Etsuko Hirose (piano)

After winning prizes at both the Viotti and Munich International Competitions, she won the Martha Argerich International Competition in 1999. In the same year, she graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris with unanimous top honors from the jury and also won the Daniel Magne Prize. She has performed in recitals and at music festivals around the world, and has collaborated with many orchestras both in Japan and abroad, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dutoit and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has released many CDs, which have been highly praised, including being selected as special albums by the magazine Record Geijutsu. Her latest release is Scheherazade, which includes her own solo piano arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade. She is highly regarded for her passionate, large-scale music-making, beautiful tone, and wide repertoire.

Karin Ito (Sand Art)

He is skilled at live performances set to music that make use of his experience in ballet since childhood, and has performed both in Japan and abroad. He has created many original works that incorporate the hand expressions he has cultivated through ballet and scene development that makes use of sand. He has also collaborated with various artists at live performances, including Megumi Hayashibara and Disney on Classic. He has performed sand art performances in front of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko. In the video field, he has produced music videos for artists such as TVXQ and Kazuyoshi Saito. In recent years, he has worked on illustrations, including the cover art for Michio Hidesuke's "Fujin no Te" (The Hand of the Wind God), as well as illustrations for magazines and picture books.

Tanaka Lab (reading)

Graduated from the Vocal Music Department of the Faculty of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. Currently active as a member of the chorus group "Ensemble Konoha", she has released the CDs "100 Selected Famous Songs That Bloom in the Heart", "Hometown Morning", "Bouquet of Melodies", "I'm Back", as well as the NPB official song "Dream Park - Let's Go to the Baseball Stadium". She has appeared on radio shows and in numerous concerts. Making use of her beautiful voice and speaking skills, she is active mainly as a voice actress, narrating commercials, and hosting school tours and orchestra performances organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Recently, she has also expanded her field of activities to include playing instruments, arranging music, and drawing illustrations, and creating and distributing video works that utilize her multifaceted talents.

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