From 28th October till 5th November 2007:
creation in Osaka, Mitoya, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo.
> Cristel De Meulder (soprano)
> Shigeo Akieda (reciter)
> Bob Van de Velde (clarinet & basset horn)
> Ruben Vanden Broucke (percussion)
> Gwendolyn Sommereyns (composer)
> Dirk Engels (manager)
> Suzanne Akieda (organizer)
More about 'Kayano' composition and report of the tour.

Poster announcing the concert 'Elegy for Kayano'

Statue of dr. Takashi Nagai, father of Kayano,
in the Takashi Nagai Memorial Museum in Nagasaki

Dirk Engels, Gwendolyn Sommereyns and Shigeo Akieda in front of 'Nyokodo', the 'As Yourself Hermitage'. Build by Takashi Nagai on the old ruins of his bombed house in Nagasaki, with an area of only two tatami mats, the name of his lodge refers to the Christian maxim 'Love others as you love yourself'.

Visiting ancient Japan, Matsue Castle ...

... and Japan today, Osaka by night

Visit and dinner at the Minedera Temple on the mountains of Mitoya

Sound check before concert in Osaka, Shin Ai Chapel, 28th October 2007

Hiroshima Cathedral, concert 31st October 2007

Nagasaki, Atomic Bomb Museum, concert 3rd November 2007

concert in Tokyo Cathedral, 4th November 2007

concert in Junshin School, Tokyo, 5th November 2007

Koto recital by students of the Junshin School in Tokyo, 5th November 2007,
and Gwendolyn trying out the koto afterwards

Leaving Japan, back to Belgium ...