Nagasaki

with Kouji Shimakawa, Shingo-man

■Tuesday, 27th March 2012
Kazue Nakamura + Takuji Kawai: Contemporary 4-hand Piano Music

program:
Hiroyuki Yamamoto: Marcia alla Turca (2011)
Toshiya Watanabe: Openwork (2012 commissioned new work premier)
Yori-Aki Matsudaira: Binary Stars (1990)
Yori-Aki Matsudaira: Exercise (2009)
Masamichi Kinoshita: crypte II (2011)
Masamichi Kinoshita: Redevenir enfin le Rien dans la persistance du Tout II (2011)

starts 19:30
at Shibuya Studio, Shibuya, Tokyo

■Thursday, 29th March 2012
Takuji KAWAI Piano Solo at Casa Classica vol.2

Program :
Cage"In a landscape"/Satie"Danses de travers"/
Fujieda"Patterns of Plants: 12th Collection"/Kimura"Osiris"/
Takahashi"Planet on the Table"/Kawai"Torso"/and more

starts 19:00
at Casa Classica, Akasaka, Tokyo

■Saturday, 31st March 2012
Mini live performance in "Ito-Matsuri"

plays toy piano and keyboard-harmonica
and also collaborates with Fujiimon (poetry reading)

starts around 14:30
at Ito-aguri

■Thursday, 12th April 2012
Takuji Kawai Piano Solo Live:
Satie - Fujieda - Cage - Hesse - Takata - Veloso - Kawai

program :
John Cage: Music for Piano #4-19
Erik Satie: Nocturnes #1-5
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants 5th Collection
Saburo Takata: Preludes
Caetano Veloso: Un Homem Velho
Herman Hesse: Poetry (recitation)
Takuji Kawai: After Hesse #1-4
etc

starts 19:30
at Hakozaki Aquarium Cafe, Fukuoka

2000yen(students 1000yen)

■Wednesday, 18th April 2012
Takuji Kawai Toy Piano Solo at Reizensou vol.2

program :
David Lang: Miracle Ear
Kohei Kondo: A Priest's Recreation
Yasuko Yui: pocp
Sunao Isaji: Komono-no-Kuni Stories IV, V
Takuji Kawai: dragonfly / boat song / Lullaby
John Cage: Dream
etc

starts 19:30
at Reizensou, Fukuoka

1800yen

■Sunday, 22nd April 2012
Mini live performance in "Earth Day Itoshima"

at Fukae beach, Itoshima

■Saturday, 28th April 2012
Takuji Kawai Toy Piano Solo Concert

program :
Sunao Isaji: Komono-no-kuni Stories IV, V
Hirokazu Hiraishi: A Rainbow in the Mirror
John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn deconstructed
David Lang: Miracle Ear
Kohei Kondo: A Priest's Recreation
Yasuko Yui: pocp
Takuji Kawai: Okura, Prayer, boat song
etc

starts 18:30
at Neko-machi Nishimura, Amagasaki, Hyogo

2500yen(1drink included)

■Monday(National Holiday), 30th April 2012
Takuji Kawai Toy Piano Solo Concert

program :
Sunao Isaji: Komono-no-Kuni Stories IV, V
Hirokazu Hiraishi: A Rainbow in the Mirror
John Cage: Suite for Toy Piano
Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants
Yuji Takahashi: The Auroras of Autumn deconstructed
David Lang: Miracle Ear
Kohei Kondo: A Priest's Recreation
Yasuko Yui: pocp
Takuji Kawai: Okura / Prayer / boat song
etc

starts 18:30
at Shuyukan, Ohmi-Hachiman, Shiga

2500yen(reservation)/3000yen(door)

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