Kimura Chizuga
Ikuta-ryu sokyoku Seigenkai
Adachi Seiga 2nd Iemoto
Ikuta-ryu Sokyoku Seigenkai
Adachi Seuga 3rd Iemoto
Ikuta-ryu sokyoku Seigenkai
Tadao Sawai
the Former president of Sawai Sokyoku-in
Kazue Sawai
@Takasaki College with a major in koto(1986-1988)
@Sawai Sokyoku-in(1988- )
completed one-year intensive seminar at the Sawai Sokyoku-in
Shoko Hikage began playing Koto at age of 3. In 1988, she graduated from Takasaki College with a major in Koto music and she was accepted as a special research student in Sawai Sokyoku In under Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, where she received her master's cetificate. In 1992, she moved to Honolulu Hawaii to teach koto at the Sawai Koto Kai Hawaii. There she held her first American solo recital at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Theater as part of the New Music Across America Series. In 1997, she moved to San Francisco and performed regularly in solo and on collaboration with other artists throughout the world.
