Artist Detail

Shoko Hikage

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Biography:

Shoko Hikage studied the koto with Chizuga Kimura, Seiga Adachi and Shizuga Adachi of the Ikuta Ryu Sokyoku Seigen Kai. In 1988, She graduated from Takasaki College with a major in koto music, and was immediately accepted as a special research student in Sawai Sokyoku In under Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, where she subsequently received her master's certificate. In 1992, she moved to Honolulu to teach at the Sawai Koto Kai Hawaii. Currently she is an artist in residence at the JCCCNC where she teaches koto and furthers her interest in improvisational dance and music. First solo original compositions & improvisations CD released on 1997.

Work-In-Progress:

koto trio LANTANA: Shoko Hikage, Noriko Tusboi & Ryuko Mizutani
Live recording CD "Tanka" released from Sparkling Beatnik Records

Koto Duo: Shoko & Noriko
New CD will be released

Address: P.O. Box 15468
San francisco, CA 94115
Email: shokohikage@yahoo.com

Upcoming Events:

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)

2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley

Friday, Sep 10 2010 7:30 PM

L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA
Beginning of Edo Period
(Doors 5 p.m., DJ 6:30 p.m.)
Programmed by Tomo Yasuda

The sound of the koto, a traditional Japanese stringed instrument, provides the “soundtrack” for a live painting—a work of visual art completed as a public performance—by the duo the Bahama Kangaroos (artists Naoki Onodera and Yukako Ezoe Onodera). Shoko Hikage and Kanoko Nishi perform traditional works for koto ranging from the beginning of the Edo period to contemporary compositions. Beginning of the Edo Period is programmed in conjunction with the exhibition Flowers of the Four Seasons.
See http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/clarkcenter for more information on the exhibition.
For more information on L@TE programs and our guest programmers, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late.
Galleries Open Until 9 p.m.

$7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students.

CDs on which Shoko Hikage appears:

Artist	Title	Label	Number
Cooke Quintet	an indefinite suspension of the possible	Black Hat Records	BH-1004
Lantana Koto Trio	Tanka	Sparkling Beatnik Records	SBR0025
Philip Gelb, Shoko Hikage, Brett Larner	Indistancing	Leo	111
Shoko Hikage	Original Compositions & Improvisations	Self Produced	100
The Left Coast Improv Group	The Left Coast Improv Group	Jimzeen Productions	CD1003