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He is originally from Ikoma-city Nara-prefecture. He graduated Nara-Koriyama High school and now lives in Kokubunji-city, Tokyo. After high school he gets started playing piano. When he was 21-year-old, he dropped out Osaka Art University with his own will and has settled in Tokyo since then.

He started his musical activity as a keyboard player of Yazawa-Ekichi-Band.

After he played for some Japanese popular musicians, such as Masatoshi Nakamura and Yoko Seri, he has played as a Jazz pianist with Richard Davis and many other famous musicians.

Since 1991, being free from Jazz, he has been trying to find his own music style with a theme of "Nature".

His dynamic play, from Jazz standards to children's songs, and simple & gentle talks attracts many people, not only Jazz fan but also general people from children to aged. He hopes that everyone, who listens to his piano,feels fun and wonder of the music.

Since 1992, his project, "Waking up piano concert tour", which he has been carrying out as a part of environment conservation activity, has been focused on TV and newspapers. Through this activity, he has visited many houses and played pianos, which are not used any more, there.

Summer in 1995, for organising a network of purifying Yodogawa-river in Osaka. This unique Jazz Piano concert tour was held at 20 venues along the basin of Yodogawa-river.

In Feburuary/1994,95,96, He joined the Brussels-Piano-Festival held in Belgium.

In March/1996,97, He joined the Japan-Cultural-Festival held in South Africa. Thus he is now trying to widen his activities all over the world.

His main works are,

1.Sending pianos, which are not used in Japan, to the children in Africa and Asia.

2.Organising the activity to recycle dead/broken pianos.

3.Positively taking part in/organising the nature conservation programmes as a pianist.

CD works: a selection "Shimantogawa-river" , "Davis & Kono" and others

<World Peace >

South African law divided the population into four major racial categories: Africans (black), Europeans (whites), "Coloreds" (people of mixed ancestry) and Asians. While this law was removed from the statute books in 1991, many South Africans still view themselves and each other according to these categories.
While it will take a long time to build trust among different groups, consensus holds that South Africans must together reconstruct and develop their country and become the "Rainbow Nation."

Then we have held the concert tour with South African children from 1998.

Our group promotes protection of the natural environment and world peace through music. We send old pianos from Japan to children in Asia and Africa. We also invite South African children to attend a peace concert in Japan.

Members

Rainbow Stars2006
(The chorus groups of South African children)
Kono Yasuhiro(Piano) MASA(Vo) and more..

Rainbow Stars2006 :click (The price of Earth Harmony's CD is 3,000yen) CELEBRATION SHOSHOLOZ LAHL UMLENZE NDI HAMBA NAWE NTJILO NTJILO GREAT JOY FAME I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC DANCE SOME MORE START LOVING ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE LET THE PEACE BEGIN LIEDJIE VIR JOU MADELEINE JELLICLE SONGS FOR JELLECLE CATS EVERYTIME FOR ELISE ALWAYS WITH YOU and more..

"Japan's Last Clear River" Studded With Strangely Shaped Rocks Shimanto-gawa River, "Japan's last clear river", originates in Mt. Irazu in the western part of Shikoku's mountainous region, winds through the southwestern part of Kochi Prefecture and pours into Tosa Bay at Shimoda in Nakamura, running through a total length of 196 km. As the upper part of the river is surrounded by thick forests without any dam on the path of the river, clean water runs down to its lower reaches. There are 22 submerging bridges in all across the river: they are without handrails and go under water when the river swells. My mother's parents' home is located nearby the lower stream of Shimanto River in Shimonokae,Tosashimizu City. The name of Shimanto River had been remained in the corner of my mind for long time cause of its unusual name. Although I went there only several times when I was small. My cousin suggested to compose the the Shimanto River Suite when I performed the first live concert in Kochi six years ago. Then he sent me all the information about the river. Nature destruction is proceeding in not only Japan but also over the world in these days. I have been interested in the untouched natural river being still alive in Japan and I have been thinking of the composition of theme on Shimanto River since then. During Gulf War, nature destruction and loss of many lives were occurred in a short period, which we have never thought about. The war was resumed in Junuary 1991. Moreover,even Japan who has maintained the peace constitution joined the Allied Forces.And I feer that I have to do something about it. I hope that my performance makes a chance to think about the nature, environment, and peace to as many people as possible. Between February 10th and 11th, I visited the Shimanto River for the first time in 20years. I was very surprised that the river was polluted more than I thought. Especially at the sight og gravel-digging. The good gravel is carried out here and there to be able to produce high quality gravel.And it has been said that this brought many changes to the ecosystem of the river. However, I think that there is a difficulty of natural conservation, because that gravel digging is one of the biggest source of income for people who live there. May,1991 Yasuhiro Kono From "Pray for Shimanto" Kono Yasuhiro original solo

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