Junko Tsumanuma
Born in Yokohama.
She won first prize in the NHK high school broadcasting contest (at narration category).
Working on IT Service company, she was entirely charmed with narration and after quitting she acts narration performance at live house.
She also teaches narration to high school students, saying " I enjoy a hard training together with growing students!"
Kanae Ban
Born in Narashino.
She started cello at 13. Now she challenges Beethoven Symphony Zyklus as a member of Chiba University OBOG Orchestra. She plays "Choral" (symphony no.9, op.125) on 21 SEP.
She's also experienced various styles except classical: duo or band with piano or guitar and improvisation performance according with vocal or painting.
She is a kindergarten teacher, where she adopts cello as measure of child caring to let children touch the music.
Zaiya Takahashi
Born in Maebashi.
He was familiar with composition and piano about 5. He majored in cultural history of modern Japan at university.
Now He teaches End of Life Care at Chiba University, Heart Recovering Program at Chiba Prison and Literature and Art at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
AT Maebashi City Museum of Literature, he holds the poetry-piano concert "OTO NO AYA" (Flowers of Tone) since 2013. He also composed for the exhibitions at Chiba City Museum of Art (2010-12, see here). He's now expanding activities across the realm.
Mai Ishihara
Born in Hirosaki.
She learned copperplate printing under Shigeki Tomura at Iwate University and majored in art of Japanese traditional painting at Tokyo Gakugei University.
Having a root to Yasutake Funakoshi (sculptor) and Shunsuke Matsumoto (painter), who lived in Iwate, she works mainly portrait-paintings, which are with spirituality and heat on undercurrent.
Recent show was "Picture Story with Piano" (2014).
61st Iwate Art Festival Exhibition, Prize on traditional painting (2008)
62nd Iwate Art Festival Exhibition, Prize on engraving (2009)
5th Kanae Yamamoto engraving award, Prize (2011)