2017 |
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Sept-Oct
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Tokyo Bunka Kaikan presents the Japan premiere of chamber opera Four Nights of Dream in Tokyo.
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Sept |
Japan Society presents a new production of chamber opera Four Nights of Dream in New York, NY, USA.
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Moto Osada's interview on La Scena Musicale.
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Osada on the new production of Four Nights of Dream on Broadway World Opera.
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Osada discusses his influences and composing process on StageBuddy.
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Moto Osada talks about the origin of Four Nights of Dream on OperaWire.
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2015 |
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July-Aug
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The
International Vadstena Academy premieres new opera Son of Heaven at the Vadstena
Summer Opera Festival, Sweden (12 performances until Aug 5).

Reviews Photo
gallery
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2012 |
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Nov 8
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New York City Opera
showcases Four Nights of Dream
at VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab, New York, NY, USA.
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Aug 9
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Thomas Osuga performs Atomotium for piano at the Sulzbach-Rosenberg
International Music Festival in Bavaria, Germany.
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April 8 |
Yumi Suehiro performs Atomotium for piano at the Composer’s
Voice Concert series, Perspective:
Japan, New York, NY, USA.
Watch it on YouTube
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2011 |
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Dec 4
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Shmuel
Katz performs Mifune for
viola solo at the New York University Distinguished Faculty Recitals
series, New York, NY, USA. |
2010 |
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July 16 |
Sachiko Kato
performs Bukuchi U Bukuchi A for piano solo at the Djour
Festival,
Béjaïa, Algeria.
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Jan 30
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Brave New Works perform Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano at the Roulette,
New York, NY, USA.
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Jan 29
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Brave New Works
perform Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano at the Barnes
Auditorium, Department
of Music, Cornell
University
Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Jan |
Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano wins 2009 Brave
New Works Call for Scores.
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2009 |
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Nov 7 |
Makoto Nakura performs Sylvan Lay
and Pastoral Air for marimba
solo at Hakuju Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
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Nov 3
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Makoto Nakura
performs Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo at Aoyama Music
Memorial Hall, Kyoto, Japan.
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July 21
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Sumire
Kudo and Haruka
Fujii premiere Duo for cello and percussion at the Juilliard School,
New York, NY, USA.
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May 18
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Makoto Nakura
performs Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo at Grace United
Methodist Church, Manassas, Virgina, USA.
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May 17
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Makoto Nakura
performs Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo at The Odeon Chamber Music
Series at St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, Falls Church, Virginia.
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May 15
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Makoto Nakura
performs Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo at Westminster at
Lake Ridge, Lake Ridge, Virginia.
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May 6
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Makoto Nakura
performs Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo at
The
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
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April 29
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Thomas Osuga
performs Atomotium for piano solo at The Diller-Quaile
School of Music, New York, New York, USA.
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April 24
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Thomas Osuga
performs Atomotium for
piano solo at the Music and Migration Lecture/Concert series at Connecticut College, New London,
Connecticut, USA
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Jan
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Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano is awarded
with a special Mention of
Excellency in the Kuhmo Chamber Music
Festival International Composition Competition (sponsored by the
Finnish Ministry of Education).
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2008 |
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Nov 11 |
Georg Gulyás performs
Jag unnar dig ändå allt gott (from Three
Nordic Songs for guitar solo)
at Dalarnas
Museum in Falun, Sweden.
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Nov 6 |
Makoto Nakura showcases
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
at the Percussive Arts
Society International Convention in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Oct 13 |
Georg Gulyás performs
Jiuta and Jag unnar dig ändå
allt gott (from Three Japanese Songs and Three Nordic Songs, respectively) on
his guitar solo recital at Nybrokajen
11 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Oct 11 |
Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
at State House of Hyogo Prefecture in Hyogo, Japan during the Motomachi
Music Week.
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Sept 24 |
Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
at Teatro de Cámara in Chihuahua, Mexico during Festival
Internacional Chihuahua.
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Sept 20 |
Chamber opera Four
Nights of Dream is broadcast on SR
(Swedish Radio) P2 Live Opera in its entirety.
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Aug 20 |
Sachiko Kato premieres Bukuchi
U Bukuchi A for piano solo at the Phoenix Hall in Osaka,
Japan as part of the Phoenix Evolution series.
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July 22 |
Another review on
opera Four Nights of Dream by Karin Helander
of Svenska Dagbladet (SvD):
"Irresistible dreams... The music is easily accessible, dynamic
and often breathtakingly beautiful... the symbolic theatrical
interpretation and the imagination-inspiring power of the
music...create the dream in this different, fascinating and very
notable opera event."
Click
here to read the entire review (English).
Click
here to read the entire review (Swedish).
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July 21 |
Four Nights of
Dream is reviewed by Per Feltzin of Swedish Radio Culture News:
"A dreamy wise move in Vadstena!... This is Osada's first
opera. Let it not be his last!"
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July 20
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Four Nights of
Dream is reviewed by Sara Norling of Dagens Nyheter:
"It is surreal, beautiful and extremely strong… one of the
strongest performances I have ever seen from Vadstena Academy."
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July 19 |
Chamber opera Four
Nights of Dream is
premiered at Vadstena Castle in Vadstena, Sweden by the Vadstena
Academy. The run of the opera continues until August 3 (eleven
performances altogether).

