Hikaru Iwakawa

When:
2016 / 10 / 29 (Sat)
Live House:
Jazz Spot Candy - Inage, Chiba
Categories:
Acoustic, Instrumental, World
Open Time:
19:00
Start Time:
19:30
Adv. Price:
3500 Yen (incl 1D)
Door Price:
4000 Yen (incl 1D)
Website:
http://blog.livedoor.jp/jazzspotcandy/archives/52249706.html
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Hikaru Iwakawa

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Hikaru IWAKAWA: quena player, composer, music producer

Hikaru Iwakawa : MUSIC SHARE#52@Red Bull Studios Tokyo

Hikaru Iwakawa is considered one of the most important quena players who can bring this instrument to the next level, and also regarded as a remarkably talented composer of his generation.
Although trained as a classical (specialized in the baroque / modern music with the recorder) and Latin-American traditional musician, his music incorporates various elements and influences including the folk music of his birthplace, jazz, contemporary, cultural-anthropology, poetry, philosophy, and more.
Iwakawa was born in Hirosaki city, Japan, in 1988, before relocating to Tokyo in 2010 / Buenos Aires in 2013, he currently resides in these two towns.
He began playing the quena at the age of 9 initially through self-taught, and started performing in concerts when he was 12 years old. At the same period, he also studied the baroque / modern recorder; it makes him a very special and unique player of the quena, unlike most players, and permit him to play this flute with fantastic virtuosity, very extensive capability and flexible technique.
Since 2008, he has traveled to many Latin-American countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, to continue his investigation about the folk music in these countries under the modernizations and the influences from its traditional cultures. After that, under strong influences of these travels and investigations, he realized his own artistic necessity.
As soloist and with other projects, he has performed in such important festivals in several countries as; "Músicas del Mundo 2011" (Quito, Ecuador), "Festival of music for the 'new' world" (Tokyo, Japan), "Tantanakuy 40años de identidad cultural" (Jujuy, Argentina), "Festival Internacional JAZZ Buenos Aires 2015" (Buenos Aires, Argentina), etc. And also he has given such great concert tours as; "Quique Sinesi & Hikaru Iwakawa Duo Japan Tour 2012", "Hikaru Iwakawa Trio Japan Tour 2014", "Quique Sinesi & Hikaru Iwakawa Japan Tour 2014 -deseo-", "Serkan Yilmaz & Hikaru Iwakawa Japan Tour 2015 -amalgama-", etc.
Iwakawa has performed in concerts and recorded with such great artists in the worldwide music scenes as; Dino Saluzzi, Jaime Torres, Ramón Ayala, Juan Falú, Quique Sinesi, Daniel Mille, Silvia Iriondo, Carolina Peleritti, Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos del Ecuador, Nora Sarmoria, Héctor Osaky, Leonardo Bravo, Marcos Fernandes, etc.
Recently, he has developed new materials for his label and music production “OTONOMADO” founded in 2015.
As soloist and band (co-) leader, he recorded three albums for his anterior label “LUCES DE MADRUGADA”; “deseo” (2014 / Quique Sinesi & Hikaru Iwakawa Duo), “primero” (2014 / Hikaru Iwakawa Trio), and “amalgama” (2015 / Serkan Yilmaz & Hikaru Iwakawa).
In 2016, Iwakawa recorded his newest albums; “SOLO” as soloist and “SEGUNDO” with his trio.


Live House

Live House:
Jazz Spot Candy
Address:
3-10-12 Inage-Higashi, Inage-ku, Chiba
Area:
Inage, Chiba
Address (Japanese):
千葉市稲毛区稲毛東3-10-1
Closest stations:
Inage, Keisei-Inage
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