About
Classical flutist and performer of traditional Japanese music, Nozomi Kanda is a versatile musician specializing in chamber music and recitals, with a marked expertise in contemporary interpretation. A graduate in traditional Japanese music, she also masters the shinobue, a Japanese flute that she incorporates into contemporary works.
She has performed at prestigious festivals and venues in Belgium (Flagey, MIM, Festival des Midi-Minimes, Ars Musica, Festival Mozart, Brussels City Hall), as well as in France, Norway, Luxembourg, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Tunisia, and Japan. Notable venues include the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama and the Tokyo Opera City Hall. In chamber music, she has collaborated with renowned artists such as Marc Grauwels, Kohei Nishikawa, Pascal Moragues, Francis Orval, Tatiana Samouïl, Werner Bärtschi, and Alexander Dmitriev.
Studied with Akane Takahashi, Yasukazu Uemura, and Yukihiko Nishizawa at Ferris University in Yokohama, and later by Marc Grauwels in Belgium, Nozomi Kanda further studied under the guidance of Vincent Lucas and Vincent Cortvrint.
Influenced by Yukihiko Nishizawa, a specialist in contemporary Japanese music and admirer of Toru Takemitsu, Nozomi Kanda is dedicated to promoting the contemporary repertoire for the transverse flute and shinobue. She was trained by Kohei Nishikawa, a leading figure in contemporary Japanese music, and Rio Tosha, a specialist in traditional music. She regularly performs in concerts that blend Japanese and European instruments.
She has commissioned and premiered several works by renowned composers, including Nicolas Bacri, David Loeb, and Jan Freidlin, with some premieres being world or Asian firsts. Her work has been praised in the international press, and she was invited as a commentator on Musiq’3 during the Ars Musica Festival 2018 in Brussels.
Her discography includes *4 Reasons* (EHK) with the flute quartet "4 Tempi," featuring a creation by Trygve Madsen, *Early 20th Century Jewels* (Dux) with Didier Poskin, Koenrad Hofman, Daniel Rubenstein, and Ingrid Procureur, an album with the Tokyo-Brussels Trio, as well as *Sky Echo*, dedicated to traditional and contemporary Japanese music, performed on traditional instruments and transverse flute.
An active pedagogue, Nozomi Kanda regularly teaches courses, seminars, and workshops in Belgium, France, Norway, and Japan. This year, she will inaugurate the first shinobue class in France, at the Conservatoire du Kremlin-Bicêtre in Paris.
Chamber Music
As a chamber musician, Nozomi performed as a member of Tokyo-Bruxelles Trio, Estampes, 4tempi and together with a broad range of artists, including her ex-professeur Marc Grauwels, Pascal Moraguès, Francis Orval, Sylvain Creemers, as well as Didier Poskin, Alexander Dmitriev, Koenraad Hofman and many others in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Tunisie.... and Japan.
Chamber Music
Chamber Music
Martinu - Trio for flute, cello and piano マルティヌ フルート、チェロとピアノのための三重奏曲
Freidlin - Music of the Passing Summer - performed by Estampes
Concertino for Flute, Viola & Double Bass: II. Furiant
Japanese music
Japanese music programs are varied from traditional music to contemporary music,
Nozomi Kanda often performs Japanese music, both Traditional and Classical contemporary, both on classical flute and Japanese flute, not only on the Japanese flute with traditional instruments and also with western classical instruments.
In contemporary music, she emphasis works by contemporary Japanese composers to promote music of her own culture in Western countries.
In more popular events, she performs folks music, also in her own arrangements, equally on classical flute and on shinobue.
Traditional Classic music
Japanese classic music
Japanese classic music
Haru no umi - koto and shinobue
Chidori no Kyoku for koto and shinobue
Tsuru no sugomori - Nesting of Cranes for flute arr. Will Offermans
Folksongs & popular music
Shinobue folksongs & popular music
Shinobue folksongs & popular music
Sakura sakura koto & shinobue
【Shinobue Duo】KOJO no Tsuki
童神 篠笛＆箏
Contemporary Music
Her objectiv are to bring out the contemporary music written by Japanese composers to her two instruments, but also to create a new repertoire for the shinobue and to develop the possibilities of this instrument by collaborating with contemporary composers. In this way, Nozomi Kanda participates not only in the discovery and enhancement of Japanese music and its philosophy, but also in merging with European music to create a new style.
For Japanese instruments
Contemporary Music for Japanese instruments
Contemporary Music for Japanese instruments
「伝説集」(Legends) for Shinobue & Piano / David Loeb
Meikyo for shinobue & sangen (shamisen)
生調 -篠笛独奏 / David Loeb 作曲
For classical music instruments
Contemporary music
Contemporary music
Kadha Karuna / Kazuo Fukushima
Mei for flute solo / comp. Kazuo Fukushima
Reflets pour flûte, violoncelle et piano 反映（委嘱作品）
Kids Concert
She conducts concerts for children to help them discover different style of music, classical and Japanese. Among them, she participated in a kamishibai.
The kamishibai
"The kamishibai (literally it means « piece of theater on the paper ») is a Japanese narrative style, a kind of street theater where artists tell stories by showing pictures to the audience.