Clive Bell - shakuhachi
Melissa Holding - koto
Robin Thompson - sho/shamisen
Bridget Carey - viola
Kate Romano - clarinets
Jinny Shaw - oboe/oboe d'amore

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O K E A N O S

Oxford Contemporary Music

Tickets: £13.50/ £10 concessions stalls, £15/ £12 concessions balcony, £5 students and under 18s
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Dai Fujikura - Touch of Breeze
Dai Fujikura - Cutting Sky
Dai Fujikura - Okeanos Breeze
Traditional - Kumoijishi
Howard Skempton - Fragments
Dan Goren - New Work*
Phillip Neil Martin - Shattered Spectra
Akiko Ogawa - Fantasia
Sadie Harrison - Jinny’s Haiku*
Paul Archbold - Songswarm
Traditional - Choshi
Dai Fujikura - Rubi(co)n**
Toshi Ichiyanagi - Transfiguration of Flowers II
 
* World Première
** UK Première

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Okeanos returns to Oxford at full strength for this concert combining Japanese and Western classical instruments and music. Dai Fujikura is a Japanese composer who has made England his home, and his music for Okeanos is richly expressive of his roots. Dan Goren is another UK-based composer, and has strong links with Oxford. Choshi, a Japanese traditional piece for solo sho from the Heian Period (794-1185 AD), will be performed with simultaneous recording and delay to give the astonishing effect of hearing three shos simultaneously.