Makiko Hirata

USJLP – Day 1

I’ve always loved writing. I started my first daily journal as a third grader, and didn’t skip a day for a year – I remember because my third-grade teacher awarded me a medal in front of my class for it. I started writing poems as a senior in high school and kept it up through […]

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Album Recording

My favorite clarinetist, Maiko Sasaki and I have been recording an album: “100 Years: Early Beethoven and Late Brahms, Op. 2-1 (1795) vs. Op. 120 (1894)” at Wire Road Studio in Houston, TX and recording engineer, Andy Bradly. http://www.wireroadstudios.com/ Playing for an audience, and playing to be recorded are very, very different. With an audience to

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