Momo Hamada
Momo, originally from Nara, Japan is a passionate performer and teacher based in Brisbane, Australia. Music has been part of Momo’s life from the beginning, having started music lessons when she was 3 years old. Momo is a graduate of Osaka College of Music where she studied classical piano performance under Michiya Otake, and Osaka School of Music where she studied contemporary music performance with Mutsuhito Murakami.
Momo is an active performer in Australia and Japan and collaborated on projects for BrisFest, Nara and in 2011 organised a massed benefit concert in Brisbane for the victims of the Tohoku Tsunami. She has played at Jungle Love Festival as part of an artists’ group, as well as various Japanese cultural events.
Momo has been an active singer all her life and has toured with, directed, accompanied and sung in choirs. Passionate about passing on Japan’s traditional culture to the next generation, Momo has spent many hours visiting elders in remote villages in South Nara learning Japanese folk tunes called warabeuta. She runs workshops teaching these to Japanese and western children throughout Australia. Momo currently teaches the piano and ukulele (beginners only), guitar (beginners only ) and Early Childhood Music Classes in Japanese at her studio in West End, Brisbane. She also directs a Japanese Singing Group KIGI that meet fortnightly and practice breathing and sing in Japanese. It is also a lovely place to make friends and socialise which she believes important for Japanese speaking community in Brisbane.
Apart from her music work, She is a mum to a young adult and enjoys gardening, vegetarian cooking, and bush walk.
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-Member of Schnauzer ( Experimental music/field recording)
-Official Supporter of Reforest Now , Regularly donating for tree planting. Check out all the offerings @kigi.au ( instagram)
Ex-member of Lunar Dirt @lunar_dirt ( As Moon Moon on Synthesizer )