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Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

 

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Sunday, January 29, 2012 12:00p-4:30p
Lunar New Year and other Asian Traditions
– the Year of the Dragon

Oakland Museum,
 1000 Oak Street and 10th Street
 Oakland, CA,
 Website: museumca.org
 

Admission: free, with Museum admission: performances, hands-on family activities, demonstrations, storytelling, stilt walkers, Chinese Yo-Yo, magic, and so much more! Highlights will feature lion and dragon dances, acrobats,
mochi pounding and tasting, Tibetan prayer-flag demonstration, and a special presentation celebrating
Fred Korematsu Day (January 30th), with a film screening and talk.

3pm Shirley Muramoto and Brian will perform “Manzanar”follwed by a talk by Karen Korematsu daughterof Fred Korematsu

Sunday, February 5, 2012 , 7pm,
 Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University

Shirley Muramoto Koto Studio has been invited to perform “Fantasia” with Kazue Sawai, grand master of the Sawai Soukyokuin in Tokyo, and some of her students/teachers from around the world, at Stanford University's Pan Asian Music Festival. It is a high honor to be able to perform with Madame Sawai, one of the top performers on the koto today.

http://ceas.stanford.edu/events/event_detail.php?id=2639
(Directions to Dinkelspiel Auditorium http://livelyarts.stanford.edu/venues/dinkelspiel.php)

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:30pm ~
 UCSC Music Center Recital Hall, Santa Cruz, CA

Featuring the California Koto Ensemble, Bach on Bars (marimba ensemble) and the Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra.
Shirley Muramoto and Brian Wong will be performing as part of the CKE, Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” (1723), led by koto virtuoso Shoko Hikage.
Tickets (website) http://www.scbaroque.com/tickets.html
$23 General
$17 Senior (62+)
$6 College Students with ID
$3 Youth:

 

Saturday May 19, 2012 7 PM
 Chidori Band Concert
San Jose Buddhist Church
640 5th Street
 San Jose, CA

Info: chidoriband.com
 

 

PAST PERFORMANCES

 

 Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto
and
 Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

Saturday, November 13 at 7:30 pm

Numi Tea Garden
2230 Livingston St (at Cotton St), Oakland, CA 94606

Tickets: $10

Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

Concert for their new CD

Koto Oyako Don

KotoOyako cover

Special guests: Jeff Massanari, guitar

Alex Baum, string bass

Anthony Brown, percussion

Muramoto and Wong will perform original and contemporary pieces from their new CD, including

“Down to the Café”, “La Cumparsita”, “Aoi Blues”,
and in tribute to Gina Hotta, her composition “Jan Ken Po”

For further information on the program and ticket reservations or purchase
please call (510) 482-1640

 

Thursday, September 16, 5:30p-7p
UC Botanical Gardens Amphitheater

 http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/bot.html?event_ID=32804&date=2010-09-16&filter=Event%20Type&filtersel=

Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 7pm-8pm

Summer Music Series
, Orinda Library
, Fireside, 26 Orinda Way, 925/254-2184,
website: http://ccclib.org/locations/orinda.html
free admission; koto performance
with Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

Saturday, July 31, 2010, 4:45pm-5:45pm
Oakland Obon Festival,
 Oakland Buddhist Church,
 825 Jackson Street,
Oakland, CA
 website: http://www.buddhistchurchofoakland.org/

free admission; koto performance with koto studios of
 Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

Monday, August 9, 2010, 4pm-6:30pm
 Peace Day, Berkeley Public Library,
 2090 Kittredge Street (at Shattuck),
 Berkeley, CA,

 website:
http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/index.php

free admission; koto performance with koto studios of
 Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhiro Wong;
reading of "Sadako and the Thousand Cranes", and origami crane folding

 

Saturday, August 15, 2010, 3 PM
 Sacramento Buddhist Church Annual Bazaar,
 2401 Riverside Blvd., Sacramento, CA 916/446-0121,

 website:
http://www.buddhistchurch.com/contact_us/contact_us.htm

free admission: koto performance with Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto and Brian Mitsuhiro Wong

 

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