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taikoarts
Aloha
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 Posted - 07/04/2012 : 10:25:48 PM
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(Honolulu, HI)
Taiko Center of the Pacific's Summer Taiko Intensives include a special Intensive Workshop with Grammy winner Slack Key Guitarist Jeff Peterson!
The workshop meets Monday-Friday 3 pm - 4:45 pm from August 13 thru 17.
This course will introduce students to tunings, chord fingerings, accompaniment patterns, and solo arrangements of popular Hawaiian songs. Some basic knowledge of the guitar is recommended but not required to take the class.
In addition to the Slack Key Guitar Intensive, there will be two TAIKO Intensive Workshops - Solid Shime-daiko Drumming with Kenny Endo; and Chichibu Yatai Bayashi with Riley Lee. The schedule is:
3:00-4:45 pm Slack Key Guitar
5:30-7:15 pm Chichibu Yatai Bayashi
7:30-9:15 pm Solid Shime-daiko Drumming
Each course fee is $150; $135 for youth to age 17.
Low-cost temporary housing may be available for Out-of-Town participants. If interested, please mention so at the time of registration.
For registration, contact: 808-737-7236 or email: taikoarts @ gmail.com
The week-long intensive courses will conclude with a concert featuring the three master instructors at 4 pm, Sunday, August 19, 2012 at the University of Hawaii’s Orvis Auditorium. Tickets are:
$15 (general), $12 (youth to age 17).
ARTIST PROFILE
ARTIST INSTRUCTOR PROFILES
JEFF PETERSON
Recognized as one of Hawaii’s most versatile musicians, Jeff Peterson is at the heart of the Hawaiian music scene today. His passion for the guitar has allowed him to shine as a solo artist and has given him the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of artists from Hawaii, across the US, and abroad. His focus on Slack Key guitar, classical, and jazz music has allowed him to develop a unique and transcendent voice on the guitar while being deeply rooted in the traditions of his Hawaiian heritage. He has contributed to two Grammy Award-winning recordings and has been honored with three Na Hōkū Hanohano Awards in Hawaii.
His latest solo CD Maui on My Mind was recognized as the Slack Key Album of the Year in 2010. His latest release features his songwriting, performing, and producing on Amy Hanaiali`i and Slack Key Masters of Hawaii. The groundbreaking recording features a collaboration between Jeff, Amy Hanaiali`i, Cyril Pahinui, Dennis Kamakahi, Sonny Lim, and Chino Montero.
Five of his songs including Hawaiian Skies were featured in the film The Descendants starring George Clooney.
RILEY LEE
Riley Lee began playing shakuhachi (bamboo flute) in Japan in 1971, studying with Chikuho Sakai until 1980, and has been a student of Katsuya Yokoyama since 1984. He was given the rank of Dai Shihan (grand master) in 1980. Riley has a BA and MA in music from the University of Hawaii and received his PhD degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Sydney. He has published scholarly articles and book reviews in leading national and international musicology journals. He has been instrumental in creating a professional presence of traditional Japanese music in Australia and has made over fifty commercially released recordings since 1980.
Riley was the first non-Japanese to play taiko professionally, touring internationally with Ondekoza (now called Kodo). In 1995, he co-founded with Ian Cleworth, Australia's dynamic Japanese festival drum group, TaikOz which has since become one of Australia's premier performance groups, acclaimed both at home and in Japan.
KENNY ENDO
Kenny Endo is a recognized leader in the American taiko community both for his deep connection to traditions in Japan as well as his drive to use tradition as a foundation for innovation. From an early age, he studied drumming, particularly jazz and rock. He first experienced taiko in the early 70s, and joined Kinnara Taiko, and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo before embarking on a decade long odyssey to study with the masters in Japan. He became the first non-Japanese national to receive a natori (stage name and master’s license) in hogaku hayashi. classical Japanese drumming. He was a professional member of the famed O Edo Sukeroku Taiko, has an M.A. in ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii, and formed the Taiko Center of the Pacific in 1994 with his wife, Chizuko. Endo has traversed the world over performing and sharing his art. He remains a vital link between American and Japanese taiko, and he has influenced many American taiko players to study in Japan.
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Slack Key Intensive Aug 13-17 with Jeff Peterson
