Activity

Recent Activity In Japan

Recent CD Recordings:
Hiro Yamanaka (Sorry I'm Late)
Matsuyama Chiharu (Columbia Records)
"Tiger" Onitsuka (SONY Records)
Yuki Koyanagi (Sunrise-Warner Music Japan)
Makoto Kawamoto (unreleased)
Makoto Kuriya (Antithesis II-King Records)
Makoto Kuriya (TV Anthology)
Takeshi Ito (Double Circle-King Records)
Jeff Curry (In Pieces)
Neil Stalnaker (And Now The "Bad News")
Neil Stalnaker (Improvisation #1)
Asako Toki (Makoto Kuriya, producer)

Movie Soundtrack Recordings:
Siberian Express II (Mizuno Haruo - director)

Video Game Recordings:
Ninja Blade (Microsoft-Norihiko Hibino, producer)
Metal Gear Solid (KONAMI-Norihiko Hibino, producer)
Rogue Galaxy (KONAMI-Norihiko Hibino, producer)
numerous unannounced/unreleased video game recordings

Movies:
Last Love (starring: Misaki Ito and Masakazu Tamura)
Toyota Promotional Video (TV Asahi Recording Studio)

TV:
Fumouchitai (starring: Koyuki)
Unbelievable! (Several episodes 1998-2002)

Music Video:
"Rip Slyme" (#1 Hip Hop Band in Japan new music video)

Internet T.V.: NTT/Hikari-Plala TV Jazz Channel:
Neil Stalnaker Quintet LIVE & Interview
YUME-GOTO LIVE & Interview
Tokyo Big Band LIVE & Interview

Interviews/Photos/Reviews:
American Airlines Magazine (Interview regarding the "jazz scene" in Tokyo)
Jazznin Magazine Japan Up (Los Angeles magazine introducing Japan)

Radio:
Interview and performance with Hoki Miller (Inter FM)

Recent Concerts/Performances/Tours:
Ginza SWING (Norio Maeda & the Windbreakers)
Hotel Ruiz Jazz Party Morioka, Japan (Keiko Borjeson)
Steinway Salon Tokyo, Japan (Keiko Borjeson)
JZ Brat Shibuya, Tokyo (Kankawa Band)
Granship Jazz Festival (Norio Maeda Big Band with Terumasa Hino)
Guest soloist with Ashigara Wind Orchestra
Tokyo FM Hall concerts (Bill Watrous and Bob Shepherd guest soloists)
Foreign Correspondents' Press Club (Yurakucho)
Rikkyo University (Brass Ensemble Christmas Concert)
Rikkyo University Jazz Concert w/ Yousuke Yamashita
Tokyo Big Band
Tom Pierson Big Band
Seredipity Big Band
East/West Unit Japan Tour (Neil's band)
Tokyo International Jazz Festival 2006 (w/ Norihiko Hibino)
Yokohama Jazz Promenade Jazz Festival 2005 and 2006
Senzoku College of Music Summer Music Festival (Karuizawa, Japan)
Asahi Jazz Festival
Kagoshima Jazz Festival
Asagaya Jazz Streets
jill-Decoy (J-Pop-Osaka)
Senzoku University Faculty Concerts
Seiichi Nakamura Christmas Concert
Super Deluxe with Morgan Fisher
Senzoku College & Kawaii Concert Series (N. Stalnaker Quintet)
Roppongi Hills Hyatt Hotel
Ayako Sawada Dinner Show
Jimmy Smith Tribute (Sweet Basil, Roppongi)
Park Hyatt Hotel-Tokyo (3 years weekly performances at the New York Bar)
Roppongi Hills Grand Hyatt
Four Seasons Hotel
Century Court Club
Shiba Park Hotel Bar 15's
Imperial Hotel w/ Orchestra of the Americas
ANA Hotel
Tokyo Dome Hotel (Artists' Cafe)
Le Petit Tonneau
Japan Trumpet Association Festival
All-Japan High School Big Band Festival (Stella Theater Orchestra)
Many, many tours of Japan

Performance Cities:
Sapporo, Sendai, Nagano, Utsunomiya, Karuizawa, Yokohama, Tokyo, Kyoto, Niigata, Odawara, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Kagashima, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, Shibushi, Gifu, Kumagaya, Fukushima, Matsuyama, Takamatsu, Himeji, Kurashiki, Fukuyama, Yamaguchi, Oita, Tanegashima, Izumi, Yatsushiro, Kawasaki, Tachikawa, Karuizawa

Jazz Clubs:
Motion Blue, STB (Sweet Basil-Tokyo), Slow Boat-Sapporo, Satin Doll-Sendai, Bossa-Nagano, Star Eyes-Nagoya, Lovely-Nagoya, Royal Horse-Osaka, Jazz On Top-Osaka, Cookie Jar-Okayama, SOHO-Hiroshima, New Combo-Fukuoka, Ashitanochizu-Kagoshima, Bb-Miyazaki, Shinjuku Jazzspot J, Five Star Records (Yokohama), Airegin (Yokohama), Sometime, Body and Soul, Mandala, Mahounoryu, JZ Brat, KoKo, Meg, Tokyo Main Dining, Pit Inn, Janome, Manhattan Bleu, Vanilla Mood, Akai Karasu, Kenny's Bar, Half Tone, Jesse James, Blues Alley, Ginza Swing

Teaching:
Senzoku College of Music: 
Private Trumpet Instruction Ensemble Director Open School: Ensemble and Private lessons Entrance Exams: performance exams
Sugiyama Brass Camp 2010 (Nagano): Improvisation workshop
Yokohama Jazz Promenade: Jazz Competition Judge
Private trumpet studio: Ikebukuro Studio Forte

USA/Europe/Caribbean: Performances/Tours:
Montreux Jazz Festival
Wichita Jazz Festival
Ohio State University Jazz Festival
Downhill Jazz Festival
W. Va. Wine and Jazz Festival
International Saxophone Symposium
International Trombone Workshop
Concert Tour of Switzerland and Italy: Neil Stalnaker Quartet/Trio
Montreux Jazz Festival
Verbier Summer Music Festival
Lake Maggiore Jazz Festival
Concert Tour of Russia: Neil Stalnaker Quintet Moscow, St.Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk, Novokuznetsk and other cities
U.S. Navy Ceremonial Band, Washington, D.C.: White House Support Unit - Presidential Events U.S. Navy Commodores Big Band, Wash., D.C.: Trumpet soloist National Tours (100+ concerts per year)
Smithsonian Institution Museums - weekly performances
International Assoc. of Jazz Educators Convention - IAJE (Los Angeles)
Mid-West National Band Clinic (Chicago)
Concerts in Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Nashville, Chicago and many more. 
Carnival Cruise Lines: Miami, Cazumel Mexico, Grand Cayman, and Jamaica
Greenbrier Resort (Top 10 Resorts in the USA)
Performances with Temptations, Pat Boone, Diane Carroll, Four Tops, Eddie Daniels, Pete Christlieb, Butch Miles, Duffy Jackson, Roger Humphries, Gene Ludwig, Jimmy Ponder, Arnie Lawrence and many others.

Teaching:
Clinics nationwide as a member of the U.S. Navy Commodores
Private trumpet studio Washington, D.C.
West Virginia University: Prep Dept. private trumpet instruction Summer Jazz Camp Instructor
Davis and Elkins College: Presidents Council Teagle Foundation Grant: Created music festivals in West Virginia Performed at and coordinated hundreds of day-time school concerts/clinics in West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia elementary, junior high and high schools D&E College adjunct faculty trumpet instructor D&E College adjunct faculty jazz improvisation instructor