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Motoshi Kosako

His latest music innovation is improvisation and composition for
the harp. In 2007 he won the second place in Lyon & Healy
International Jazz & Pop Harp Competition and received the
"Best of Sacramento" award from Sacramento Magazine as "Best
Jazz Hound in Tie and Tail". Sacramento Magazine says, "Kosako
plays with fluid, modern style that evokes Keith Jarrett and Chick
Corea." His groundbreaking style is also noted in Harp Column as
"Motoshi Kosako, a Japanese native whose introspective
soloing was reminiscent of Keith Jarrett." He plays numerous
original compositions and standards as solo or in trio and quartet.
Since 2008 he started touring Japan to give performances and various workshops and he is considered as the most
influential Jazz harpist in Japan.
In 2002 and 2003, he recorded two classical harp albums, "Celestial Harp I" and "Celestial Harp II". In April
2008, he has released his first Jazz Album, "Naked Wonder" with his trio, Bill Douglass (bass, bamboo flute) and
Daryl Van Druff (drums). In 2010 he has released his solo album "Living harp" in Japan and produced new album
" Place in the heart" with Grammy ward winning musician, Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn, soprano sax,
bass clarinet) and made their record debut in Japan distributed by KING RECORDS INTERNATIONAL. He is
invited to perform at VIII Rio Harp Festival in Rio de Janeiro, brazil, American Harp Society National
Conference 2014 in New Orleans and World Harp Congress, Sydney 2014.
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