Naomi Sato

Bio

Naomi studied the Sho (Japanese traditional mouth organ) with Ko Ishikawa at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, While studying the Saxophone as major subject. She has collaborated with many composers and Ensembles all over the world. Since 2004 She is the sho player in Atlas Ensemble (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and giving workshops in Atlas Academy.

She performed with Ives Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, (Netherlands), Diotima Quartet, Ensemble Cairn (France), Fontana Mix Ensemble, Xenia Ensemble (Italy), Ictus Ensemble, B’Rock(Belgium), PHACE (Austria), Ensemble Resonanz (Germany), Shonorities (UK/Greece), Prague Modern (Czech), New Music Network Philadelphia, N-JP project (US), Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra and Orchestra Metropolitain(Canada).

She was invited to the music Festivals like Estovest Festival (2014 in Italy), MA Festival(2015 in Belgium) Ars Musica (2016 in Belgium), Royaumont Festival (2017 and 2020 in France), Nasimi Festival (2018 in Azerbaijan).

Also participating the music theater productions “Rette Uns, Okich” (production of Neuköllner Oper in Berlin 2017 and rerun in 2018), “Koerikoeloem” (production of Gaudeamus muziekweek in Utrecht 2017-2019), “De Yoshi and Musek vum Wind” (production of the Philharmonie Luxembourg in 2018), “The Key” (Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London 2019).

She has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts in Japan, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Greece, America, Canada and Australia with member of her chamber music grope Duo X Project, Japanese traditional instrument trio KODAMA(Sho+Shakuhachi+Koto) and Pochan (sho + percussion) and so on.

She gave lecture concerts about ‘Contemporary music scene through Japanese traditional music’ in Conservatorium van Amsterdam(2000), North Eastern University (2005), UM Dartmouth (2005), University Melbourne (2006), UC Davis (2009)　and Istanbul Bilgi University (2010). She gave composers workshops in University of New Mexico, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Brigham Young University (2013), University of British Columbia and University of Victoria(2014).