Masa Ishikawa, jazz piano and David Pope, saxophone

As a pianist, Masa Ishikawa has performed at various concerts in Italy, China, and Japan. In 2023, Masa released his 2^nd original piano trio album titled First Note as well as the 3^rd original sextet album titled Montage. He premiered Suite for the Forgotten (jazz orchestra with strings) in 2015. The music is dedicated to people in Fukushima under the uncertain health impact of the radiation exposure from the nuclear power plants meltdown in 2011.

David Pope is an accomplished saxophonist, composer, and author.  He has an international reputation for over one hundred published articles in Saxophone Journal and Saxophone Today.  As a soloist, he has performed throughout the United States and in Europe and Asia.  He recently served on the jury of the prestigious $100,000 M-prize chamber arts competition and the faculty of the Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy (Thailand).  He endorses the R.S. Berkeley “Virtuoso”saxophone.