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The acoustic composition of shakuhachi, trumpet, and piano depicts a scene of cherry petals falling in the spring rain. A musical piece by Riho Akiyama, a trumpet player who works on the theme of Japanese fantasy.

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  • Riho Akiyama

    Riho AKiyama (Trumpeter, composer, arranger, andfashion model) Born in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, she started playing the piano at the age of three. After entering Kita-Kamakura Girls' High School, she majored in trumpet at the music department. After graduating from the high school, she traveled around Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Seville and Malmö, then she started the work as a trumpeter in Berlin, focusing on classical music. When having lived in Berlin, she always wore kimono (Japanese traditional clothing), and served as a fashion model for one of the kimono brand as well. After 3 years have passed in Berlin, she came back to Japan and started learning the various genres/types of trumpet performance method under Master YOKAN, who is a very famous and multi-wind-instrument-player in Japan. While participating in top artists' recordings, live performances, shooting for TV programs and music videos, she also describe herself as a "Japanese Fantastic Trumpeter'', and keep composing the fantastic music about the old and new Japanese tradition to deliver the dream and hope to the world with her music. Recently she's been working mainly in the following field; -Horn-arrangements of the music for 2.5-dimensional stage/theater, -Creating the composite art containing music, dance and theatrical elements -Live performance -Teaching Trumpet The number of her pupil has reached over 100 persons all over Japan. (Recently she's started teaching trumpet online, too)

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