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Contemporary Music Performer
Kosuke Matsuda has been pursuing artistic ambitions as a music performer, artistic director, and producer. Matsuda is originally from Nagasaki, Japan, where he began his music career as a percussionist. The natural soundscape and landscape in Nagasaki, such as wind patterns on a mountain, waterfalls, and cricket sounds from fields, influenced his humanity, culture, and musicality.
Having received several awards from music competitions in the 2010s, Matsuda moved to Tokyo to earn his bachelor’s degree in music. Matsuda started his acting and producing career in Tokyo, where he first performed as an actor in Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 2014. Furthermore, Matsuda started his career as a music producer. He founded Casa-Felice, a music performance group, to provide music entertainment in retirement homes, hospices, and hospitals in the Tokyo area.
In 2015, he moved his base to Aichi prefecture in central Japan to earn his first master’s degree at Aichi University of the Fine Arts in Music Performance, where he studied with Kunihiko Komori. He graduated from Aichi University as the Valedictorian in the wind/percussion instrument performance area in 2017.
Matsuda moved to the United States in 2018 to study with Svet Stoyanov and Mattew Strauss at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, where he earned his second master’s degree and Artist Diploma in Music Performance.
Matsuda lives in San Diego as a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego. He has collaborated and performed with renowned artists and groups such as Steven Schick, Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger, Svet Stoyanov, Kunihiko Komori, Aiyun Huang, Palimpsest Ensemble, Lancaster Symphonic Orchestra, La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, and New World Symphony Orchestra. Matsuda is an active Red Fish Blue Fish member and director of LAMP(Lighting Art Music Projection) Production director.
１９９２年長崎県に生まれる。愛知県立芸術大学博士前期課程音楽研究科管打楽器領域首席修了。文化庁 芸術文化アソシエイツ育成プログラム修了。メリーランド州立タウソン大学ESL修了、フロリダ州マイアミ大学（ＵＭ）フロスト音楽学校修士課程及びアーティストディプロマ修了、現在 カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校博士後期課程在学。マリンバを山ヶ城陽子、小森邦彦、スヴェット＝ストヤノフ、打楽器を岡田全弘、深町浩司、マシュー＝シュトラウス各氏に師事。マイケル・ブリット、ジーン・ジョフロワ、中村功、三村奈々絵、大茂絵里子各氏のマスタークラスを受講。今までにマリンバ奏者小森邦彦氏、ギター奏者佐藤紀雄氏、作曲家岩本渡氏、ニューワルドシンフォニー（マイアミ）等と共演。
第１１回九州音楽コンクール管打楽器部門金賞受賞。第３４回・ ３５回長崎県高校生音楽コンクール2年連続金賞及び全九州大会への推薦を受け、３５回全九州大会（本選）金賞及びグランプリを受賞。
第１４回国際音楽コンクール長江杯 打楽器部門１位及び審査委員特別賞受賞。第４３回長崎県新人演奏会オーディション優秀賞受賞。第１０回愛知県立芸術大学 大学院最優秀修了生による演奏会に出演。第３９回中部読売新人演奏会出演。愛知県立芸術大学打楽器研究会演奏会にてフィリップ・マヌリ氏の“クラヴィエの書”を全編日本初演。
アウトリーチ演奏活動も数多く行う。上野学園大学在学時に演奏団体 Casa Felice （カーサ・フェリーチェ）を結成。首都圏の福祉施設や児童施設を中心に慰問演奏を行う。第１２回ソニー学生ボランティアファンドより給付奨学金（Ａ－コース）を授与され、ハンディキャップ支援フェスティバル「ハートフルフェスティバル」を主催。
上野学園大学主催 ２０１６年文化庁 大学を活用した文化芸術事業「音楽を学びほぐす」にて音楽ワークショップのレクチャー講師を務める。サントリーホール主宰レインボー２１「フンメル先生とその時代」（２０１４）にてフンメルに扮し、演奏会ナビゲーターを行う。
Music Collaborators
Jennifer Stasack (Composer)
Steven Schick and red fish blue fish
Roger Reynolds (Composer)
Music collaborators have greatly influenced Matsuda's musicality and technical development. His music collaborators include, but not limited to, Jennifer Stasack (composer), Roger Reynolds (composer), Steven Schick (percussionist), red fish blue fish (percussion ensemble), Aiyun Huang (percussionist) among others.
