Events
2024/25 SEASON
10/4-5 “Bridge to Japan”, Sakiko Ohashi and Reiko Tachibana will perform my piece Fandango
The Moss Center, Morikami Theater in Florida
!0/13 Opening Concert, Twin Cities Early Music Festival
with Charles Asch
11/23 Baroque Tango with Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet
https://www.bachsocietymn.org/
12/7-8 Navidad Nuestra and Latin American Baroque VIllancicos
https://bordercrossingmn.org/
3/30 Baroque Tango with Charles Gorczynski Tango Quartet
https://www.bachsocietymn.org/
6/7 , 3pm Harukaze Festival, https://www.mn-japan.org/
6/11, 6pm Resilience Concert Series - University Club of St.Paul
Italian Baroque with Charles Asch and Eva Skanse
7/13 Italian Baroque with Charles Asch and Eva Skanse
St Edward the Confessor Church
7/24, 26 Bach Society of Minnesota https://www.bachsocietymn.org/
2023/24 SEASON
9/22-23, Voices from Heaven. Music by Bach, Lully, Telemann etc. with Bach Society of Minnesota, https://www.bachsocietymn.org/
10/28, Consortium Carissimi, Schubert Club https://consortiumcarissimi.org/
12/15-16, Christmas Oratorio by Bach. With Bach Society of Minnesota
3/23, Stabat Mater, a Lenten Meditation Concert,
Holy Cross Catholic Church
4/6-8, The Cantata:Stories in Sound with Minnesota Bach Ensemble, Premiere of new Cantata by Asako Hirabayashi, https://www.mnbach.org/
5/19, Harukaze Festival, https://www.mn-japan.org/
5/31-6/1, One Night in the Fairy Forest, https://www.bachsocietymn.org/
6/1, The Legend of Feathered Robe, Sundin Hall in St.Paul
6/20-30, Romeo and Juliet, Love in a Time of Hate, Teatro del Pueblo, https://my.luminaryartscenter.com/
7/7, Ballet Fantasy, Nagahama City, Japan
2022/23 SEASON
12/10 (7pm) ,11(4pm) Handel’s Messiah Concert
St.John Lutheran Church in Minneapolis
2/15 (10am), Lecture on Opera Hebionna, Winthrop University
2/26 (3pm) World Premiere of The Garden of Joy
3/24, Limerick Early Music Festival (Ireland)
University of Limerick lecture
3/29, University of Maynooth (Ireland) lecture
4/12 (noon), Coffee Concert, St.Paul Conseravtory of Music
4/25, Rough Cuts 200!! Nautilus Theater
6/11, Japan America Society of Minnesota “Harukaze Festival”
World Premiere of Concert Opera “The Boy Who Drew Cats”
6/23, Windsor Music Festival, Saskiko Ohashi plays Fandango, Vermont
2021/22 SEASON
1/13, Coffee Concert, From Biber to Bach
St.Paul Conservatory of Music, noon
1/17, Bach Society of Minnesota, All Roads Lead to Bach
with Margaret Humphrey
Baroque Room
2/5, MN Opera, MNiatures; Tiny Operas, Big Ideas
Dear America, Beat Your Heart Defiantly, Naked and Open with Love , with Rebecca Nichloson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzorLZAi6E
8/6, World Premiere of Duo for Keyboards, and other my compositions with Natsuki Kumagai, Gail Olszewski
Schubert Club
11/13, Festival of American Music , Concert for multiple harpsichords Music
Sacramento School of Music
3/12, 8pm, A Lenten Meditation Concert: Stabat Mater
Holy Cross Catholic Church
5/13, noon, University Club of Saint Paul
Resilience Lunchtime Music Series
420 Summit Ave, St. Paul MN 55102
Free admission
5/13, 7-9pm, Sample performance of opera Hebionna at Art Crawl, St.Paul
6/25, 3pm, Opera Hebionna Reading Concert
Charlotte New Music Festival, Rowe Recital Hall, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9201 University Blvd. Charlotte, NC
6, Commissioned opera by Minnesota Opera, Very Special Minnesota Garden was premiered and streamed on line
8/31, HyeonHo Jeon Solo Recital
Featured my composition Fore Clea was performed with Hanna Lee in Seoul Korea.
2019/20 SEASON
10/12-13, Nautilus Music Theater Rough Cuts of my Opera Hebionna
Nautilus Theater, Walker Community Church, 7pm
10/19, “Baroque Music in Asia” (Heritage Concert Series)”My Quartet will be performed.
