Past Activities in America

June 1982
Inauguration of the Kitanodai Gagaku Orchestra ("Kitanodai Gagaku Kenkyukai")

February 1998
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)

March 1998
Concert & Workshop (Hunter College of the City University of New York)
Concert (Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA)

March 1999
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)

November 1999
Workshop (Hunter College of the City University of New York)

April 2001
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)

February 2002
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)

October 2002
Concert (Karuna Center, Northampton, MA)
Concert (Regional High School, Buckland, MA)
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)
Workshop (Fort River Elementary School, Amherst, MA)

December 2002
Workshop (Swift River Elementary School, New Salem, MA)

February 2003
Workshop (University of Massachusetts)

March 2003
Workshop (Showa Boston, MA)
Workshop (Mount Holyoke College, South Hudley, MA)

December 2005
renamed to Kitanodai Gagaku Kai

October 2006
Workshop (Hampshire College, Amherst, MA)

April 2008
Concert in the USA

Concert (University of Massachusetts)
Concert (Wistariahurst Museum, Holyork, MA)
Concert (Amherst Japanese Language School, South Hadley, MA)

July 2011
Commencement of a general incorporated association Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble

April 2012
Concerts for The Japan - U.S. Cherry Blossom Centennial Celebration ~From Centinniel to Millennial Spring~

Concert (Dekelboum Concert Hall, University of Maryland, MD)
Concert (Riderwood Retirement Community, Maryland, MD)
Concert (Boston Symphony Hall, Boston, MA)
Concert (Snye Recreation Center at Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in New York Canada)
Concert (Millennium Stage, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.)

November 2012
Commencement of a public interest incorporated association Kitanodai Gagaku Ensemble

May 2013
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA)

October 2013
Concert Tour at U.S. East Coast Universities

Concert (Frist Campus Center, Princeton University NJ)
Concert & Workshop (The Berklee Performance Center at Berklee College of Music)
Concert (Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts, MA)
Introduction of Gagaku (Asian Languages & Literatures, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at UMASS)
Introduction of Gagaku (Music Department, Smith College)

April 2015
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston Common, Boston, MA)

April 2016
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston Common, Boston, MA)

April 2017
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston Common, Boston, MA)

April 2018
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston Common, Boston, MA)

June 2018
Concert in Hawaii ("Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Arrival of the First Group of Japanese Immigrants to Hawaii")

April 2019
Concert in the USA

Concert & Workshop (Williams College, Williamstown, MA)
Performance at Japan Festival in Boston (Boston Common, Boston, MA)

April 2024
Concerts in Boston

Histric Anviversary Gala (the Japan Society of Boston's 120th Anniversary and the 65th Anniversary of the Boston - Kyoto Sister City Relationship) 
Performance and Conversation at Department of Music, Harvad University
Performance at Japan Festival Boston 2024

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