Bangkok--Oct 19--The Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre
“An Open Invitation Concert No.4” or “A Relaxing Evening of Harp and Violin with Miyoko Mitarai-violin and Ema Mitarai-harp” The theme will be used for a musical evening arranged by the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre on Friday, October 21st at the Siam Society Auditorium, Sukumvit 21 Soi Asoke, starting at 8.00 p.m.
The evening will be an easy listening program with a guest Japanese violinist- Miyoko Mitarai who will be joined by her daughter and one of our Tamnak Prathom Harpists — Ema Mitarai.
Featured solo and duo music, serenade the program of Japanese music by well-known Japanese composers — Rokudan’s T.Mayuzumi, Haru No Umi’s M.Michio, Ue Wo Muite Arukuo’s H.Nakamura, Kawa No Nagare No Youni by A.Mikasa. In addition, Music used for the Film includes with Classical pieces “Meditation from Thais” by Massenet and Czardas’s V.Monti
Miyoko Mitarai was born in Japan. She has won the first prize of “Japan student music competition” which is the most famous competition for young musicians in Japan. She has then continued her study at the Musashino College of music in Tokyo. After gaining Bachelor of Music, she became a violin tutor at the Shimonoseki and Kitakyusyu women’s college. Furthermore, she became a concertmaster of the Kitakyusyu Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, she began her concert series in 1980 and this concert series had been continued for 10 years. Between these years, she took part in Mozarteum International music summer course in Salzburg, and also played Mozart Violin Concert No 5 with the Weltenburg Orchestra. Besides working as a violinist and a teacher at the same time, she has also been elected to be one of the Shimonoseki city assemblies in 1995 up until now. In recent years, she often performed with her harpist daughter, Ema Mitarai.
Ema studied harp with the famed Josef Molnar in Tokyo. After completing her postgraduate course at the Toho Gakuen College of Music, she continued her advanced study in performance with Frank Sternfield at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the UK. She has carried on further private studies for another four years in London, and achieved a prize-winning award in the North London Music Festival in 2002, and also worked as a freelance harpist. She has been teaching privately both in Japan and the UK for a number of years. Ema is currently joining the Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre since September 2005.
Tickets: 300 baht will be available at:
The Tamnak Prathom Harp Centre, Tel. 02 261 4777-8 or
The Harp Shop, Miracle Mall tel.02 261 6769 or
Email: [email protected]
for further information and other inquiries.
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