Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

A non profit organization, “CATCH US PERFORMING ARTS” (CUPA) in its second year will host the first anniversary gala, “Japan-Taiwan-USA Friendship Fundraising Concert at Scandinavia House in Manhattan on Saturday, January 18, 2020. CUPA was established on September 1st, 2018, and has been serving community services and supporting artists and performers in performing arts within the tri-state area.

CUPA invited a Japanese artistic producer, Rintaro Dainichi, president of “Furusato-no-Monogatari Production Committee” based out of Sendai in the Miyagi prefecture, Japan. The concert features Daisuke Oyama (baritone), Caroline Miller (soprano) and Ping-An Lin (piano). A reception will follow the concert.

This concert is going to be the debut in the U.S. for the Japanese native, Dainichi, who will be working on an opera titled, “Koxinga,” the production of Japan and Taiwan, which is to be completed in 2024, and is commissioned by CUPA. Dainichi programmed the Japan-Taiwan-USA Friendship Fundraising Concert; “Uniting Through Music” as its first anniversary event. His intention is to unite three countries; Japan, the United States, which started “Operation Tomodachi(friendship),” and Taiwan, which provided Japan the most physical and mental support when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11th, 2011.

Program includes; a piano solo, “Variations of Taiwan folk songs”, baritone solo piece, “The Moon of Wild Castle” (Rentaro Taki), soprano aria, “Caro Como,” (Puccini) and return song, ”From now on, Thank you,” composed by Rintaro Dainichi.

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