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The new single by Ria Ideta, a Japanese marimba player living in Germany who is currently the most "sought-after" marimba player in the world, is a cover music consisting of the main theme and love theme from the movie "New Cinema Paradise". Rie Ideta, who has been playing this rare instrument since she was six years old, is deeply devoted to her pursuit. As she says, "Marimba is a percussion instrument, but it is also a singing instrument," her delicate and gentle sound instantly moves the audience. The sound of the marimba is a common part of our daily lives, such as ringtones and background music, and we hope that you will take the time to listen carefully and lose yourself in the warmth of the wood and the pleasantly fluctuating sound. Expectations are high for Ria Ideta's free ideas and possibilities that are not limited to any musical genre.

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New Cinema Paradise

iTunes Store • Instrumental TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 8 • 2 Jul 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Mongolia • TOP 91 • 26 Oct 2023

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  • Ria Ideta

    It is rare to find a marimba player in the world who pursues the possibilities of this instrument so deeply. When you listen to her delicate and pleasantly fluctuating tremolo, the concept of the marimba as a percussion instrument is instantly overturned. She is the most sought-after marimba player in the world today, captivating audiences with her versatile expressiveness and flexible playing technique, and creating a genre-independent repertoire with her skillful arranging abilities. Ria began playing marimba and piano at the age of 6 in her hometown of Kumamoto, Japan, and has been arranging music since her childhood based on her special talent of being able to play without sheet music once she hears it. 18 years old, she moved to Paris, France to study at the Paris Conservatoire (CNR), and promptly won first prize at the 1st International Marimba Competition in Paris in 2003. She has performed at some of the most prestigious chamber music festivals in the world, unprecedented for a marimba player, including the Bürgenstock Festival (Switzerland), Rolandseck International Music Festival (Germany), Zagreb International Music Festival (Croatia), Salon-de-Provence International Chamber Music Festival (France), Evermay Chamber Music Project (USA), and Pharos International Chamber Music Festival (Cyprus), performing with Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Andreas Ottensamer, François Leleux, Eric Le Sage, Yu Kosuge, Guy Braunstein, Daishin Kashimoto, Boris Brovtsyn, Nabil Shehata and others. In Japan, together with guitarist Kaori Muraji, Ria has created many new duo repertoire of guitar and marimba. Since 2012, Ria Ideta has been a resident artist of the Munich Chamber Opera(KOM), performing various operas with the world's first chamber orchestra including marimba, which has been attracting much attention in various places. Ria is also actively involved in commissioning activities, and has been involved in the world premieres of many works - marimba concerto "SUGARIA" by Eric Sammut(2007, France), marimba concerto by Ohad Ben-Ari with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Kazuki Yamada (2014, Japan), and "Sawasawa" for marimba and choir by Dai Fujikura with the Polish Radio Choir at the Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival (2017, UK). Ria has studied with Yoshihisa Mizuno, Emmanuel Séjourné, and Eric Sammut. Ria Ideta is a visiting professor at the Heisei College of Music(Japan) and the London Academy of Arts (UK), living in Berlin.

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