"Word is Music, Music is Word" Vol. 5, Produced by Naomi Matsui
J. S. Bach: Das Musikalisches Opfer, BWV1079

Naomi Matsui graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, where she also completed a master’s program. She continued her studies at the Freiburg State University of Music where she obtained her Konzertexamen with highest distinction. She has won first prize in various national and international competitions, including the 2nd Japan Organ Competition and the 21st Budapest International Competition. She gives recitals regularly in Japan, Europe, and Asia, and has been actively involved in performing with major orchestras worldwide. Her eight-year project “J.S. Bach: Complete Works for Organ,” which began in 2014 at Musashino Civic Cultural Hall and has just concluded in 2022, has received rave reviews. Currently, she serves as organ advisor and instructor at Musashino Civic Cultural Hall, as well as at MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall. She is professor emerita at Seitoku University.

Liliko Maeda graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music Period instrument cours. She conticuned her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag, where she completed a master's program. She was won first prize in International Competition for Early Music YAMANASHI and second prize in MA Competition. She play with various early music ensembles, include Bach Collegium Japan. She studied under Shinya Koide, Masahiro Arita, and Barthold Kuiken. She is lecturer atTokyo University of the Arts.

Ryo Terakado studied under Sigiswald Kuijken. He has served as concertmaster of several original instrument ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande, and Bach Collegium Japan. He has conducted numerous baroque operas at the Hoku-Topia International Music Festival. Currently he is teaching at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag and Toho Gakuen School of Music.

She graduated at the top of her class from the Ueno Gakuen School and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. She studied viola da gamba under Toshinari Ohashi and Wieland Kuijken. She is based in Belgium, France and the Netherlands. she released her solo CD "Yu" in 2021. She is lecturer at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Mayako Sone won the first prize in Bruges International Harpsichord Competition (1986). She studied under the late Scott Ross. She released many CDs from Avex Classics. In 1996, she was the first harpsichordist to receive the 6th Idemitsu Music Award. Mayako Sone Official Web Site (Japanese only)

Sara Mangano and Pierre-Yves Massip met in 1994 at the Marcel Marceau school of Mime and ever since then they have chosen to explore together the vast world of their imagination. For over fifteen years, they have worked as a duo to shape a gestural and visual theatre where the body is both the tool and the goal. "We work with the drama of movement that can echo our everyday lives with all its little ups and downs as well as take us on an epic lyrical journey into our thoughts".

A poetic and popular theatre that whilst rooted in the grammar of mime desires to enrich itself with the vocabulary of other new theatrical styles.

They are very attached to the idea of transmitting their art, and their teaching is based on the understanding and use of the three major mime techniques: Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq. They strive for the recognition of the Art of Mime in the theatrical world and the eyes of the general public. They have created many projects with this goal in mind, notably: Mim’Provisation and Mimesis.