2007
January 1st
Seifuuen with HISTRAD
January 2nd
Takagi Asty with TOKARA
January 3rd
Keizan with TOKARA
January 13th, 14th
Tokyo Dome, Kansai Yamamoto Super Show Performance
January 17 - February 7th
Australia, Tasmania - Teaching Residency
February 10th, 11th
Hokkaido, Anniversary Performance with Shimafukuro
February 16th
Zenkoji Temple Performance with HISTRAD
April 8th
Tokyo Hilton, EcoPrime Anniversary with
TOKARA
April 13th - 15th
Santa Fe, New Mexico - Workshops to Smokin
Bachi Taiko and Performance
April 17th, 18th
Sarasota, Florida - Van Wezel Theater -
Ragamala and TOKARA
April 28th
Connecticut
- Workshop
to UConn Taiko
April 29th
Connecticut
- Workshop
to Otatsu Taiko
May 4th - 13th
New York - New Victory Theater
Ragamala, Shubendra Rao, Toni Pierce-Sands,
Durjay Bhaumik, TOKARA
May 14th
Connecticut - Workshop to Otatsu Taiko
May 17th
Minneapolis - Workshop to Mu Daiko
May 18th
Minneapolis - Soo Visual Arts Center, TOKARA
Performance
Ragamala Gala
June 10th
Saitama-ken, Kuki City performance
June 16th - 29th
INADANI Taiko Drumming Course - Grand Tour
June 30th
Art Lee Solo Concert - KAGIRI
Iida-city, Ningyo Gekijyo
July 28th
Art Lee Solo Concert - KAGIRI
Gunma-ken, Midori City
July 31st
Shiobara Ryo Concert Performance with TOKARA
August 1st - 30th
TOKARA Showcase - Hirugami no Hibiki
Hirugami Onsen Yagai Stage
August 11th
Festival Iida Performance with TOKARA
August 14th
Achi Village Obon Matsuri Performance with TOKARA
August 15th
Ajima Matsuri Performance with Osuwa Daiko
August 16th
Igari Natsu Matsuri Performance with TOKARA
August 18th
Workshop at Nagoya Kita Bunka Theater
August 24th
Tokyo Kenbunroku Performance with Osuwa Daiko
September 1st
Art Lee and Ensemble Rivelta Joint Concert
Nagoya Geijutsu Souzou Center
September 2nd
Santogatousai Performance with TOKARA
September 7th
Art Lee Concert - KAGIRI with TOKARA and Ragamala Dance
Nagoya Kita Bunka Theater
September 15, 16th
2nd Annual Saiwai Shimoina Wadaiko Festival
Iida City Community Center
October 5th
Festival of the Arts - Ragamala and TOKARA
Port Angeles, Washington
October 7th
Pantages Theater Concert - Ragamala and TOKARA
Tacoma, Washington
October 9th
Showcase - Ragamala and TOKARA
Tacoma, Washington
October 13th
Achi Village Matsuri with Koihime Daiko
October 20th
Canvas Concert with HISTRAD
October 27th
Concert Collaboration with Otsuki Katsuhiko (piano)
October 28th
Kekkonshiki Ensou
November 11th
Kekkonshiki Ensou
Takagi Matsuri performance by Suiko
November 24th
Iida City's 70th Anniversary performance with TOKARA
November 25th
Iida Kokusai Kouryuu performance with TOKARA
December 1st
Achi Village Kokusai Kouryuu performance with Koihime Daiko, TOKARA
2006
January
12th - February 15th
Tasmania, Australia - Workshops and Concerts
March 19th
Special Guest Performance for Dance Group
Inazawa City
April 22nd
Performance at Yamabiko March with Tento
April 23rd
Performance at Yamabiko March with TOKARA
May 3rd
Guest with Kuwabara Band, Neba Mura
May 17th
Histrad at Canvas
May 18th
Hiraya Kindergarten and Elementary/Junior
High School TOKARA Performance
May 28th
Owase Bushi Event, TOKARA Guest Performance
May 31st
Solo Performance, Hirugami Onsen Tenshin
June 5th
Histrad Performance, Hirugami Onsen Hanaya
June 10th
Art Lee First CD Tour - Inazawa Shimin Kaikan
Concert
June 11th
Achi Kokusai Kouryuu Performance
June 17th
Solo Performance, Hirugami Onsen Seifuuen
June 19 - 24th
INADANI Taiko Drumming Course
June 24th
Art Lee First CD Tour - Iida Bunka Kaikan
Ningyou Gekijyo
July 9th
TOKARA Mini Concert - with Tento and Koihime
Daiko
July 23th
TOKARA at Takayama Matsuri no Mori Wadaiko
Festival
August 4th
Iida Ringon Matsuri Solo Performance
August 14th
Hiraya Village Chin-Chin-Bakufu Matsuri
August 15th
Ajima Matsuri Performance with Osuwa Daiko
August 29th
Solo Odaiko Performance at Tokyo Aoyama
Gekijyo - Aoyama Taiko Kenbunroku
September 1st
Mitsubo Kindergarten
September 8th
Hirugami Onsen Hanaya
September 25th
Teaching Achi Daiichi Shogakkou (elementary school)
October 7th
Iida Kekkonshiki Performance
October 10th
Teaching Achi Daiichi Shogakkou
October 14th
Histrad Concert in Kamimura
October 21st
Collaboration concert with Otsuki Katsuhiko -
piano
October 22nd
1st Annual Saiwai Shimoina Wadaiko Festival Concert
October 24th
Teaching Achi Daiichi Shogakkou
October 27th
TOKARA at Top Hills, Iida
October 29th
TOKARA in the Takayama Wadaiko Festival
November 6th - 13th
TOKARA Tour in Taiwan
November 19th
TOKARA at Takagi Festival
November 22nd
Performance at Kefir-Agri Opening
November 23rd
Concert in Kanie-cho
November 30th
Teaching Achi Daiichi Shogakkou
December 8th - 18th
Collaboration on creating new piece called
"Sva" with Ragamala
2005
February 5th
- Omachi Snow Festival - TOKARA
February 12th
- TOKARA "Toward the Undiscovered Country" Iida
Concert
February 26th
- TOKARA "Toward the Undiscovered Country" Nagoya
Concert
One
Year Anniversary
April 5th `June
2nd - TOKARA North America Tour
June 10th -
Japan Expo Solo Performance
June 19th -
TOKARA, Mie-ken Owase City Performance
July 14th and
21st - Iida FM Radio
July 17th -
Iida Music Festival Solo Performance
August 5th -
Iida Central Park Solo Performance
August 13th
- Nagano Television Solo Performance
August 15th
- Chiyo Summer Festival Solo Performance
September 4th
- Santogattousai
September 17th
- 2005 International Festival Concert
Inazawa Shimin Kaikan with Katsumi Otsuka, Abdoulaye Sankon,
etc.
