MUDITĀ "第一楽章" (Dai Ichigakushō)
- Workshop for Art Education in Japan
Muditā “Dai Ichigakushō” is the opportunity for Japanese young people to find, explore and realize how art can change and affect the way we live through workshops conducted by guest artists from all over the world. The main purpose of sharing the importance of the opportunity is to allow people to experience an authentic art and art education through our Muditā Experimental Museum, concerts, exhibitions, and performances by the guest artists in addition to the workshops.
Guest Artists
There are six extraordinary young artists whom the member of Muditā have met through their study abroad. They share a common quality: they love art and desire to create their art as a tool to connect with others. These six guest artists will create a gale to Japanese students and their education!
LI KATARINA DAFNA
Pianist（Austria）
Li Katarina Dafna was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1999. She finished her elementary music education in Subotica, Serbia as the top student of her generation. In 2014 she was accepted to the music high-school for talents in Novi Sad, in the class of Olga Borzenko. In 2016 she was invited to study piano at the Anton Bruckner Private university in the class of famous pianist and composer Till Alexander Körber. The following year she began studying music pedagog, both for people with and without special needs.
Since 2009 she won the following awards in national and international competitions:
-International Chopin competition III, IV
-Citta di Gorizia international piano competition II
-international piano competition Vila de Xabia II
-national competition in Šabac II,III
-Serbian national piano competition III
-Serbian national piano competition in the category of four hands I
-concorso musicale internazionale “Citta Di Palmanova” III
She also took part in many more festivals around the world. She has played in masterclasses with:
Oxana Yablonskaya (Julliard)
Sergei Edelman (Royal conservatory Antwerp)
Rita Kinka
Kemal Gekic
Till Alexander Körber
Oleg Marshev
She played solo concerts in various cities in Austria, Estonia and Serbia with pieces from the Barock time until pieces written for her in the 21. Century. Since 2018 aha also works in a music ground school as a piano teacher. She fluently speaks English, Serbian, Hebrew and German.
IVANA RADOVANOVIC
Composer（Austria）
Ivana Radovanovic was born in 1994 in Valjevo, Serbia (100 km west of Belgrade). At the age
of nine she began with musical education in Music school in Valjevo, where she had piano
and solfeggio lessons. Ivana graduated Music Highschool in Valjevo in the study Music
Theory.
Since 2010 Ivana lived in Innsbruck Austria and after one year preparation studies, at the
age of 17 she started studying composition and music theory at Tyrolean Conservatory
(Tiroler Landeskonservatorium) at Franz Baur, from which she graduated in 2015. In 2013
for the first time Ivana attended at Workshop for live electronic music with Johannes Kretz.
In 2017 she started Masters programme in composition at Anton Bruckner Privat University
at Prof. Erland Maria Freudenthaler and electronic music composition programme with Prof. Andreas Weixler.
Her oeuvre includes works for choir, strings, piano, brass, chamber music,
orchestra, live electronics and also stage performances. Her music has been performed in the cities of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Serbia and Australia.
Music is for Ivana like a language, means of expression and for her it is also very important
that every piece has it's own story and is especially based on certain emotions.
In her music she uses often elements from folk music from her motherland, like for example
Balkan music scales and complex rhythms. Besides music she is also interested in foreign languages. She also studied Slawistics, mainly Russian language at the University of Innsbruck (Leopold Franzes Universität).
ELENI ZERVOU
Visual Artist（United Kingdom）
Eleni Zervou was born in Athens in 1994. She has stud- ied at the Athens School of Fine Arts with professors George Lappas and Nikos Charalambides as well as at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul as part of the Erasmus+ exchange. She is currently attending a Masters degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has been a member of the Contempo- rary Art Showcase Athens(C.A.S.A) as well as the performance group “Allopix” since 2015 and has participated in exhibitions and per- formances in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Germany, at various venues including: Benaki Museum -Athens, B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation -Athens, Athens Conservatoire (Doc- umenta14), Fabrica del Vapore in Milan (BC- JEM17), Santral Istanbul, Studio-X Istanbul and Documenta Halle in Kassel(Documenta14).
Between 2014 and 2019 she has worked as a studio assistant for the sculptors Vasilis Papaioannou and Dionisis Kavallieratos. Also, she has worked as a painter at Yapadapadou studio (https://www.yapada- padou.com/index.php/en/).
COLIN FLAUMENHAFT
Theater（United States）
Colin Flaumenhaft is in his second year at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as a theatre major. He has performed around the United States in multiple states as well as in Scotland as a part of the Fringe Festival; at the Fringe Festival, Colin originated the production of “Shakespeare on a Shoestring: Cymbeline!”. Colin has been a part of seven productions at Rollins College, in both technical positions as well as being on stage. He led the handling and management of props for an improv show done on a professional stage, where he was in the position to improvise and adapt to the show as it changed each night. He has also been a part of multiple improvisational troupes, both at Rollins College and separately from the school. Colin has also been able to help under privileged students at younger ages with their theatre programs across the state of Connecticut. Theatre has been a part of his life from a very young age, where through an after-school program at his school he was able to participate in performing art. Through school and classes throughout nearly his entire life, Colin has been able to experience all facets of performance art. He believes that the most important thing about performance art is its ability to connect people. No matter what the stage may be, or what side of the stage you’re on, performance art is one that can create deep connections between people as it will always be centered around the human experience.
ALEX JEFFIRS
Literature（United States）
Alexandra Jeffirs recently graduated from Rollins College in Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a minor in English. In 2015, Alexandra was awarded the English-Speaking Union’s Secondary School Exchange for a year of study of English and music in England. Alexandra has read and presented on works of many major literary figures, including Shakespeare, Austen, Hugo, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Mary Shelley, Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, and Morrison. While her current prospects lie in making music, Alexandra credits her personal development and sense of purpose to the extraordinary experience of literary art.
ALEXANDER ISHIZUKA-HOBBS
Violinist（United States）
Alexander Hobbs just made his Carnegie Hall recital debut in summer 2019. He is the prizewinner of numerous competitions, as well as an active concert performer. Alexander’s competition prizes include Second Prize, the highest award given, at the Osaka International Competition in 2013, Second Prize at the Nationals, Student Music Concours of Japan in 2011, as well as many others. Alexander has appeared as soloist with multiple orchestras including performances with the Japan Classical Orchestra, the NHK Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble, and the Japan String Teachers Association Orchestra. Conductors whom Alexander has worked with include Esa-Pekka Salonen, Ludovic Morlot, Matthias Pintscher, Hans Graff, Paolo Bortolameolli, Edo de Waart, Hugh Wolff, Felix Mildenberger, James Conlon, Robert Spano and Valery Gergiev. Alexander’s solo performances in his native Japan include the concert halls Kioi Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall and Suntory Hall
Alexander was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1997. At the age of three, he enrolled in the Toho School of Music for children where he commenced his formal violin studies at the age of five, under the tutelage of Asako Iwasawa.
At the age of eleven, Alexander earned the honor of serving as concertmaster for a performance of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of the conductor Myung-Whun Chung. The following year, Alexander was chosen to perform at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy, as part of the World Heritage Festival. Alexander has also attended the prestigious Aspen Music Festival for multiple seasons beginning in 2012. Alexander has participated in master classes with several renowned artists and pedagogues, including Andras Keller, Zakhar Bron, Leon Spierer and Augustin Dumay. Alexander has also served as concertmaster of Toho Gakuen Academy Orchestra and YMF Debut Chamber Orchestra.
Alexander is currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he studies with Robert Lipsett, who holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the institution.
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Introducing our volunteers and the special guests for the workshop as Muditā Family!
