Overseas Concerts by Japan Kocarina Ensemble

Japan Kocarina Ensemble holds concerts in many places in the world. For example, we joined pre-Beijing Olympiad Cultural Events held in July in 2006 and 2007. We played the Kocarina in Wangfujing Street, the most busiest and famous area in Beijing, and in the Great Walls, famous World Heritage Site in China.

In January 2012, we held a Kocarina concert titled “Kocarina Concert: With Many Thanks from the Affected Areas and Hope for Early Recovery from the March-11 Earthquke” in Wiener Musikverein.

This concert was to express our great gratitude for the worldwide support and assistance which Japan received after the disaster. In this special concert in Vienna, totally 110 Kocarina players joined, including 14 players belonging to Kocarina Circles in Ishinomaki and Sendai (they are both affected areas). All the seas up to the third-tier were filled with the audience. All the players played the Kocarinas made from damaged pine trees in Ishinomaki. At the end of the concert, children delegated from the affected areas neatly expressed words of thanks to the audience who gave the performers and children an endless applause and standing ovation.