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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。

Born in Tokyo in 1975, Shinsuke Ishihara started to study music at age of four. In 1998, he graduated Toho Music University with the first prize. In 1999, Ishihara won the first prize in the All Japan Solist Competition, Marimba division. Also, he received "Grootste onderscheiding" from Belgium Royal Music Antwerpen Conservatorium.

Since then, he has been giving numerous concerts, and recordings. He appears in "Marimba Dancing", which is going to be released in March 2000. In April 2000, he will do recording with Momoko Kamiya and Ludwig Albert . Apart from his solo activigy, he has formed a duo with Ludwig Albert in 1999.

Ishihara studied marimba with Keiko Abe, Momoko Kamiya, Mutuko Fujii, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, Katrina Mycka,Gordon Stout, Ludwig Albert, and percussion with Kyouiti Sano,Leo Oudrits,Koen Willmash, and the Vibraphone with Carlo Williams.

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

Andy Hanrsberger completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature at The Eastman School of Music, where he also received the prestigious Performer's Certificate. He has presented numerous recitals and clinics throughout the United States. A member of the marimba duo PARAGON with partner Greg Giannascoli. Director of Percussion studies at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. Dr. Harnsberger is a performing artist and clinician for the Pearl Corporation and performs on an Adams Artist Series marimba exclusively. He is also an artist/endorser for Innovative Percussion mallet company. Website: members.aol.com:/ahparagon (Added 1999.2.6)

Mike HAMNET is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.UK,Mike's career has covered pretty much every musical base possible.From world premieres of several concerti,most notably Paul Mitchell-Diavidson's "Aficana" broadcast on national television,to free-wheeling jazz and salsa,via many West End shows (Pirates of Penzance mallets chair,Lion King African and mallets,and assistant conductor,amongst others) and contemporary and orchestral concerts and recordings with,amongst others,the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,Halle Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata,Mike's virtuosic musicality always brings a smile to the listener. Currently working on Disney's production of the Lion King in London,future plans include recording a new album of original compositions with his new group "Project One",followed by a tour around Europe in summer 2003. Mike can be contacted at:mikeymd@btinternet.com (Added 2002.8.31)

Check out her web site to see all the current informatin about this famous percussionist. She is a pupil of Keiko Abe.

Greg Giannascoli was top prize winner of the 1997 Patrons of Wisdom international young artist competition held in Toronto, Canada. He has also won a grant for a custom marimba from the Philadelphia Music Foundation, the National Music Teachers Competition, the Montpeliar Cultural Arts Society Recital Competition, and others. Greg has studied with William Moersch, Dean Witten, Donald Bick, and Leigh Stevens. He has also had coachings with Gordon Stout, Nancy Zeltsman, and Machiko Takahashi. Greg performs exclusively on the Yamaha 6000 and uses Innovative Percussion Mallets. He represents the Percussion Marketing Council, which supplies matching funds for his educational appearances. He is a faculty member at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Reviews of Greg's performances include: "Here was music played so well it would capture and hold anybody's attention indefinitely."-Classical New Jersey, "With great mastery and two mallets in each hand Giannascoli gave a true lesson with what can be done with that singular instrument."-The National of Mexico City, Reviews of his first CD 'Concertino' : "...elegantly phrased and sensitively performed...sails confidently through the most challenging technical passages."-Percussive Notes. Greg's second CD 'Velocities' will be out summer 1999. (Added 1999.6.21)

Gergely Nagy, Yamaha marimba artist, was born in 1974, in Miskolc, Hungary, as a third child of a musician couple. He started his percussion studies at the age of 14 with an excellent Polish teacher, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

He graduated in the Music College in Karlsruhe and in the Music Academy in Stuttgart. He specialized to marimba in those years. In 2000 for the invitation of Prof. Abe Keiko, world famous marimba artist, he spent 1 year in Tokyo as a scholar. Today he is teacher in the Music School of Stuttgart.

Gergely Nagy has concerts regularly in European countries (France, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary) and his name is known in Egypt and Japan as well. (Added 2004.9.5)

Mutsuko Fujii, a percusionist, a marimbist, and a Sanukite player (Sanukaite is a marimba like instrument made of a type of stone called Sanukite), graduated Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in 1970 and since then, she has been actively playing as a percussionist as well as a solo and duo marimba player. Her duo group (Fujii/Kikuchi Duo : Kikuchi=Tomoko Kusakari) commisioned over 40 peices of works, and is slated to have created "new sound" for the marimba duo. Since 1985, her solo activity gained momentum and this resulted in premiering many well known pieces like Keiko Abe's Prism Rhapsody. Naturally, she appeared in TV and Radio many times. She is also a composer and many works are published.

On the academic side, she teaches at Senzoku Gakuen University.

She also spend a lot of effort for music education of children, and is the Chiar of All Japan Children's Education League.(Added 1999.7.12)