As many of you know, I am on a mission to promote music as a healing agent in this world. I want to use my music to promote empathy and harmony in this divisive world through offering experiences of communal appreciation music. Music helps us realize how we share our time and space, and what […]
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What made Makiko stick to the piano? Why did she never quit? I have been writing a book, “Finding MY Music: A Pianist’s Journey,” about my fifteen-year battle with stage fright, sterotypes and sexual harassment as a young Japanese professional pianist, navigating through the American classical music industry. Because I am writing about the difficulties I
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This is me, an hour before MATIMA’s concert “Beauty (美）is Universal” at Asia Society Texas Center last night, after the tickets were completely sold out. Three hours later, I was walking on a cloud, bonding with audience members who gave us a long standing ovation, full of smiles, nods, cheers, etc. We used two microphones
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In my twenties, I decided on my life’s goal. To improve as an artist and a human being through my daily practice of music, every day until my last. I decided that I needed three things to accomplish this goal. A community to which I can contribute, and from which I can learn and be
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