厳選された素材だけが持つピュアな響きと熟練の技が引き出す安定したピッチがもたらす美しい音色は、すべてのマリンバ奏者を魅了してやみません。

美しい音を求め続けて。私たち株式会社こおろぎ社はマリンバ、シロフォンをはじめとした打楽器全般を製造しております。聴く人も演奏する人も心ときめく音を追求します。

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打楽器奏者。マリンバ演奏をメインに近年の音楽シーンで活躍。国立音楽大学を卒用語、アジア文化カウンシルの給費生としてアメリカに渡り、ミシガン大学音楽学部大学院を卒業。在学中はミシガン・パーカッション・アンサンブルの主要メンバーとして北米、日本ツアーに参加。1989年から活動を続けるパーカッション・デュオ「Chris & Shoko Percussion Duo」は「世界に類を見ない新時代の打楽器音楽のクリエーター」と評価されるなど、多くの舞台公演や音楽政策、CDなどが高い評価を得ている。
また様々な分野のアーティストとの共演も話題を呼び、国外のアートシーンで食う目されている。打楽器による音楽教育研究では多くの執筆やワークショップ、レクチャー、教科書絵の作品掲載などもある。

Acclaimed by the Boston Herald as “agile and terrifically talented,” and by the Houston Chronicle as “magnetic… impressive,” Fumito Nunoya won First Prize at the 2005 Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition in Houston, Texas. As a result, he made his U.S. concerto debut with the Houston Symphony that year. Mr. Nunoya has won top prizes at many other national and international competitions including the PAS International Marimba Competition in 2003, the National Young Artist Competition in Texas in 2003, the 3rd World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart, Germany in 2002, and the 10th Japan Classic Music Competition in 2000.

Mr. Nunoya has presented solo recitals at the University of South Florida, Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, The Boston Conservatory, A Palazzo Magnani (Italy), Conservatoire Superieur de Paris (France), and in Yamagata, Akita (Japan). Since 2002, he has performed five showcase recitals with various musicians in his home town of Odate, Akita sponsored by the Odate Culture Center. He recently released his first CD, “Red Dragonfly.” The CD includes major marimba repertoire as well as Asian folk tunes.
An active chamber musician, Mr. Nunoya has collaborated with woodwinds, strings, singers and percussionists. He has performed marimba chamber music at The Boston Conservatory and Goethe Institute in Boston, and in Japan at Okayama Symphony Hall, Izumity Hall in Miyagi, Bunsho-kan in Yamagata, and Harmony Hall in Fukui.
Mr. Nunoya has appeared as soloist with the Houston Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony (USA), Odate Wind Ensemble, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Odate Magewappa Japanese Drumming Group (Japan), and Di Repercussio Ensemble percussioni dell’Istituto Peri (Italy).
He has taught at the University of South Florida, Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2003, 2004 and 2006, and at Berklee College of Music. He has a private teaching studio in Belmont, MA.

Born in 1979 in Akita, Japan, Fumito Nunoya graduated from Yamagata University with a Music Education degree in 2001. He received a Master of Music degree in Marimba Performance from The Boston Conservatory where he studied with Nancy Zeltsman. Mr. Nunoya continued his studies at The Boston Conservatory in its distinguished Artist Diploma program, and graduated in 2006. He is the first marimba (or percussion) major in the school’s history to receive this distinction.

For more information, visit www.FumitoNunoya.com.

Graduate of Senzoku Music University, Tokyo. Studied under Junko Sakimura, Tomoyuki Okada, etc. A member of Ensemble Historia.

ロバート・ヴァン・サイス・アーティストシリーズのマリンバで有名なマリンバメーカー。多くの人はこの楽器の暗めの音色を好ましいと思っています。
ロバート・ヴァン・サイス以外にも、アレックス・ヤコボウヴィッツや小森邦彦などのアーティストがこの楽器を使っています。

Malletech is the Marimba and Mallet maker which was established by Leigh Howered Stevens. Apart from LHS, such famous players like Gordon Stout and Evelyn Glennie uses Malletec Instruments.
On the other hand, since keyboard are made one set a time for each instrument, there are opinions that the balance of the sound from one bar to the next is not optimal etc.
The instrument is thought to suite both classical repatoir as well as the modern repatoir.

The name comes from the famous Clair Omar Musser. The bars are made 50 sets a time and when assembled as an instrument, hand picking process to balance the timbre throughout the instrument is done.