Guest Percussionist

Mai Tadokoro

On Jan. 8, Mai Tadokoro will perform Marimba Spirtitual accompanied by Ray-Pec percussionists Daichi Tadokoro, Kit Leonard, Austin Coop. Mai is Daichi’s sister. The concert is at 7 p.m. Tuesday Jan. 8, in the Academy Theatre at Ray-Pec High School. Also performing will be the Ray-Pec Concert Band. A native of Nara, Japan, Mai Tadokoro moved to the United States in 2002. Mai is an active percussionist and educator in the Kansas City, Mo., Raymore, Mo., and the Lawrence, Kan. area.


Mai has performed as a timpanist and percussionist for opera festival in Germany, Neue Eutiner Festspiel. She was a principal percussionist with Fountain City Brass Band who has won several championships at both North America Brass Band Association Competition and US Open series. She has also played timpani with Kansas City Civic Orchestra and percussion with Northland Symphony Orchestra. Mai has collaborated with Conspirare: a Grammy-nominated professional choir group in Austin, Texas, area, for a television special aired nationally on PBS, and the recording of which was released on the Harmonia Mundi label. As a solo percussionist, Mai has won the first prize for adult solo percussion division at North America Brass Band Association Competition, the second prize for the collegiate marimba division, and third prize for collegiate multiple percussion division of Mid Missouri Percussion Arts Trophy.
Mai is also a founding member of new music percussion quartet, Ad Astra Percussion. Ad Astra Percussion commissioned Dave Hollinden’s Third Percussion Quartet.
Mai received an associate’s degree from Cottey College, a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and a master’s degree in music from The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on her DMA at The University of Kansas at Lawrence.

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