Wisteria Growing Upwards

19/10/201819/10/2018Don

Wisteria Growing Upwards – Sean Blake Valenzuela I named this piece Wisteria Growing Upwards because as I am a very visual person, once [more]

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Moonlight through Cinder

19/10/201819/10/2018Don

Moonlight through Cinder – Eitan Muir 2018 ‘Moonlight Through Cinder’ alludes to life in the midst of citywide renovations, in which increasing building [more]

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Rain Has Passed

19/10/2018Don

Rain Has Passed – Sandy Evans To help with my composition process for these koto ensemble pieces, Satsuki kindly lent me (a non-koto [more]

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Her Wild Spirit

19/10/2018Don

Her Wild Spirit – Sandy Evans Her Wild Spirit draws inspiration from the atmosphere and rhythms of both the great Japanese koto player [more]

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Gogatsu No Shinju

19/10/2018Don

五月の真珠 (Gogatsu No Shinju) – Sandy Evans I had the good fortune to meet koto virtuoso Satsuki Odamura in the early 1990s, [more]

Past Concerts

Sydney Sacred Music Festival: 15 September

07/09/201822/10/2020Don

In this new work conceived for the Sydney Sacred Music Festival, saxophonist [more]

Past Concerts

Bello Winter Music Festival – July 12-15 2018

09/04/201807/09/2018Don

When: July 12-15 2018 Where: 35 Hyde St, Bellingen, NSW 2454 More information at: http://www.bellowintermusic.com/ [more]

Past Concerts

Koto Transformation – 26 May/1 June 2018

16/02/201807/09/2018Don

KOTO TRANSFORMATION AUSTRALIS Performance Schedule Sydney – Saturday, 26 May 2018. Io Myers Studio, UNSW. Gate 2, High St, Kensington Matinee Performance @ [more]

Past Concerts

Sizzle/Ensemble Offspring – April 29 2018

16/02/201807/09/2018Don

From art music to pop music and everything in between, Sizzle returns to the Petersham Bowling Club for another year of free, family-friendly [more]

Past Concerts

Commonalities Beyond Borders – 9 March 2018

16/02/201807/09/2018Don

Commonalities Beyond Borders The Koto and Guqin Presented by the Asia Society Time: 6pm – 8:30pm Venue: Entrance Court, Art Gallery of NSW, Art [more]

NEWS

Article in Loud Mouth E-zine: ‘Inside the Musician’

04/01/201804/01/2018Don

I recently wrote about my journey as a koto musician for Loud Mouth magazine’s ‘Inside the Musician’ series. The article is available online [more]

Composer's Notes

Kinuta Sansho

07/11/2017Don

砧三章 Kinuta Sansho – Tadao Sawai The first and third movements of this piece combine the traditional “kinuta-ji” motif with interweaving rhythms by [more]