Glenview resident Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto is having quite a 50th! She will celebrate five decades of koto playing on March 20 with a concert at the Lakeside Theater, featuring musicians from around ...

Instrumentalists in brilliantly colored kimonos assembled Sunday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland for a handsome display of koto music. The players, drawn from the Washington ...

Japanese-studies specialist and Japanese language teacher Katarzyna Karpowicz tells us about playing the koto and the Japanese musical avant-garde. Filip Lech: How did you end up in Japan? Katarzyna ...

Chicago-born Curtis Patterson has lived in Japan since 1986, dedicating himself to the koto, a traditional Japanese instrument something like the harp. In addition to composing and performing music ...

IF YOU close your eyes and imagine yourself in a tea room in Kyoto, then this performance would be the perfect soundtrack. Of course you aren’t in Japan and it takes a bit of an effort of the ...

The refined art of Koto playing is on show in this concert that includes both the more common 13-string instrument and the 17-string bass koto. The latter instrument was invented in 1921 by Miyagi ...