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Founded in 1992
CONTACT INFO
Call (650) 382-2319
stanfordtaiko@gmail.com
http://taiko.stanford.edu
https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordTaiko
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Genre
Taiko
Band Members
Amberlin Chen, '19
Aaron Dela Cruz, '17
Meiko Flynn-Do, '19...
Kristine Guo, '20
Maimi Higuchi, '20
Grace Hong, '19
Zach Isaac, '18
Arjun Kumar, '20
Michelle Li, '19
Emily Nguyen, '17
Thi Nguyen, '18
Mark Nishimura, '16
Benji Pastel, MS '17
Sayuri Sekimitsu, '18
Dakota Shaw, '19
Alex Wang, '18
Hannah Williams, '19
Joshua Yoon, PhD '19 See More
Affiliation
Stanford University
About
Stanford Taiko is a collegiate performing ensemble devoted to bringing the awareness of taiko to the greater community. Composed of 15-20 Stanford students, Stanford Taiko is an entirely student run group under the guidance of the Department of Music.
Biography
Stanford Taiko was started in 1992 by Ann Ishimaru, Valerie Mih, and eleven other charter members with help from San Jose Taiko and other professional taiko pla...yers. Since then, Stanford Taiko has built up its collection of drums and developed its own style of performance. Stanford Taiko now has an entirely original, student-composed repertoire and makes all of their own chu-daiko and performance costumes. The group puts on an annual spring concert each year as well as other community performances and workshops.


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Current Location
Stanford, CA
categories
Musician/Band
STORY
A History of Stanford Taiko
ORIGINS
The seeds for Stanford Taiko were planted in 1991 in a class taught by Susan Hayase, a former member of San Jose Taiko, as part of a special program of Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI). The class contextualized the art of taiko by discussing its link to the Japanese American experience and inspired Ann Ishimaru ('93...
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