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Motoshi Kosako blues harp performance

Born in Matsuyama City, Japan, MOTOSHI KOSAKO started his musical training on the piano then the guitar. While in university in Tokyo he played the acoustic and electric guitar in professional Jazz bands and the Swing Journal magazine described him as “one of the most remarkable young Jazz musicians.” In 1997, Mr. Kosako moved to the United States, soon after he started playing the harp. He is primarily self- taught with a few lessons to learn fundamental harp technique. He was the principal harpist of Stockton Symphony Orchestra in California between 2005-2010 and the featured soloist for 2009-2010 season for Mozart’s harp concerto. In 2007 he won second place in Lyon & Healy International Jazz & Pop Harp Competition performing his own composition and received the “Best of Sacramento” award from Sacramento Magazine as “Best Jazz Hound in Tie and Tail”. He plays numerous original compositions for TV commercials, TV programs, films, applications (apps), as well as performing both improvised and written music live with actors, and presentations, as solo and various ensemble formats including amazing jazz musicians such as Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn, soprano sax, bass clarinet), Michael Manring (fretless electric bass), Bill Douglass(bass). In 2008 he began touring Japan, giving performances and various workshops. He is considered one of the most influential Jazz harpists both in the U.S. and Japan. This project is supported by grants from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, Louisiana Division of the Arts Project Grants, as administered by the St. Tammany Commission on Cultural Affairs and the Arts Council of New Orleans, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts. It is produced by the North Shore and New Orleans Chapters of the American Harp Society.