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Violinist Ikko Kawai Captivates a JAIMS Audience
HONOLULU — Violin virtuoso
Ikko Kawai played to a captive audience of about a hundred people
from the local community on March 20 at JAIMS.
Kawai°s performance was generously sponsored
by Kiichiro Hasegawa, president and CEO of Proudfoot, Inc. Japan,
and co-hosted by JAIMS to show their appreciation to the community,
the faculty, students, homestay families and internship companies.
Kawai's own compositions of "Misty Woods" and "Golden
Dome" dazzled the audience while "Gypsy" and the
closing number, "Chaldash," brought the crowd to their
feet in a resounding ovation. In appreciation, she played a Hawaiian
number for her encore, "Beyond the Reef," in a rendition
put together a few days earlier by her virtuoso keyboard accompanist
from Japan, Mr. Shioiri.
Kawai is no stranger to JAIMS. She opened on
January 12, 2000 at the Banker°s Club in the First Hawaiian Bank
Center for a private audience of 42 international executives and
their spouses who were participating in the Drucker School-JAIMS
Inaugural Roundtable.
Known for her creative genius and captivating stage
presence, Kawai has received high acclaim in Japan. She appears regularly
on NHK programs and as a guest soloist for events nationwide. She
has released three albums by Japan Polydor, with a fourth album to
be released by Victor Entertainment in May 2000. Kawai
received her B.A. and M.A. from the Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music. She has studied with Japanese professors Yoko
Tabuchi, Yoshio Unno, Takaya Urakawa, Kosaku Yamaoka and Kouichiro
Harada, as well as with Dorothy Delay and Hyon Kahn of the Juilliard
School in New York and Boris Kushnir of the Music Conservatory in
Vienna.
For more information on Kawai, visit her website
at www.ss.iij4u.or.jp/~ikko/.
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