Mutsuko Fujii

Mutsuko Fujii is a Japanese music teacher, marimba player, and percussionist.

Fujii studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and teaches marimba and percussion at the Senzoku Gakuen Music College in Kanagawa. She is considered one of the most important marimba players and percussionists in Japan and has also performed successfully internationally in China, the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. She also popularized the sanukitophone , which she has been playing since 1984.

Fujii's particular interest is contemporary Japanese music. She commissioned Akira Miyoshi and Maki Ishii, among others, and gave the world premiere of Miyoshi's Etude Concertante in Carnegie Hall . With the composer and marimba player Keiko Abe she played the world premiere of his Prism Rhapsody II for two marimbas and six percussionists. In addition to her solo work, she performs with the Mutsuko Fujii Percussion Group and in a trio with her daughters Haruka and Rika Fujii . In 2006 her album HITEN-SEIDO: Marimba works by Maki Ishii was released for the composer's 70th birthday.

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• Taiwan Clinic - An International Band and Orchestra Conference - Mutsuko Fujii