TAIKOZ
TAIKOZ
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
The world-renown Sydney-based taiko ensemble Taikoz has a range of performances that will add that extra excitement, edge and energy to your event. Taikoz’s fast-paced virtuosity on the Slung Drum Katsugi-okedo, dramatic presence on their 250kg Grand Drum Odaiko, and everything in between, has been seen and heard in the conference room to concert hall, ballroom to bridge… yes, we’ve played on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge!
Ian Cleworth and Riley Lee formed Taikoz in 1997. Over the past twenty-six years, the group has developed a wide and original repertoire of works and productions that has seen them perform on the stages of Australia’s finest concert halls, in the theatres of regional Australia, and in leading theatres and concert halls worldwide. Taikoz has performed in Japan, Paris, Bangkok, Taiwan, Abu Dhabi, and the USA where the ensemble headlined the Taiko Nation concerts at the 2014 World Taiko Gathering in Los Angeles. Most recently Taikoz toured India, receiving much critical acclaim for CHI UDAKA, their collaboration with Lingalayam Dance Company.
Esteemed collaborators include composers Sandy Evans, Lachlan Skipworth, Gerard Brophy, Andrea Molino and Michael Askill, and artists as diverse as John Bell and the Bell Shakespeare Company, taiko greats Eitetsu Hayashi, Yoshikazu Fujimoto, Chieko Kojima and Kaoru Watanabe, the Sydney Improvisers Composers Kollektiv Orchestra, First Nations Artist Waangenga Blanco, art-music ensembles Synergy Percussion and Ensemble Offspring, as well as distinguished choreographers Meryl Tankard and Anandavalli. The group has also collaborated with Kodo on a nation-wide tour of Australia.
Taikoz has appeared in concerto works that include 13 performances of Maki Ishii’s ground-breaking MONO-PRISM, Gerard Brophy’s BOOK OF CLOUDS and Andrea Molino’s multi-media WINNERS, which premiered at the Brisbane Festival and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Collaborating orchestras are the Sydney, Melbourne, West Australian and Queensland Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Dresden Sinfoniker in Europe. Most recently, Taikoz, Riley Lee and Kaoru Watanabe were featured soloists with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, performing their own works in arrangements for the ensemble and orchestra, culminating in a newly commissioned work by Lachlan Skipworth, THE BREATH OF THUNDER.
In 2016, co-founders Ian and Riley were both awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation for their contributions towards promoting friendship and goodwill between Australia and Japan.
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