Sohgakusha - contemporary KOTO music

about Sohgakusha

Sohgakusha is a school of contemporary KOTO music. Yokohama school (1987~）Sapporo school (1995~) and Kita-Hiroshima school (2007~). ​

Biography Koh-ichiro TANAKA

Koh-ichiro started performing around Tokyo in 1985. Whilst his main repertory is Jazz and contemporary music, he has also performed with the newly invented twenty-string koto. In addition to recitals at various locations, he has expanded the salon concert series at Yokohama Okurayama Memorial Hall and Hoh-hei Hall in Sapporo. He was invited to the opening reception of the “Japan Year in France” and performed in front of leaders of Japan and France in 1997. Koh-ichiro also gave recitals in France, including at the Information and Culture Center of the Embassy of Japan in Paris. He played “Symphonic Eglog for orchestra and 20-string koto”, composed by Akira Ifukube with the Hokkaido Symphony Orchestra in 2004. Koh-ichiro completed the NHK Japanese music technician training institute in 1986.