Hiroaki Kanda, flute
Masahiro Yano, flute
Tsuyoshi Nohara, flute
TOKUNAGA Ake (Flute)

F. Kuhlau Flute and Trio Op. 13-1
J. Strauss (arr. Hiroaki Kanda) Overture to Die Fledermaus, etc.
*Track list and order of songs are subject to change.

Hiroaki Kanda, flute

 

Principal Flute, NHK Symphony Orchestra; Professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music
First prize winner of the Japan Flute Convention Competition and the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition. 1993 graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts, studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna for one year from 1995. 2007 graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts, where he studied with Keiichi Akahoshi, Masakuni Kim, Junzo Hosokawa, Wolfgang Schulz, and Hans-Georg Schmeiser. He studied under Keiichi Akahoshi, Chang-Kook Kim, Junzo Hosokawa, Wolfgang Schulz, and Hans-Georg Schmeiser. He is a guest professor at Osaka University of Arts and a lecturer at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He is a member of the executive board of the Asian Flute Federation in Tokyo, and a specially appointed board member of the Japan Flute Association. He is also a special-appointment director of the Japan Flute Association. Chairman of the Steering Committee of the 10th Kobe International Flute Competition.
He has released many CDs. He has arranged and published more than 60 titles of flute ensemble works, mainly quartets, but also duets and large ensembles.

 

Masahiro Yano, flute

 

After graduating from Musashino Academia Musicae with first class honors, he went on to the Salzburg Mozarteum Music University and completed graduate studies at the Trossingen Music University in Trossingen, formerly in West Germany.
While a student, he has performed and recorded throughout Germany as a member of the Philharmonisches Orchester Stuttgart.
1994 Joined the Municipal Orchestra of Joensuu, Finland as principal flute.
Since 1996, he has also been active as the conductor of his own chamber orchestra, "Ensemble Kobe".
Winner of the 2nd Matsukata Hall Music Award, Grand Prize in the wind instrument category.
In 2008, he received the Kobe Culture Encouragement Award.
Awarded the 2020 Kobe City Culture Prize