Tomoko Sugawara
Tomoko Sugawara is a
harpist from
Tokyo, Japan, who grew up playing classical and
Irish harp before learning to play the
kugo or
angular harp. With
Swedish professor
Bo Lawergren, whom she met at a kugo museum exhibit in
Nara, Japan, she engineered a fully working model of a kugo and hired American harp builder Bill Campbell to construct it. After adjusting to the soft sound of the model, she recorded a CD on
Motéma Music called ''
Along the Silk Road'', released in 2010, which was a nominee for the Independent Music Awards in the Traditional/World category. She worked with
flutist Robert Dick and
bendir and
darabukka player
Ozan Aksöy for pieces composed by
Kikuko Masumoto,
Stephen Dydo (based on music from the
Tang dynasty),
Quţh al-Din al-Shīrāzī (1236–1311, Iran),
Robert Lombardo,
Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour, and Sugawara's own arrangements of works by
Alfonso X.
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