Japan trio experiment
JTE is a musical ensemble that fuses Japanese and Western instruments to innovatively rediscover traditional Japanese songs and melodies from anime and pop culture, as well as the performance of original compositions inspired by Japanese music.
Although it is a trio, each one interprets more than one instrument, generating that a show goes through a wide variety of climates and intensities making use of the different combinations of instruments that the members dominate.
Its members are:
- Adrián Ferrario – Vibraphone and percussion
- Rosario Barrios – Piano, shamisen and singing
- Gastón San Cristobal – Shinobue and wadaiko
members
Adrián Ferrario
Adrián is an orchestra director and a musician specialized in percussion. His most proficient instruments in the area of percussion are the marimba, vibraphone and timpani. He also handles other instruments such as the viola, the piano, and a wide variety of ethnic percussion instruments.
He began his musical studies at the School of Art “Republica de Italia” of Florencio Varela at age 9 as a pianist. In 2017 he graduated with a degree in chamber music and orchestra (University of Lanús).
He is currently the director of the Florencio Varela Orchestra-School “Núcleo la Carolina” and professor of the symphonic percussion chair at the Florencio Varela orchestra school and at the “República de Italia” School of Art of the same party. He teaches the chair of “History of Music 3” at the Conservatorio Bellas Artes de Quilmes. He is also a member of two independent music projects: Ciudadano Ilustre and Japan Trio Experiment.
Rosario Barrios
Rosario began his musical training from the early age of 5, venturing into the practice of piano and then continuing his training in music schools until he was 18 years old.
In 2017 she began his wadaiko practice at the Zendaiko school, and in 2019 she joined the Nikyokan Wadaiko ensemble where, in addition to her taiko profile, she applied all her musical studies in a comprehensive way, making musical arrangements, compositions and incorporation of the voice, piano and shamisen to the repertoire giving a new color to the group’s staging.
Gastón San Cristóbal
Gastón is a player of wadaiko (Japanese drum) and shinobue (Japanese flute). In addition to having trained with taiko icons worldwide, mainly when he lived in Japan, he spent a lot of time researching the instrument, its origins and the influence that the culture and history of Japan had on the art itself.
He is the artistic director of Nikyokan Wadaiko, the Japanese and taiko music ensemble of the Nikyokan cultural center, which stands out not only for its versatile approach to contemporary and traditional Japanese music, but also for its fusion with other Western musical and artistic styles.
Gastón has lived in Japan from 2014 to 2017, which changed his perspective 180 degrees on how to interpret, learn, understand and transmit not only wadaiko but also traditional Japanese arts.