Tokyo Academy of Instrumental Heritage Music Invites applications for its 2025 Global Artist Residency
(Supported by the Toshiba International Foundation)
Applications for the 2026 residency are accepted through Monday, March 31, 2025. If you encounter a technical issue while submitting the application, please contact us at info [at] taihm.org.
One or more outstanding professional Western-music wind instrumentalists will be chosen for a two- to three-month residency in Tokyo for one-on-one training by master Japanese wind instrumentalists in the performance of the Japanese wind instrument of your choice for which 20th- and 21st-century repertoires already exist.
Qualifications
- The artist must be a Western-music wind instrumentalist currently active in a major orchestra or ensemble outside Japan.
- Preference will be given to applicants under 50 years of age.
- There are no citizenship limitations except as may exist between Japan and your country.
- Japanese language not required; correspondence will be in English.
Choose from the following instruments (other instruments may be added in future years):
- Shō (free-reed, 17-pipe mouth organ)
- Hichiriki (vertical loose double-reed pipe)
- Ryūteki (transverse, double-octave flute)
- Shakukhachi (end-blown bamboo flute)
Application
Ken Aoki:
Executive Director
Early Music Asia-Japan Initiative
IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives
407 Kent Hall, MC 3907
1140 Amsterdam Avenue
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Application Deadline: March 31, 2025
Announcement of Selected Artists: April 30, 2025
Residency Dates: Spring 2026, the residency must start between January 10 and March 20, 2026.
Costs: The residency covers round-trip discount economy airfare to Tokyo, lessons, housing, and living costs. Applicants, however, are strongly encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions as well.
Cooperating Institutions
- International House of Japan for accommodations.
- Musashino Gakki Instruments (in Japanese only) for practice and lesson space.