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Enjoy an exceptional performance by world-class jazz musicians active in New York and around the globe!
🍷 Special Program (Optional / Limited Seats)
・21:15 – After-Party at Bar MICHiya (Sanjo-Kiyamachi) ※ Available only for live participants. Advance registration required ([email protected]).
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Highly acclaimed as “one of the top-class performers both in the United States and internationally,” TAeKO spent 22 years in New York, performing at legendary jazz venues such as Blue Note, Birdland, and Smalls, as well as major jazz festivals. She has also been invited to sing the U.S. national anthem at official American events, showcasing her talent across a wide range of settings.
Since her U.S. debut in 2007, she has released four New York–recorded studio albums, all of which have continuously received airplay on jazz radio stations across the United States. In 2018, she recorded the song “Hokey Pokey” for an Apple commercial.
Now based in Kyoto since 2021, she recorded and released her live album Here’s to Life in Japan in 2024. She is also actively engaged in traditional Japanese arts, including classical koto music. TAeKO is originally from Shiga Prefecture and a graduate of Doshisha University.
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A pianist and composer, born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Kyoto.
After completing his graduate studies at ICU, he moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with highest honors. Following an active performance career, he became the first Japanese assistant professor at Berklee and was later promoted to associate professor. He has also taught at MIT, Boston University, Bridgewater, and UMASS, and has served as a specially appointed lecturer at Doshisha Women’s College since 2014
He studied piano under Takehiro Honda of Native Son and Ray Santisi at Berklee. With a repertoire of more than 1,000 pieces spanning jazz standards, pop, and classical music, he is particularly known for his unique approach of reinterpreting traditional folk songs and children’s songs from Japan and around the world through the language of jazz.
He has performed and lectured internationally in countries such as Russia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, and many others.
He has released albums and published books, and contributed long-running columns to leading jazz magazines, including “Talking Live” in JAZZ JAPAN and essays on life as a pianist in America for Jazz Life.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/map-pin_gray.svg" alt="/icons/map-pin_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Venue｜Tentoku-in, Sub-temple of Tofuku-ji, Kyoto
🗺️ Address: 15-803 Honmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
🚉 Nearest Station: About 5 minutes on foot from JR or Keihan Tofuku-ji Station
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Afn8VBUp2vGrYhx28
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Founded in 1236 by Regent Kujō Michie, Tofuku-ji is the head temple of the Rinzai sect’s Tofuku-ji school of Zen Buddhism. Its name combines characters from two great Nara temples—Tōdai-ji and Kōfuku-ji—reflecting its ambition to become a center of Buddhist practice.
Ranked fourth among the Five Great Zen Temples of Kyoto (Kyoto Gozan), Tofuku-ji holds a distinguished place in the history of Japanese Zen.
Within its vast grounds are many notable sites, including the Sanmon Gate, a designated National Treasure, and the Tsūtenkyō Bridge, famed for its breathtaking views of autumn leaves. Each fall, over 2,000 maple trees turn brilliant shades of red, drawing thousands of visitors from across Japan and abroad.
📍 Address: 15-778 Honmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
🌐 Official Website (Japanese): https://tofukuji.jp
Tentoku-in is one of the sub-temples (tatchū) of Tofuku-ji, founded in 1346 by Zen Master Muumu Ikkei, the 30th abbot of Tofuku-ji. It is renowned for its dry landscape garden designed during the Momoyama period, where lush sugi-goke moss blankets the grounds and around 300 bellflowers (kikyo) bloom beautifully in early summer—giving the temple the nickname “Temple of Bellflowers.”
Though typically closed to the public, Tentoku-in offers limited public access twice a year during its seasonal special openings: one in early summer for viewing the blooming bellflowers, and another in autumn for admiring the colorful maple leaves. Visitors can enjoy a peaceful moment of reflection while taking in the quiet elegance of the changing seasons in this contemplative Zen space.
📍 Address: 15-802 Honmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan
🌐 Official Website (Japanese): https://tentokuin.jp
KYOTO, Where the Music Flows!
