Artist Profile
Ryoko Sakurai
Listening to the sound of Ocarina says tears are overflowing. She began flute at the age of fifteen. And she passed Osaka College of Music. She draws a dream of becoming a flute player, after that she has the mental attitude of "grasping the opportunity" and starts making efforts to change her dream to reality. When her path of dreams came to be visible, she developed illness Crohn's disease. A spectacular fight against illness began. A doctor stop took on her planned study in France. And the worldwide player 's way is over. But she had a spirit of losing. After that she repeated the hospital discharge from the hospital. Still she continued her performance. And she joined the nationwide tour as a member of the flute ensemble "Elio". She also passed the audition of the Opera House Orchestra and was about to live in the world of classical, pop and jazz. But her condition got worse, ruptured the bowel obstruction, wandered through life and death, lost the power to live and gave up both dreams and flutes. However, in 2001, she got a miracle. There was a chance of suddenly playing on the stage. She stood on stage while trembling, and then changed her fate significantly. As a lecturer, she got the opportunity to play again. By that time, she began Ocarina. Because she thought that "I want to play musical instruments out of my pocket". A lot of people began to say, "My heart was washed" by her Ocarina's sound. And she found the charm of Ocarina 's mysterious sound. In 2018 she is trying to create the world of "Power Ocarina" to challenge its possibilities. "Power Ocarina" is a performance that puts the heart into the sound, a performance that puts the soul in the sound, "says Ryoko Sakurai . July 2018 Completed the album "Power Ocarina", I decided to aim for the world, a dream that had given up only one in my life. The goal is high, grammy award winning.