Aska Kaneko

Aska Kaneko ( Japanese 金子 飛鳥 , Kaneko Asuka ) is a Japanese violinist and singer.

Aska Kaneko took classical violin and piano lessons from the age of four and won a quartet competition for young musicians in London in 1974. From 1978 she studied at the University of Tokyo and also performed with musicians such as Kenji Sawada . In 1984 she founded the Aska Strings , a thirty-piece string orchestra, and three years later with Satoru Shionoya , Hitoshi Watanabe , Kiyohiko Semba and Techie, the avant-garde band Adi , with whom she recorded four albums by 1994.

In the 1990s she turned to traditional Asian music and founded the Asian Fantasy Orchestra , with which she toured Japan and other Asian countries. With Akira Inoue she founded the Voice Project in 1995 , with which she made herself known as a singer. Since the 1980s she has been increasingly active as a composer. In 1998 she won the Bessie Composition Award with a commissioned work for the choreographer Yoshiko Chuma .

After 2000 published u. a. the solo albums Mother (2002), Betweenness (2004) and Ave (2007). She also became a member of the Argentine-Japanese jazz-tango formation Gaia (2003, with Gerardo Di Giusto , Carlos Buschini and Tomohiro Yahiro ), performed with Japanese jazz pianists such as Makoto Ozone , Satoru Shionoya and Yōsuke Yamashita and took part in multimedia projects.

Discography

• Adi: Home , 1990
• Adi: Adi , 1992
• Adi: Softly , 1992
• Multi Venus , 1992
• Adi: Golconda , 1993
• Mekong Zoo: Minimal Dance , 1995
• Aska Strings: Asphodel , 1995
• Twelve Myths , 1995
• The Voice Project: [Show] , 1998
• Aska Strings: foot prints , 1999
• RHM (with Akira Inoue and Hideo Yamaki ), 1999
• Mother , 2002
• Become a Grateful Memory 3 (with Kaori Takahashi , Ayano Kasahara and Daiki Yasukagawa ), 2004
• Gaia Cuatro: Gaia , 2004
• Betweenness , 2004
• Gaia Cuatro: Udin , 2006
• Ave , 2007
• Gaia Cuatro: Haruka , 2010

Web links

• Homepage of Aska Kaneko

source

• Biography with Gaia Cuatro