The koto is a Japanese zither that generates spine-tingling timbres (in the right hands), vibrating lushly between a guitar and a harp. Played by a master such as Laraaji, they can produce some of ...

Award-winning performer-composer-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s Stanford Live “Harps of Asia” concerts with three renowned Asian zither masters ... the Japanese koto and Winnie ...

Record labels didn’t know what to do with Hiroshima. The band, led by Japanese American Boyle Heights native Dan Kuramoto, defied simple categorization. It featured Japanese instruments like ...

and Miki Maruta (koto - zither). The program also includes the captivating voice of Mongolia's urtiin duu (long song) vocalist Khongorzul Ganbaatar, a featured artist in Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project.

With Stockhausen, Cage and Boulez falling in love with the sho mouth organ and the koto zither, it was largely Occidentals who kept this Oriental flame alive. The Japanese came to Kings Place to ...

The shakuhachi flute is a Buddhist instrument that brings enlightenment. The koto zither was much loved among the ancient aristocracy. The guitar-like shamisen entertains banquet guests in the ...

His chamber group Okeanos – combining Western instruments with the Japanese koto zither and sho mouth-organ - would collide with a video plus film-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto doing his pianistic ...

A stunning performance of Miyagi's "Haru No Umi" ("The Sea in Springtime") drew French innuendoes into the mellow sonic context of its original setting for Japanese koto (zither) and shakuhachi ...

Although the Vietnamese Zither, Chinese Guzheng, Japanese Koto, and Korean Kayagum look very much alike, a number of differences can be noted. Teacher Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, who has taught zither at the ...