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Events

2023/24 SEASON

9/22-23, Voices from Heaven. Muisc by Bach, Lully, Telemann etc. with Bach Society of Minnesota

12/15-16, Christmas Oratorio by Bach. With Bach Society of Minnesota

4/6-8, The Cantata:Stories in Sound with Minnesota Bach Ensemble, Premiere of new Cantata by Asako Hirabayashi

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

https://schubert.org/event/free-courtroom-concert-featuring-i-christopher-atzinger-piano-ii-merilee-klemp-oboe-laurie-merz-bassoon-mimi-tung-piano/

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/