Makoto Hasegawa
Настоящее имя: Makoto Hasegawa
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He studied koto from the age of nine and shamisen from the age of fourteen. In 1986 he began studying under 安藤政輝 (Masateru Ando)/ In 1994 he graduated from Gedai and went on to study music education. He acquired his diploma in musocology in 1997. He was a prize winer at the 33rd Miyagi Association koto competition in 1998. His gifts for talking and lecturing about music and supplying programme notes are frequetnly called upon, and he has taken an energetic part in the diffusion of Japanese culture abroad, particularly in Germany, and Ivory Coast, Australia, and Nepal (where he performed for the Royal Family). He performs and teachers imn the disctricts of Kakamigahara, Gifu and Yamato-shi in Kanagawa. He is a member of many prominent Hogaku (Japanese traditional music) associations, and leads the Makoto-koto concert group.