March 9 Press Release
Acclaimed Harpsichordist in Concert at WSU-LC
CELINA, OHIO --
Eiji Hashimoto, an internationally-acclaimed harpsichordist, will present a concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2002, in the auditorium at Wright State University-Lake Campus. Tickets can be purchased the evening of the concert with prices set at $8.00 for adults and $4.00 for students. This event is sponsored by your local College-Community Arts Council with additional contributions from Wright-State University-Lake Campus, WKKI, WCSM and the Ohio Arts Council.
The program for the evening includes works by Jean-Phillippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.
Dr. Hashimoto is a graduate of Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Chicago, and Yale University of Music. He has taught at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and has been at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music as Professor of Harpsichord and Artist in Residence for nearly three decades.
To his credit, Dr. Hashimoto has received numerous prizes and awards including a Fulbright Study Grant, a French Government Research Grant, the Prize of Excellence from the Japanese Ministry of Cultural Affairs, and a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Grant in Bellagio, Italy.
Hashimoto has seven CD’s and a dozen LP’s under various labels, both here and abroad. He has also published many ur text editions of eighteenth century keyboard collections. He has made more than sixty international tours.
For more information about this concert, email Alex Pittman.
Thanks, Sue Pittman.
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