Stanley, Hong Kong
11/3, Chamber Music Society of Minnesota Featuring Nobuko Imai
Sundin Music Hall, 4pm
11/6 My solo harpsichord piece, For Tami, Dance will be performed by Julie Ventoura
Museum of the City of Athens, Greece
1/23, Schubert Club Courtroom Concert, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, Piano will be performed by Merilee Klemp, Laurie Merz, Mimi Tung
2/1-2, “La Colonia” Broder CosSing
https://bordercrossingmn.org/event/puentes-la-colonia-2/
4/4, St. John Passion, Bach Society of Minnesota
https://bachsocietymn.org/2019/07/11/bachs-st-john-passion/
8/4, Rush Hour Concerts/International Music Foundation
https://imfchicago.org/programs/rush-hour-concerts/?fbclid=IwAR2w2fn_05XX_ATcalwNDmRXKgn7NnWLDB95gnERfz3OYPYbL556mEHdn4c
2018/19 SEASON
9/22-23, "Yume" A collaboartion of Ballet and live music by Japanese artists of Minnesota
World premiere of Trio for Soprano, Cello and Piano (2018) by Asako Hirabayashi with Sachiya Isomura, Momoko Tanno, Yuki Tokuda
https://yuki-tokuda.ticketleap.com/yume
10/22-11/2, Artist in Residence “Hinge Arts Residency at Kirkbride”
11/10, MacPhail Spotlight Series “Masters of the Keyboard”
12/15, 8pm, Border CrosSing Concert “Messiah”
Church of the Ascension, 1723 Bryant Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411
2/14-17, “The Baroque Era in a Modern Age” My concerto for 4 harpsichords and strings performed by Desert Baroque
www.desertbaroque.com
2/17 Bauman Fine Art Series
3/22-23, Border CrosSing “island Baroque”
http://www.bordercrossingmn.org/concerts/
4/27, Music Crawl, Cerulean Fire, Bach Society of Minnesota
Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, #280 St.Paul MN 55101)Baroque Room
5/10, Noon, Baroque Room Free Lunch Time Concert Series
Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, #280 St.Paul MN 55101)Baroque Room
5/12, Recital Jennifer Lang
Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, #280 St.Paul MN 55101)Baroque Room
5/24, Compositum Musicae Novae, My compositions performed by Elena Zamolodchikova
www.cmnarts.org
6/9, Lecture “New Interpretation of English Virginalists’ Ornament Signs”
Toho Gakuen Music School, Tokyo, Japan
6/25, “Old Dog New Tricks” My compositions performed by John Ignatowski, Paul Lundin
Bay de Noc Community College
7/28, Harukaze Festival, World Premiere of pieces for Shamisen and Piano
Sundin Hall, 3pm
8/16, Contemporary Gugak Concert, World Premiere of Quartet for voice, violin, cello and harpsichord.
Seoul Korea.
2017/18 SEASON
9/30, 5pm, Jane & John West House Concert
“Affection” by David Evan Thomas with Clea Galhano, Brisa de Paula, Marilee Klemp, Margaret Humphrey.
10/15, 5pm, Oratory Concert
Premiere of Sola Fide by Matthew Olson, Bach’s Cantata, Westwood Lutheran Church (St.Louis Park)
10/28, 5pm, Mondale Dinner Award & Scholarship Gala
12/13, 8pm, Border CrosSing presents “El Mesias”
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (401 Concord St., St.Paul)a
12/17, 3pm, “Noel” Bauman Fine Art Series I
with Maria Jette ,Hazel Park Congregational United Church of Christ (1831 Minnehaha Ave E, St Paul, MN 55119)
2/15 Noon, Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series
Cerulean Fire presents J.S.Bach https://schubert.org/concerts/courtroom-concert-2016-2017/
2/23, Noon, Baroque Room Free Lunch Time Concert Series
Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, #280 St.Paul MN 55101)
2/25, 3pm, “The German-Italian Connection - Charles Asch & Asako Hirabayashi”
Baroque Room (275 East 4th Street, #280 St.Paul MN 55101)https://www.thebaroqueroom.com/calendar/2018/2/25/the-german-italian-connection
3/14, Noon, “Bach to Now” St.Paul Conservatory of Music Coffee Concert Series
with Daria Adams, University Club of Saint Paul (420 Summit Ave, St Paul, MN 55102) https://thespcm.org/events-calendar/
4/15, 3pm “World Music in Motion” Bauman Fine Art Series II
Cerulean Fire (Margaret Humphrey/Asako Hirabayashi) will present music from Baroque to contemporary collaborating with the principal dancer from Continental Ballet Company, Yuki Tokuda. Hazel Park Congregational United Church of Christ (1831 Minnehaha Ave E, St Paul, MN 55119)
5/9, Noon, "Keyboard Extravaganza" St.Paul Conservatory of Music Coffee Concert Series
With Peter Arnstein, Patricia Mcpherson, Rie Tanaka, Sundin Music Hall
5/9-12, HISTORICAL KEYBOARD SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (HKSNA), Alienor Concert
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, http://historicalkeyboardsociety.org/
6/8, 1 pm, Friday Music Club, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano performed
6/10, 4pm, “Musical and Floral Metamorphosis ” Japan America Society of Minnesota’s Harukaze Festival
featured artists, Cerulean Fire presents premiere of Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings (2018)by Asako Hirabayashi
Park Square Theatre | Historic Hamm Building | 20 West 7th Place | Saint Paul, MN 55102 | Ticket Office 651.291.7005
http://parksquaretheatre.org/
8/7, 8 pm, "Moving Sounds" Twin Cities Early Music Festival
with Elizabeth York, Josh Schwalbach, Yuki Tokuda
https://www.tcearlymusic.org/