Japan-Connected Music with Global Appeal: Composer Chad Cannon

Chad Cannon holds his violin in front of Saigō Takamori’s Kagoshima grave in 2007. (Courtesy of Chad Cannon)

Cannon, at left, with Gotō (center) at the Thailand International Composition Festival in Bangkok in June 2014. (Courtesy of Asia/America New Music Institute)

From right, Chad Cannon with Hisaishi Joe and his daughter, the singer Fujisawa Mai, in 2017 in Paris. (Courtesy of Chad Cannon)

Cannon and members of the Asia/America New Music Institute met hibakusha Mori Shigeaki in Hiroshima. (courtesy of AANMI, photo by Benedikt Schulte)

AANMI members at Nijō Castle with Kyoto Mayor Kadokawa Daisaku in June 2018. (Courtesy of AANMI, photo by Benedikt Schulte)