October 14th
- Guest performer with Katsuhiko Otsuki in Iijima
October
15th - Art Lee wins First Place in the Tokyo International
Wadaiko Contest
Odaiko
Section
October 22nd
- Art Lee Solo Concert - Winter's Echo (Fuyu no Kodama)
With
guests, Rivelta Ensemble
October 23rd - Performance at Sonohara Ceremony, Hiezan Fire
brought from Kyoto to Sonohara
November 2nd
` 14th - TOKARA as Japan Representatives at
World Drum and Dance Festival in Taipei City
sponsored
by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi and created by IOV Taiwan
December 3rd - Solo Performance at Owase Port
2004
-
February 28th - EXISTENSION concert with
Katsumi Otsuka, Kiyoka and Art Lee Wadaiko Ensemble
March 7th -
Official beginning of TOKARA
April 6th -
May 16, TOKARA U.S. and Canada Concert Tour
May 30th - Hiroshima
Solo Concert
July 16, 17th
- Guest Performer with Grandmaster Daihachi Oguchi
and Osuwa Daiko in 1st U.K. Taiko Festival.
July 19th -
RhythmSticks Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Guest Performer with Grandmaster Daihachi Oguchi
August 14th
- Seoul, Korea performance with Noripan
September 22nd
- Performance at Hamamatsu Hamanako
September 26th
- Solo Concert in Iida Silk Plaza
October 3rd
- Tokyo, Roppongi: TOKARA and Akaonidaiko
October 5th
- Recording with Hibiki Inamoto for Elizabeth Rex, Play and
CD.
October 28th
- November 1st - Taiwan, Taipei City's 120th Anniversary
World
Music Festival
November 2nd
- Tokyo Aoyama Gekijyo, All-Stars of Wadaiko concert
Odaiko
- with Daihachi Oguchi and Osuwa Daiko Ashura-Gumi
November 14th
- Inadani Geijutsu Festival - TOKARA and Koihime Daiko
November 21st
- Iida J.A. Festival - TOKARA
November 27th
- Saitama-ken, Kuki City Solo Concert
December 2nd
- Fudoh Onsen Solo Performance
December 11th
- Iida Canvas LiveHouse Solo Performance
1993 - Art Lee began
the study of Wadaiko with the Sacramento Taiko Dan.
1994
- Invited by Ondekoza to become a member for the remainder
of their U.S. and Canada tour, and to join them in their full
1994 Japan Tour sponsored by Japan Art Corporation, culminating
at Carnegie Hall in New York.
1996
- Germany Tour, First Europe International Taiko Festival
with the Sacramento Taiko Dan.
1997
- Becomes one of the Sacramento Taiko Dan's assistant instructors.
1998
- Moves to Japan. Becomes instructor for Koihime Daiko. Continues
to
compose music for productions in Japan, including Taiko Jamboree's,
concerts and musicals.
2000
- Creates and produces the annual "International Powerful
Stage" in Achi
Village. Produces the first ever Sacramento Taiko Dan Japan
Tour.
2001 - In November
14th, 2001, Art Lee became the first person in the world to
obtain authorization to acquire an artist visa from the Japanese
Government in order to teach, produce concerts and lead the
life of a Professional Wadaiko Artist in Japan.
2002
- Produces the second Sacramento Taiko Dan Japan Tour.
Produces and
composes music for two charity concerts for Go-M.A.D. , a
charity organization. All profits were used to aid landless
refugees in Nepal.
Requested by
Grandmaster Oguchi Daihachi to arrange one of the world's
most well-known wadaiko pieces, "Hiryu Sandan Gaeshi"
for performance in the 2002 Beijing World Music Festival.
Tokubetsu Prize
in the All-Japan Odaiko Competition.
2003
- Shime-daiko workshops in U.S.
Winter Workshops
and Performance in England.
May 25th - Art
Lee Debut Concert - EXISTENSION
Summer - Two
month project as co-artistic director, teacher and performer
with Kagemusha Taiko in England.
Composed music
for and performance in the Ina Arts Festival.
Odaiko Solo
at the Nissin City Wadaiko/Geinou Festival.
Workshop leader
and Performer at the North American Taiko Conference.
Finalist in
the Tokyo International Odaiko Competition.
October 25,
26: NHK World/BS1F"What's on Japan" Broadcast in
180 countries.
@@@ Program Name - 'In Person'
~American Professional Wadaiko Player,
Art Lee's Challenge~
Inazawa Shimin
Kaikan - Wadaiko Geinou Matsuri, Main Guest Performer.
December 23:
NHK: "Wadaiko ni Kakeru; Amerikajin Puro Sousha"
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