M for M is a community to donate sound booths to hospitals for the patients and healthcare professionals. The Ms are “medicine” and “music.” M for M will organize musical concerts called “Memorial Spera” in order to raise money for donating sound booths to hospitals on behalf of the cellist Yamamoto Kanchi, who was hospitalized for more than 300 days due to leukemia. The M for M community will pursue this contribution to society.
Memorial Spera is from Trio Spera, a piano trio of Yuri Horiuchi (Vn.), Aki Mochizuki (Pf.), and Kanchi Yamamoto (Vc.). Trio Spera was named by Pianist Shigeo Neriki, who gave chamber music lessons to the piano trio.
M for M will be supported by people of the two Ms “medicine” and “music,” and those who love music and understand its social significance.
Logo concept
Music with Life
The heart is with f-holes. The heart represents medical care and Cellist Kanchi’s tenderness and graciousness. This logo shows that playing music and loving music will support and advance healthcare and medicine.
Keito Watanabe
Cellist Kanchi Yamamoto started practicing the cello at the age of three in the music lessons of the Suzuki Method. He entered Gakushuin Primary School in 2007 and also started the Saturday class of the Music School for Children affiliated with the Toho Gakuen School of Music in 2010. Kanchi entered Toho Gakuen Music High School in 2016 and Toho Gakuen University on a scholarship in 2019.
Kanchi won 1st prize in the elementary school category in the 13th Izuminomori Junior Cello Contest in Osaka in 2013 and 1st prize in the junior high school category in the same contest (the 16th) in 2016. He won 1st prize in the 73rd Student Music Concours of Japan in the Tokyo Contest and in the nationwide contest as well.
Kanchi won the 42nd Kirishima International Music Festival Kagoshima award and its Music Director’s award as a member of Trio Spera in 2021. Kanchi studied cello with Yoshihiko Terada, Hideki Kitamoto, and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. He studied piano with Ryoji Ariyoshi. He studied chamber music with Kazuhide Isomura, Nobuko Yamazaki, Kazuomi Fujii, and Shigeo Neriki. Kanchi won the Cello Ensemble Saito three times. He received the first dan level of Aikido called Kobudo and he was chosen as a member of Honda The Power of Teen.
⇒the Suzuki Method
https://suzukiassociation.org/about/suzuki-method/
⇒Gakushuin Primary School
https://www.gakushuin.ac.jp/prim/
⇒Toho Gakuen School of Music
https://www.tohomusic.ac.jp/english/index.html
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