The 24th Conference of the Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of the Northeast Region of the United States is being hosted at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on June 19 and 20, 2010.

The theme of the conference is

Raising the Next Generation – Teacher Training in Asian Language Pedagogy

with Dr. Patricia Wetzel, Professor of Japanese at Portland State University as a keynote speaker.

This event is made possible through the generosity of the Joseph G. Tompkins, Jr. 1962 Fund for Asian Studies and support from Williams College.

A Japanese Music Night with Marimba by Fumito Nunoya

Biography
Acclaimed by Boston Herald as “agile and terrifically talented,” and by the Houston Chronicle as “magnetic… impressive,” Fumito Nunoya won first prize at The 3^rd Libertango International Music Competition in Italy 2009, and Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition in 2005, which led to his U.S. concerto debut with the Houston Symphony. He has also won top prizes at many national and international competitions, including the Percussive Arts Society International Marimba Competition in 2003, the 3rd World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart, Germany in 2002. Mr. Nunoya has presented numerous recitals and performed with orchestras in Japan, USA and Europe. Mr. Nunoya graduated from The Boston Conservatory in its distinguished Artist Diploma program. He is the first marimba (or percussion) major in the school’s history to receive this distinction.

Mr. Nunoya is an endorser of Korogi instruments, and his signature line of mallets is published from Korogi in Japan. He was a visiting professor at Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany from Oct. 2009 to Feb. 2010.

For more information, visit www.FumitoNunoya.com.