Traditional Japanese Music, March 22

Masayo Ishigure, a master of traditional Japanese music, appears in Weston on Sunday, March 22 in the latest edition of Sunday Soundscapes at the Weston Public Library.

The performance starts at 4:00. A donation of $20 for adults and $10 for students is suggested, but not required. You can reserve a seat here.

Ms. Ishigure is a renowned virtuoso on koto and shamisen, stringed instruments that for hundreds of years have defined a distinctively Japanese style of musical expression.

She has recorded with Yitzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma on the Grammy Award-winning John Williams soundtrack from “Memoirs of a Geisha” and has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Japan Society, the Metropolitan Museum, and other prominent venues.

Since its debut in 2023, the Sunday Soundscapes series has covered a range of musical genres, including opera, jazz, flute and guitar, strings, piano and strings, the Great American Songbook, contemporary woodwinds, brass, and traditional lyrical music of Ukraine. The series is sponsored by Friends of the Weston Library.