Q:Facts: - genres: traditional progressive rock , contemporary classical music japanese music , jazz , free improvisation , - years active: 1986 present - landscape: yes - instruments: koto -rrb- , shamisen , electronics , voice -lrb- 21-string , 17-string , 18-string , 13-string - caption: michiyo yagi playing a 21-string koto - occupations: musician , educator - labels: idiolect / baj , tzadik , zipangu , east works entertainment - name: michiyo yagi - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - image: yagi michiyo playing koto.jpg - birth place: tokoname , aichi - associated acts: peter tamaya honda , dojo , hoahio , kokoo brotzmann , paal nilssen-love , akira sakata , Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michiyo yagi .
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, a japanese musician , studied koto under the late tadao sawai , kazue sawai and satomi kurauchi , and graduated from the nhk professional training school for traditional musicians .between 1989 and 1990 , during her tenure as visiting professor of music at wesleyan university in connecticut , u.s.a. , she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick american composers such as john cage , conlon nancarrow , and john zorn .her solo koto cd '' shizuku '' was produced by zorn and released on the tzadik label in 1999 .in 2001 she recorded '' yural '' with her koto ensemble paulownia crush for the east works label .under the auspices of the japan foundation , yagi toured russia with this ensemble in the fall of 2004 .an eclectic musician , yagi has frequently appeared on japanese tv and has performed at the moers jazz , festival international de musique actuelle de victoriaville , archipel , bang on a can , tokyo summer , vision , punkt , instal , and music unlimited festivals .yagi 's koto has been featured in ex-judy and mary guitarist/singer takuya 's rock band , and she has recorded and appeared onstage with ayumi hamasaki , one of japan 's best-selling pop singers .yagi was a founding member of the quartet koto vortex with fellow sawai apprentices yoko nishi , miki maruta and etsuko takezawa , as well as kokoo , a trio which performs originals and progressive rock covers exclusively on traditional japanese instruments .she was also one-third of the avant-pop girl group hoahio which recorded two cd 's for tzadik .yagi is one of the few improvising koto players on the international stage .she has performed with mark dresser , john zorn , peter brotzmann , elliott sharp , han bennink , akira sakata , kazuhisa uchihashi -lrb- altered states -rrb- , natsuki kido -lrb- bondage fruit -rrb- , fred frith , chris cutler , otomo yoshihide , saadet turkoz , ned rothenberg , hoppy kamiyama , samm bennett , yuji katsui -lrb- rovo -rrb- , lauren newton , hans reichel ,...