Asian Performing Arts Concert Series 

Asian Performing Arts Concert Series has been held mainly at XEBEC HALL, Kobe, Japan in order to introduce the Japanese traditional performing arts and Asian one since 1989.
The traditional performing arts in Asian countries has each own characteristics and they have been historically keeping on influencing each other so far. On this concert series we try to show both Japanese and the other Asian countrie's traditional arts on the same stage. So that we are able to come to know their differences and similarities. If some new form of performing arts is created out of the series, it will be meaningful and wonderful for us. We would like to continue the series. Following table shows the concerts we have organized so far. 

  1. The Sound of Buddhist Mantra and Indian Music
    89.11.25/Amit Roy, Kobe Mikkyo Kenkyukai (group of monks of Shingon Sect of Buddhist)/Hindustani music and Shingon Shomyo Chanting
  2. Exciting Gamelan+Japanese Drum
    90.6.24/Gamelan group Darma Budaya, Inoue Ichiro/Traditional Javanese and Sundanese music/Contemporary music for Gamelan/Exciting session by Gamelan and the huge Japanese Drum,Taiko
  3. Asian Super Flutists 1
    90.11.16/Hariprasad Chaurasia, Lyu Hong-Jun, John Kaizan Neptune/Hindustani music on bansuri, Japanese on Shakuhaci, Chinese on Di/The flute virtuosos from India, China and Japan/Whole night program
  4. The Court Music-Japan and India
    91.4.6/Amit Roy, Pabitra Debnath, La Moo (Gagaku)/Japanese Gagaku and Hindustani music/Gagaku was played with tabla!!
  5. Exciting Gamelan in Summer
    91.7.21/Gamelan group Darma Budaya/Contemporary music for Gamelan and Darma Budaya's original compositions/held at Ba:z bldg.
  6. Violin in Asia
    91.9.18/D.K.Datar, Raghavendra Kulkarni/Hindustani music on violin/violin is not only for Western music
  7. Sing Songs With Plucking Strings
    92.6.28/Hamza El=Din, Tokuhisa Jukiyo/Folk songs with Sanshin in Amami Island /Nubian songs with Oud/Lullabies for the Earth
  8. Exciting Gamelan in Summer 2
    92.7.26/Gamelan group Darma Budaya/Darma Budaya's original composition "Lagu Lagu Campur"/held at Ba:z bldg.
  9. The Art of Improvisation 1
    92.8.30/Sultan Khan, Amit Roy, Fazal Qureshi/Hindustani music on sarangi and sitarThe series of Asian virtuosos 1 /sarangi master, Sultan Khan's art
  10. Soh and Chinese Gu-Zheng
    92.10.18/Jin Jieng, Fukuhara Sawako/Japanese and Chinese traditional music on Soh and Hu-Zheng/What a beautiful Fall!!
  11. Asian Super Flutists 2
    93.7.17/Hariprasad Chaurasia, Matsuda Hiroyuki, Ohkura Genjiro, Won Changhyun/Hindustani music on bansuri, Japanese on Noh-kan, Korean on taegum/The flute virtuosos from India, Korea and Japan/Whole night program
  12. The Sound of Buddhist Mantra and the Music of India
    93.10.2/Amitaba Sangam (A group of Jodo Sect monks), Amit Roy/Shoyaraisan/Hindustani music on sitar / Jodo Sutra with Indian instruments/How does the music sound in the Pureland
  13. Asian Music Typhoon
    94.4.27/John Kaizan Neptune and Asiabeat/John's original compositions/New sounds by Asiabeat
  14. The Art of Improvisation 2
    94.8.21/Rashid KHAN, Amit ROY, Tanmoy BOSE/Hindustani music on vocal and on sitar/The world of improvisational music in India
  15. The Music of Pureland
    96.11.22/Shichiseikai (shomyo group of Jodo Sect), Amit ROY, SAKURAI Makiko/ritual/new shomyo 1/ new shomyo 2/ shomyo with Indian music/How does the music sound in the Pureland
  16. The Art of Improvisation 3
    97.12.7/Amit ROY, Kul Bhushan BHARAGAVA, FUJII Chihiro, Kamini, TANAKA Riko/Hindustani music concert/Tabla Solo/Raga Rageshree
  17. Asian Super Flutists 3
    98.10.4, 16:00~19:00/Hariprasad CHAURASIA:Bansuri, Anuradha PAL:Tabla, SENBA Kiyohiko:Percussion, FUKUHARA Kan:Fue, HIROS, TERAHARA Taro, Kamini/The music of Kabuki, The session by tabla and Kabuki music, Hindustani music on bansuri
  18. The Art of Improvisation 4
    99.8.27, 19:00~21:30/Dhruba GHOSH, Amit ROY, Kul Bhushan BHARAGAVA, TERAHARA Taro, TANAKA Riko/Hindustani music on Sarangi and Sitar
  19. SHOMYO and The Indian Music ~ A Meeting of Origins
    2000.11.24, 19:00~/Shichiseikai:Shomyo, Amit ROY:SItar,Kul Bhushan BHARAGAVA:Tabla, TERAHARA Taro+SHIMIZU Yuki:Tambura, HIROS:Bansuri
  20. GAGAKU-Then and Now
    2001.8.25, 19:00~/TENRI University GAGAKU group, MAHORA
  21. Japanese Nagauta and Mongolian Urtin-Do
    2002.9.23, 19:00~/Yuko IMAFUJI, Fumiko IMAFUJI, Ikuko IMAFUJI, Misao IMAFUJI, Choichiro IMAFUJI, SHARHUUKHKN:urtin duu, Has Baator:khoomi , Amarbayar: morinkhuur, Enhebatu:limbe
  22. Japanese Kokyu and Chinese Er-hu

    2003.9.23, 16:00~/Sawako FUKUHARA: So+Kokyu, Shingo IKEGAMI:So+Kokyu, Tishimitsu ISHIKAWA: Shakuhachi, Jia-Pengfang: Er-hu, Jiang-Xiaoqing:Gu-Zhen, Jiang Ting:Pipa