Artists - Yamaha

Momoko Kamiya

Ms. Kamiya actively presents concerts and masterclasses throughout Japan and abroad. She has served on the juries of international competitions in 10 countries.

Claudio Santangelo

Il est considéré par la critique comme l'un des talents les plus jeunes et les plus brillants du monde de la percussion solo, doué d'une sensibilité musicale et d'une créativité de composition et d'interprétation qui le placent au sommet des jeunes solistes virtuoses du marimba.

Calum Huggan

Calum's passion for percussion spans performance, collaboration and teaching.

Ria Ideta

Ria Ideta was born 1982 in Vienna to a musical family. At the age of six, she began playing the piano and marimba in Japan.

Axoum Duo

Elwira Slazak et Gabriel Collet sont des percussionnistes polonais-français - des musiciens de formation classique - spécialisés dans les duos Marimba. Leur parcours musical a commencé avec la musique contemporaine. Très tôt, ils ont commencé à collaborer avec des compositeurs émergents, créant un nouveau répertoire. Through their own musical language they perform a repertoire mostly consisting of compositions and arrangements written by Gabriel Collet, specifically for the duo. In addition to their concert activities, the duo writes soundtracks for documentaries and works with different musicians, singers, dancers and painters. Fully committed to contemporary music, they have made many first performances of new pieces, some of which have been dedicated to them.

Jean Geoffroy

Après des études au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, où il obtient un Premier Prix en Percussion, Jean Geoffroy a su, dans le monde de la percussion, s’inventer un chemin personnel qui l’a conduit à susciter et à jouer de nombreuses oeuvres.

Tchiki duo

Founded in 2006 by Jacques Hostettler & Nicolas Suter, Tchiki duo is considered today as the world leading Marimba duo.

Neil Percy

Neil Percy is the principal percussionist with the London Symphony Orchestra. With a passion for music education, he is also head of Timpani and Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Tsuey-Ying Tai

Tsuey-Ying Tai studied percussion with professors Ya-Wen Lien, Tzang-Ching Ju and Sarah Tsai at the Chung-Cheng Senior High School.

Isao Nakamura

Isao Nakamura has taught at the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (1994-2006), Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Seminar and Festival in Japan (1991-1998) and is Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe since 1992.