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Naruse Marin （成瀬茉倫）
A singer and sanshin player of shimauta from Amami Islands in Japan
4th Year Student, Faculty of Policy Management Keio University
Marin Naruse was born in Hyogo prefecture and moved to Amami Island at the age of four. She began learning shimauta and sanshin in the third grade of elementary school. As a shimauta artist, she has won multiple awards at competitions and collaborated with various artists including jazz pianists and orchestra.
As an official Minyo Ambassador appointed by the Japan Folk Song and Dance Association, she has been actively promoting this unique and culturally significant form of traditional music that represents the heritage of the Amami Island.
In 2023, she conducted a shimauta workshop at the 46th ICTM World Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. Acclaimed for her achievements,she has been chosen as a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council (for July-December 2023 term) and currently conducting research in New York City, focusing on the preservation of ethnic music and its application to shimauta. After the fellowship, she will go back to Japan to finish her bachelor's degree at Keio University where she has received the university's 2023 President's Encouragement Award.
She hopes to introduce shimauta to everyone in the world in both artistic and academic fields.
⚫️AWARDS
・Won the Excellence Prize at the National Minyo-Minbu Boys and Girls Competition. (08/28/2015)
・Awarded the Encouragement Prize at the Amami Minyo Grand Prix. (05/19/2018)
・Won the second place in the preliminary round of the National Minyo-Minbu Amami Union Tournament. (11/13/2021)
・Selected as a grantee of Asian Cultural Council, New York Fellowship 2023. (2022)
・Received the Keio University President’s Encouragement Award. (03/23/2023)
⚫️PERFROMINGE EXPERIENCES OF SHIMAUTA
・Served as a shimauta performer at the Native Sea Amami restaurant every Saturday for six years in junior and high school. (2013-2019)
・Served as a shimauta performer at farewell ceremonies of cruise ships organized by the Amami Ohshima Tourism Association throughout 3 years of high school. (2016-2019)
・Selected as one of the 15 individuals in Kagoshima Prefecture for the “International Youth Exchange Program” and dispatched to Hong Kong. Performed shimauta in front of government officials and university students there. (09/15/2016)
・Performed in “Minyo Sonic” held in Edo Tokyo Museum. (02/26/2017)
・Performed at Tama Art University, “The Beginning of Line Carving – From Ireland and Scandinavia to the Amami islands”. (06/04/2018)
・Performed in Tianjin, China for the opening event of a Japanese restaurant, “Wasuke”. (11/23/2019)
・Performed the celebratory shimauta at the “New Year’s Greeting Party for Tokyo Amami Group”. (01/19/2020)
・Performed at the “8th Tokunoshima Tourism and Products Fair in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo”. (02/23/2020)
・Performed at "New Year's Traditional Performing Arts & New Year's Concert: Rakugo, Shimauta, and Classical Music in a Salon," a project subsidized by Kagoshima Prefecture for cultural and artistic performances. (01/29~31 2021)
・Performed at Io World, Kagoshima Aquarium for the 2021 Kagoshima Prefecture Unique Avenue Activation Project “Inheritance of Culture Carried by the Black Current”. (01/30/2022)
・Performed in “Magun Music Festival” hosted by Denpaku Amami and collaborated with Yoshiko Kishino, a famous Jazz pianist in japan. (02/04/2022)
・Planned and performed in “Tomoshibi Sangen” and collaborated with the Japanese harp, Tsugaru shamisen under the light of Japanese candles in Koumyo temple, Minatoku, Tokyo.(04/24/2022)
・Performed in “Aoyama Odoru” held in a live music club, MINAMIAOYAMA MANDALA. (08/17/2022)
・Performed in the New York Japan Parade 2023. (05/13/2023)
・Performed in "PR Kagoshima Day- Shima Uta & Oshimatsumugi- " at Japan House, São Paulo(08/05/2023)
・Performed at the Japan Village Beer Garden Festival at Japan Village Brooklyn. (08/16/2023)
⚫️ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
・Delivered an oral presentation and won the Grand Prix at the “3rd International Symposium for High School Students”. (01/31~02/07 2018)
・Participated in the “Global Link Singapore 2018” held at the National University of Singapore as the representative of Japanese high school students. (07/21~24 2018)・Served as a panelist at the “2nd Amami World Natural Heritage Promotion Symposium” hosted by Kagoshima prefecture. (10/04/2019)
・Founded and initiated “Meet My Amami”, a student group aimed at promoting Amami culture among young people in Japan. (06/17/2021)
・Delivered an English presentation about shimauta in “Online Webinar and Music workshop: Hybrid Cultures and Sonic Diversity of Thai and Japanese music” hosted by Mudita and Japan Foundation in Bangkok. (11/01~09 2021)
・Invited as a guest lecturer to the “Musics of Japan” class by Patrick Savage, the associate professor at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus and gave a lecture about shimauta. (11/04/2021)
・Produced and planned the “1st Japanese Traditional Culture Summit” targeting young people with the support of Mudita, a non-profit organization in Japan. (02/19/2022)
・Participated as a singing example of shimauta at the Keio Institute of Language and Culture public workshop titled “Scientific Study of Utagoe(Singing Voice). (11/29/2022)
・Invited to participate in an interactive dialogue with the Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture held in Tokyo. The discussion focused on the current state of education in the Amami Islands and the future of the Amami community in Tokyo.(12/11/2022)
・Invited as a guest speaker to the Expo Mer Fujisawa’s webinar event and given a presentation titled “SHIMAUTA music from Amami Islands: The Relationship with the Ocean”. (06/06/2023)
⚫️MEDIA APPEARANCES
・Featured on NHKFM "Ren Komai's Nipomin!” (01/03/2020)
・Featured in YOUTH STUDIO by WEGO x Dentsu Youth Research Department magazine[He~se~ no Yabo~ Vol. 8]. (11/13/2020)
・Featured in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper "New Adults in the 21st Century”. (01/12/2021)
・Featured on NHKFM "Tamiuta of Yoshiki Risa” (06/13/2021)
・Appeared in TV commercials for the “60th commemorative Reimeikan special exhibition, Hokorasha Amami: The World of Shima Interwoven with the Sea and the Mountains”. (09/30~11/07 2021)
・Featured in Portrait in the Spring 2022 (No. 314) issue of ”Juku”, a quarterly PR Magazine for Keio University."(2022)
・Featured in the Minami Nippon Shimbun Newspaper, "Kao"(09/30/2022)
・Featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper, "Shimauta Research. Utatte Hassin."(10/17.2022)
・Apperead in TV program "Morisanchu no! A beautiful Journey on Amami Oshima.(2022)
・Appeared in KKB Kagoshima Broadcasting, "Bringing shimauta to the World: Efforts of a University Student from Amami" featured on J-Chan+. (2022)