Akiko Kubota

Kubota mainly performs narrative songs such as Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) and war chronicles. She also creates and performs her new narrative works based on fairy tales and folk tales. Covering a wide-range of activities, she also involves in Anime and TV music recordings, theatre music and playing with instrumental ensembles. 

She had many challenges in her musical life, such as, a new kind of biwa perfomance by two players ‘Biwa futarigatari’ called ‘Yanaka Biwa Style’. Also, she participated in an orchestra ‘Ensemble Muromachi’ comprised of Japanese traditional instruments and period instruments. Besides, the orchestra ‘Pro Musica Nipponia’ she belongs to is comprised of Japanese traditional instruments, have performed in Hong Kong Indonesia, Brazil, Bolivia before.

Kubota has also collaborated with great modern composers including Claude Ledoux, Aurelien Dumont. And she has performed many new pieces by Japanese contemporary composers such as TAKEMITSU pieces, November Steps, Autumn in China, Belgium, Germany. She is now collaborating with her teacher Yoshiko Sakata to promote the biwa education in Kagoshima, Japan.

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