Click
here to see the photo gallery on Flickr
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July 11 |
Moto Osada talks
about his new opera Four Nights of
Dream in his interview with Swedish newspaper SvD.

Click
here to read the entire interview (Swedish).
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June 18
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Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
at Teatro Globo in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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May 21
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JoHaKyu for
cello and piano, Atomotium for piano, Three Japanese Songs for guitar
solo, Three Nordic Songs for guitar solo, and Porcine Go-go for flute, violin, cello
and piano are performed on the VAKA - Music of
Moto Osada concert at Nalen in Stockholm, Sweden.
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April 18 |
Adam Eason performs JoHaKyu
for cello and piano on his recital at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, TX, USA.
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April 13-14
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Greg
Giannascoli performs Take
the Six for marimba and electronics at
Stonebridge Auditorium in Skillman, NJ, USA.
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Mar 26
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Osada awarded a Composer
Assistance Program (CAP) grant from the American Music Center for his new opera
Four Nights of Dream.
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Mar 12 |
Georg Gulyás performs
Three Nordic Songs for guitar solo at
Vallentuna Church in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Mar 2
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Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
at the Anderson Center Chamber Hall at Binghamton University as
part of the South of the Border:
Explorations series presented by the Binghamton
Philharmonic.
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Feb 21 |
Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
on his Concerts at One
recital at Trinity Church in New York, NY, USA.
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Feb 2 |
Makoto Nakura performs
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for marimba solo
on his recital at Museum Haus Kasuya
in Kanagawa, Japan.
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Jan 26
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Greg
Giannascoli performs Take
the Six for marimba and electronics on his
recital at the
Juilliard School in New York, NY, USA.
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2007 |
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Nov 18 |
Sylvan Lay
and Pastoral Air for marimba solo is
performed on the New Music Downtown! concert
presented by the New York Art Ensemble.
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July-Aug
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Beata Söderberg
performs JoHaKyu for cello and piano
on her recitals across Sweden.
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July 16 |
Makoto Nakura premieres
Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air for
marimba solo at River to River
Festival 2007 in New York, NY, USA.
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May 11 |
Greg
Giannascoli performs Take
the Six for marimba and electronics as part
of the
Weaving Japanese Sounds (Music of Modern Japan) concert series at Tenri Cultural Institute,
New York, NY, USA.
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April 12 |
The
peärls before swïne experience premieres Porcine Go-go for flute, violin, cello
and piano at Capitol in Stockholm, Sweden.
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March 13 |
The performance of
Kaguyama Dance for viola and piano is reviewed by The New York Times.
Read
the review.
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March 11
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counter)induction performs Kaguyama Dance for viola and
piano at Tenri
Cultural Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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2006
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Nov-Dec
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A month-long residency at the Rockefeller
Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy.
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Nov
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Selected as a 2006 S&R
Washington Award winner by S&R Foundation.
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June 16
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Paul
Neubauer performs Mifune
for viola solo at the OK Mozart
Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA.
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June 16
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Mayumi
Sekizawa performs
Take the Six for marimba and electronics at
Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
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Mar-
April
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A month-long residency at the
Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
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Feb
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Thomas James Osuga performs
Atomotium for piano at Mannes
College of Music, New York City, USA.
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2005 |
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Dec
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Thomas James Osuga performs
Atomotium for piano at Dana
School of Music, Youngstown State University in Ohio
and at the Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, NJ.
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July
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Kaguyama Dance for viola
and piano is named a semi-final composition in the 2005
Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composers Competition (open to
all nationalities/ages).
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June 10
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Three Bagatelles for
violin, cello, and piano is premiered by
violinist Yosuke Kawasaki, cellist Katherine
Cherbas and pianist Sachiko Kato as part of the Weaving Japanese
Sounds (Music of Modern Japan) concert at Yamaha Artist
Services’ Piano Salon in New York.
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April
7
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Take the Six for marimba
and electronics is presented as part of the Cutting Edge Concerts
series in New York.
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Feb 10
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JoHaKyu for cello and
piano is presented as part of the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center’s distinguished Double Exposure
series in New York.
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