AJSW Blog Archive 2008 - 2014 (discontinued)

So we’ve got a new blog!

But before I do anything else, I’d like to thank everyone who made last year such a success. Acknowledgements for 2009 will be posted here shortly.

Japan Airlines Supporting Sponsors 2008

Thank you for our best year yet to:

Donations: Mikio Abé, Jim Sherwin

Individual Sponsors: Pam Baily, P. Walsh – L. Bingham, Solicitors

St Dunstan: Fr. William (& family), Matthew, Ingrid, Fatma (Xmas Cards) & the Church Administrators

Beyond The Call! Leigh (Teas & a lot more!), Philip Ronan (Web Site Organiser)

Special Society Friends: Jackie & Michael Wright, Donald Scannell, Jill (St Martin / St Andrew-in-the-Wardrobe), Gail (Cultural Advisor) & Mike Forrest, Kinue Kato – (Film and Japanese Presentations), Robert Rigby – JAL Marketing & Sales Manager

Other Venues: Bristol Cathedral (Jake Olver), St James, Piccadilly (Sarah Baxter – Concert Organiser)

And a special thank you to all the musicians who played and sang for us in 2008

(Random order):

Piano: Mayumi IIda, Masachi Nishiyama, Sayaka Matsumoto, Aska Matsumoto, Richard Black, Lyn Rothstein, Yukino Kano, Akiko Kumakura, Yukiko Shinohara, Kan Tomita, Yoko Nakamura, Tadashi Imai, Shoko Gamo, Seiko Nagoka, Makiko Sado, Junko Nishiyama, Wai Yin Lee, Kyoko Fukuo, Philip Howard, Yukie Wake, Kanae Furumoto, Satoko Doi, Noriko Sekiya, Jozef Janik.

Violin: Mizuka Yamamoto, Asuka & Erica Tsujimoto, Ayako Yamazaki, Kyoko Sugai, Benn Wragg, Chihiro Ono, Haruko Motohashi, Mari Yamamoto, Nahoko Sawa, Hyun Ae Lee, Liza Izumi, Atsuko Kamisaku, Midori Komachi, Aya Kiyanaga, Jae Yoo, Kyoko Fukuo, Rafael Lopez Bolivar, Mark Derudder, Haru Sekiya, Pedro Meirelss, Michiko Negami,

Viola: Julia O’Riordan, Fiona Winning, Ruijia Hu.

Cello: Alison Gilles, Ken Ichinose, Laura Anstee, Vladimir Waltham.

Harpsichord: Masumi Yamamoto.

Clarinet / Saxophone: Joanne Rozario.

Oboe: Alex Birchall.

Flute: Eva Caballero, Simon Gillivar.

Sopranos: Mikiko Ridd, Asuka Kurogi, Masami Uehara, Elinor Chapman, Danae Pallikaropoulos.

Tenors: Octavio, Koji Terada.

Guitar: Hideaki Domon

Pop Vocal: Sira Garcia

Taiko Drumming: Liz Walters (Tamashii Daiko).

Japanese Arts: Akemi Solloway.