Japanese and Japanese American Music: Piano and Violin Concert

Enjoy a concert that includes piano and violin music that relates to Japan and celebrates Japanese and Japanese American composers and musicians.  The music performed will vary from the traditional to the modern, and the program will include both solos and ensembles.   

Yuka Nakayama-Lewicki, playing piano, and Yuko Nakamura, playing violin, will perform Haru no Umi (The Sea in Spring) composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi;  Hamabe no Uta (Song of the Seashore), a popular Japanese folk song composed by Tamezou Narita; and much more. 

The children guest performers, Joji Nakayama Lewicki and Hana Nakamura, playing violin and both trained under the Suzuki Method, will perform Concerto for Two Violins composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.  

Learn more about the Suzuki Method and its creator, Shinichi Suzuki, who was born in Japan, studied western music in Germany in the 1920s, and began teaching young children in Japan in the 1930s.  The Suzuki Method is based on the principle that all children possess ability and that this ability can be developed and enhanced through a nurturing environment.