Basic Information

Participant(s)：Students from Graduate school of Music
Location：Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russian Federation
Period：December20- December 25,2014

Achievements

A master’s student and a doctoral student in Traditional Japanese Music visited Moscow with the aim of conducting a field research for a future concert in Moscow.

We paid a visit to Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where we were invited to talk about performance by students of the Tokyo University of the Arts and the performance contents for “Nihon no Kokoro”in the next year, the concert which is planned, implemented and represented by Dr. Margarita Karatygina, the director of World Music Cultures Center.

We felt it necessary to review our concert plan to meet the request of Dr. Margarita Karatygina and other instructors and students of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory that they wanted to listen to real classical music pieces. We will continue to hold discussions among the players-to-be and work to make a better contribution to the concert by performing Japanese traditional music pieces.

We had initially planned to take part in this year’s “Nihon no Kokoro” as audience, where Maya Yamao and Takamasa Fugima were to perform, but thanks to the two performers and Dr. Karatygina, we were invited to play with them. We played in the latter part of the concert” Shinmusume Doujouji” and ”Echigojishi no Uta” from the back of a folding screen, for which we were very grateful. We also experienced a general probe before the opening of the concert, and we could check the music hall. During the former half of the concert, we were listening in a seat to feel the ambience and the response of the audience.

This visit was a valuable opportunity both for music students like us who wish to make ourselves a performer and for the world of Japanese music which has less opportunities to perform out of Japan. It allowed us to understand that Japanese music goes beyond borders, enabling us to interact with people of other countries, which we felt is quite beneficial to the life of musician.

Furthermore, we found that such interactions with people overseas expand our views towards music and life. By visiting the Conservatory and holding face-to-face discussions in a local atmosphere, we renewed the motivation to further develop our plan for the next year and get ourselves ready for it.

Utilizing all these experiences, and based on goals and objectives to be identified for the next concert, we need to continue to design future concert projects that will lead to make our dreams come true and consider further developing our career.