Feb-Jun 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 2 performances in Vic schools with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto. Nexus Arts
Feb 2000, Recording of shakuhachi & ocarina for sound track to The Goddess of 1967, a film by Clara Law. Music by Jen Anderson.
Mar 2000, Japanese Music in Schools (JMiS through AMN Productions). 3 solo school shows in Victoria
Mar 2000, Melbourne GRAND PRIX. Roving entertainer on shakuhachi in the driver’s and sponsor’s precinct.
Mar 2000, Guest performer at the Melbourne Goh Club presentation night following annual chess tournament at NOVOTEL, St Kilda.
Apr 2000, Commenced recording “Sounds of Global Harmony” CD with Sarah Hopkins and the visiting Gyuto Monks of Tibet
May/Jun 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 9 shows in schools in Victoria with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto. Nexus Arts & JMiS.
May 2000, Studied sumatran saluang (diagonally blown bamboo flute) with Admiral, and ‘Randai’ music theatre with Indija N Mahjoeddin.
May 2000, Artist in Residence at Kingscote Area School on Kangaroo Island, SA, putting together a music/theatre performance based on a Japanese folk tale with primary school students. JMiS
Jun 2000, World music collaboration series in The Boite World Music Cafe’s Winter Festival. Shakuhachi with Christopher Young (clarinet, bass clarinet…) Ray Pereira (West African Drums), Tzu (hip-hop vocal duo).
July 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 27 shows in QLD with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto Nexus Arts
Jul 2000, ‘Japan: Tradition in a Modern Age’ The Boite’s Winter Festival at Melbourne Town Hall with Yumi Umiumare (butoh) and Satsuki Odamura (koto).
Jul/Aug 2000, ‘BACH in a Kimono.’ Five performances of music for shakuhachi, flute and harpsichord with Peter Hagen at the Victorian Arts Centre, The Boite World Music Cafe, in Broadford and in Mornington.
Aug-Oct 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 10 shows in schools in Victoria with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto through Nexus Arts & JMiS.
Aug/Sept 2000, Music workshops on homemade instruments with children at the Peninsula hospice in Frankston.
Aug 2000, Roaming performance with Yumi Umiumare at Southgate, Melbourne
Aug 2000, National Grief Week. Solo shakuhachi at a memorial ceremony on the beach in Frankston.
Sept/Oct 2000, Composed and rehearsed ‘We Lose Things’ – trio for bass, shakuhachi and power pole bells commissioned by Le Tuan Hung of the Australian Asia Foundation and sponsored by the Australia Council for the Arts. This piece is dedicated to Machiko Kaneko (died 14/9/00)
Sept 2000, Final recording and mastering of “Sounds of Global Harmony” CD with Gyuto Monks and Sarah Hopkins at SBS studios.
Sept-Nov 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 18 shows in schools in Victoria with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto. Nexus Arts
Sept 2000, Christopher Young & Anne Norman. Duo recital at The National Gallery on Russell st. Bass clarinet, clarinet and shakuhachi
Oct 2000, Japanese Fair, Frankston Susono sister city celebrations. Solo shakuhachi; shakuhachi & Sado (tea ceremony); shinobue flute with JAPEP taiko ensemble.
Oct 2000, TAIKO Drums & Flutes of Japan. 7 shows in schools in Adelaide with Toshi & Junko Sakamoto. Nexus Arts
Oct 2000, Nadoya Music and Dance Company – Globe to Globe World Music Festival in Kingston.
Nov 2000, Filming of video/cd-rom with Jouissance
Nov 2000, Prahan Festival – Roaming performance with Yumi Umiumare
Nov 2000, Solo shakuhachi for private wedding and reception, Merran and Balindt at Montsalvat
Nov 13th 2000, ‘We Lose Things’ premier performance in the Rechabite Hall, Northcote with Nick Tsiavos, Peter Neville, Deborah Kayser and Anne Norman. Sponsored by Australia Asia Foundation.
Nov 2000, Arts Victoria Touring Grant received for Questing Spirit – harpsichord and shakuhachi duo with Peter Hagen. A show & tell session with prospective composers for the duo, and a submission to the Australia Council for the Arts to commission new works.
Nov/Dec 2000, Composition and arrangements of Celebrate Life and Summer’s Day for choir and band to be performed in summer 2001 at the Frankston Festival on Sea, sponsored by Frankston City Council
Dec 2000, 3 solo Japanese Music shows in Vic. Nexus Arts
Dec 2000, Guest artist in JAPEP annual student taiko concert at Melba Hall, University of Melbourne