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SANAE KANDA, pianist & composer
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| AT A GLANCE |
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| DESCRIPTION: Pianist performing original music and select pieces from the standard repertoire. Numerous audience-friendly compositions. |
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| INSTRUMENTATION: Solo Piano and Collaborative Artist |
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| SCHOOL PROGRAMS / RESIDENCIES: Yes |
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| CLINICS / MASTERCLASSES: Yes |
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| ABOUT |
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Sanae Kanda enjoys a varied career as not only a pianist but also as a composer, arranger and educator. As a pianist, Dr. Kanda has given recitals in the United States and Japan. She has accompanied vocalists, strings, woodwinds and brass in a variety of styles and genres. She is a member of Keys and Brass, an active performing group, and in the spring of 2005 joined the Young Opera Company of New England.
As an educator, Dr. Kanda instructs all levels from beginner through professional and has taught in Japan, as well as in the United States. Currently she is a faculty member at Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts and Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rounding out all of these areas, Dr. Kanda is also a composer and arranger. She has written numerous solo works for tuba and piano, euphonium and piano, trombone quartet, tuba quartet and is the exclusive writer for the Innovata Brass - whose concerts are based around Dr. Kanda's music. Her first work for brass "Karen" was written for Karen Antonio-Muenzinger and the Innovata Brass. It was released on the first CD recording of the Innovata Brass titled "Brass a la carte" by Stillwater Digital.
A native of Kyoto, Japan, Dr. Kanda studied music in both Japan and the United States. She holds a Masters degree in Piano Performance and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative Piano Performance from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Where (NEW!)
(brass quintet)
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When (NEW!)
(tuba/euphonium quartet)
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| RECENT REVIEW |
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August 6, 2009
Trios and quintets top rate in Chamber and Vesper series
Categories: Concert Reviews, Festblog, Music, Musikfest
By Philip A. Metzger
Special to The Morning Call
Bethlehem, PA
INNOVATA
Brass again, this time in the more intimate confines of the Old Chapel. Innovata Brass, a quintet of two trumpets, trombone, french horn, and tuba, is based in Boston, and has appeared at Musikfest before. This group has its own composer, Sandae Kanda, who also happens to be married to the quintet's quite remarkable tuba player. In the Wednesday Chamber Series concert, the quintet played a set of her music, which proved to be listenably tuneful, with a harmonic base in pop and movie music. I found her use of pulsating notes on the tuba in the piece called "On a Beautiful Winter Day" an effective and imaginative transition device between sections.
The quintet also played, among the other pieces, a spirited William Tell (i.e. Lone Ranger) Overture, music by Bach originally for organ, selections from Handel's Royal Fireworks and Renaissance dances by Tielman Susato. Towards the end of the concert, the tuba player mentioned that the legendary Fats Waller was, in addition to his blues piano playing, also a tubaist. He then proceeded to sashay up and down the aisle playing an unaccompanied blowsy "Black and Blue" by Waller. In the process he brought forth sounds from his instrument that made me think there must be such a thing as a castrato tuba. But no, it was just a really fine player showing that his instrument was capable of far more than one realizes.
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| ARTIST WEBSITE |
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| www.sanaekanda.com |
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