箏のための小協奏曲ファンタジア Small Concerto for Koto ~ Fantasia –   Tadao Sawai 1970 It is an indoor concerto with solo koto and koto group, each [more]

百花譜  Album of One Hundred Flowers Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter – Tadao Sawai This piece consists of linked parts representing the seasons. Spring, [more]

Burning House  – Liza Lim Original Japanese poem by Izumi Shikibu Translations by Jane Mansfield and Mariko Aratani. English translation: Wakened by the [more]

Chinkon  鎮魂– Mark Isaacs CHINKON for solo bass koto is named after the Japanese word meaning to ”calm the spirits”. It was commissioned [more]

The Silver Pavilion – Ian Cleworth I have known both Kazue Sawai and Satsuki Odamura for over two decades and have played with [more]

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

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

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

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

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]