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FUJIMOTO Takaki × MAMIYA Takumi Duo Concert "Contrasting Resonance"

Name of the organization or individual
Takumi Mamiya
subsidy category
Creation Grant
Grant Type
single year individual

FY2025 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-year Grant Art Creation Activities

Business Overview

This project was held with the aim of expanding the repertoire of mandolin guitars by featuring works by Japanese at the beginning of the 20 century and works from the 2000s onwards, and presenting the footprints of acceptance of Western culture in Japan in the past, and questioning the future of mandolin and guitar.

Cast Members
Classical Guitar: Fujimoto Takateru
Mandolin: Mamiya Takumi

Program
Takei Morinari: Twilight (1921)
Kitazume Michio: February (2018)
Kuwabara Yu: Arabesque (2012)
Yamaguchi Kyoko: Beach Birds (Japan premiere) (2003)
Kinoshita Masamichi: Ishitsuwu X (Guitar Solo) (2024)
Kinoshita Masamichi: Umi no Te XVI (premiere) (Mandolin Solo) (2023)
Kawakami Osamu: Mizusumi (2024)
Takaba Hiroaki: Gamma Collection (2021)
Nakano Jiro: Samidaru-ru-no-hi no Yuzuru (1938)
Izawa Harunao: Twain Labyrinth (commissioned premiere) (2026)

Period of Activity / Project
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Venues
KM Art Hall (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

Profile

Mamiya Takumi
Born in Suginami, Tokyo in 1993. He won first prize in the solo section of the 10 th ARTE International Mandolin Competition, first prize in the 25 th Japan Mandolin Solo Competition, and third prize in the folk instrument section of the 18 th Osaka International Music Competition.
He actively introduces and premieres contemporary works that include the mandolin, and at concerts he explores new possibilities for expression of the mandolin through explanations and program structures from his own perspective.
He studied mandolin under Tadashi AOYAMA, Michiko KATAOKA, Go MOCHIZUKI, and Takaaki SHIBATA. He studied harmonization under Ippo TSUBOI.