In Japan, because there is only a handful of professional wind band, if you want to succeed, it is essential to promote to amateur band.
Who is promote your works in Japan? Mainly magazines, retail stores, news sites and leaders (contains advisers, instructors). News site is equal to the almost non-existent. Also other media, it is not much to actively promote the work of overseas. Because resources for the promotion is poured into the domestic goods. Most expected to be would be leaders that has attracted the information little by little from such media. It has a little with the influential retailers are dealing overseas products to the main.
Amateur bands of Japan do not have enough to time and money. Professional bands also are struggling to attract customers. As a result, it is biased to Japanese works and classic works that is easily attract customers or is easily to get scores. But even in the overseas work, if it is played in the All-Japan Band Competition, the next few years there is a tendency that many bands to play. And there are also bands to take up works that new and not so much playing dare.
Anyway, because such a situation, it is essential to carry out a promotion on your own. It is a good idea to become friends with Japanese composers and leaders who are familiar with the site of Japanese amateur bands. Trying to share the information and to interact with them.
Because many of the Japanese is not good at English, try to create a Facebook page or You Tube channel for promotion to upload video and audio. I also introducing the You Tube videos of favorite works from the new works of overseas almost daily in my other blog that is for the Japanese. Such a person would have to the other. Trying to promote the new video and sound also use Twitter as well as Facebook.
text. Shuhei Umemoto (Thank you, Google translation)
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