Lectures & Performances

World Shakuhachi Festival 2025, "Tall Grasses" by Elizabeth Brown for shakuhachi ensemble; "Bamboo Voice, Pine Tree Silhouette" by Dozan Fujiwara for shakuhachi ensemble; "Nesting of the Cranes" (Futaiken), solo performance

World Shakuhachi Festival 2025, Workshop "Practicing the High Register on a 1.6 in Kumoi Jishi"

European Shakuhachi Society February 2025, Zoom workshops on "Takiochi" and "Mujushin Kyoku"

Lecture-recital "Art of the Shakuhachi" for National Flute Association Virtual Summer Series, July 2020

Lecture-Recital, "The Art of the Japanese Shakuhachi,"  San Antonio College, March 7, 2018

Concert and Lecture-Recital, "Breath, Sound and Zenga," Trinity University Music Department, February 14, 2018

Shakuhachi Performance, Akimatsuri Fall Festival, Witte Museum, October 8, 2017

Shakuhachi Lecture Recital, San Japan Anime Festival, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, September 4, 2017 

“Breath on Calligraphy” Lecture-Recital on Shakuhachi, with Musical Offerings Chamber Ensemble, San Antonio Museum of Art, November 13, 2016

Shakuhachi Performance, Akimatsuri Fall Festival, Jingu House Tea Garden, October 16, 2016

Where Rivers Meet Symposium Opening Concert, University of the Incarnate Word, “Takiochi” (Waterfall Falling), October 29, 2015

Music at the Center, Shakuhachi Recital, University of the Incarnate Word, Motherhouse Chapel, April 19, 2015  

Shakuhachi Soloist, Asian Festival, San Antonio, Texas, February 1, 2014

Shakuhachi Soloist, Akimatsuri Fall Festival, Austin, Texas, November 16, 2013

Faculty Recital, San Antonio College, works by Fukuda Rando & Miyagi Michio, September 26, 2013

Shakuhachi Soloist, Gala Sister City Celebration, Alamo Asian American Chamber of Commerce, July 11, 2013

Lecture recital, East Asia Institute, University of Texas at San Antonio, February 22, 2013.

Solo Recital, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, November 4, 2011.

Japanese Art at SAMA, shakuhachi, San Antonio Museum of Art, May 27, 2011.

Voyage to East Asia, with Musical Offerings Chamber Ensemble, Shakuhachi Soloist, Blue Star Art Gallery, March 24, 2010

Music on the Move Concerts, East Asia with Musical Offerings Chamber Ensemble, Shakuhachi Soloist, San Antonio Museum of Art, February 22, 2010

San Antonio Camerata, “Migration” by Elizabeth Brown for shakuhachi and string trio, Travis Park Methodist Church, April 9, 2006 (Selected for “Best of 2006” performances, San Antonio Express News)

San Antonio Museum of Art, Opening of Asian wing “Asian Treasures” May 12 – 15, 2005, Shakuhachi & koto performances with Yoko Hiraoka

Composition Recital of Michael Twomey, “Plank” for solo shakuhachi, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Sunday April 17, 2005

Society of Composers, Inc, 2005 Region VI Conference, “Plank” for solo shakuhachi, University of Texas at San Antonio, Feb. 26, 2005

Center for Spirituality and the Arts, Closing ceremony performance, January 29, 2005, Shakuhachi performance

CASA (Composer’s Alliance of San Antonio), “Plank” for solo Shakuhachi, University of the Incarnate Word, October 3rd, 2004.

World Shakuhachi Festival 2004, Invited Performer, New York City, July 29 - August 1, 2004, Premiere of “Plank” a theatrical piece for solo shakuhachi by Michael Twomey.

San Antonio Museum of Art, Shakuhachi performance, “Hanten and Happi: Japanese Firemen’s Coats Exhibit,” December 5, 2003

World Music Symposium, Shakuhachi performance, “Buddhist Meditation Music for the Japanese Shakuhachi,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March 6 – 8, 2002

San Antonio Museum of Art, “Sounds of Nature” Shakuhachi and koto concert, March 27, 2001

Our Lady of the Lake University, Premiere of shakuhachi and guitar composition by Elisenda Fabregas, Feb. 11, 2001

Center for Spirituality and the Arts, San Antonio, TX, “Shakuhachi, The Music of Zen,” solo concert, March 5, 2000

Sakamoto Zenzo Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan