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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. KawaiÕs 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 BankerÕs 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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