LIFE / OUR ARCHIVE
A growing circle of co-creation around the world: performing with Sergio Baietta from the World Heritage city of Verona, Italy 🇮🇹!
Encounters with life, shared in many places.
Follow those moments through photographs and the words of the time.
Arts For Peace Project: Japan–Italy Collaborative Concert
Izumo Cultural Place Urarakan / Izumo, Shimane
A performance with Sergio Baietta.
Photographs and the original account ↓Photographs, and words from that time.
LIFE®︎ INOCHI / LIFE Art for Peace Project
From the sacred Japanese land of Izumo, we are beginning a journey out into the world.
Through LIFE, a circle of resonance is spreading across borders.
To mark this beginning,
from Verona, a World Heritage city in Italy 🇮🇹,
pianist Sergio Baietta is coming to Japan!
Together with Masahiko Hashimoto, director of LIFE®︎ INOCHI,
a Japan–Italy 🇯🇵×🇮🇹 collaborative concert will become a reality!
Sergio Baietta, who loves Japan,
was deeply moved by LIFE®︎ INOCHI.
His wish to help bring the LIFE project to others made this collaboration possible!
Since his first appearance in Japan with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
as a piano soloist,
Sergio Baietta has performed at Suntory Hall, the Italian Cultural Institute,
and regularly at venues across the country.
This program also offers a mindfulness experience led by Mikio Shishido,
who has organized the international Zen and mindfulness conference ZEN2.0!
An immersive program to connect with your inner core through the power of ART!
Join us in a space and time for reflecting on life.
Details and registration are here ✨
https://x.gd/XQWrr
đź’« Saturday, June 4, 2022
Izumo Cultural Place Urarakan
A LIFE®︎ INOCHI screening and LIFE concert
Morning program
LIFE®︎ INOCHI screening and a short live talk by director Hashimoto
Afternoon program
LIFE®︎ INOCHI screening & concert (Sergio Baietta × Masahiko Hashimoto)
Mindfulness experience (Mikio Shishido)
An immersive program to connect with your inner core!
Join us in a space and time for reflecting on life ✨
Details and registration are here ✨
https://x.gd/XQWrr
Performer Profiles
đź’« Masahiko Hashimoto
An artist whose voice touches the melodies of the heart,
and the director, writer, and composer of LIFE® INOCHI — Re-experience Birth.
To bring his abilities into society, he began “Concerts of the Heart,” healing concerts with the concept of “healing the heart and returning to love.” Mothers struggling with parenting spoke of how his singing brought tears naturally to their eyes, drawing attention and leading to a feature on NHK’s Asaichi.
In recognition of this work, he received the Youth Worker Supporter Award, presented to outstanding educators by the Japan Youth Leaders Association.
The song “Nukumori no Kioku” (Memories of Warmth), composed and sung by Masahiko Hashimoto, with lyrics by Masahiko Hashimoto and Sayaka Hashimoto,
was recognized as a Children’s Welfare Cultural Asset recommended by the Social Security Council of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The illustrated poetry book “Happy Birthday — What Our Encounters with Life Teach Us”
was published by Chuohoki Publishing, with poetry by Masahiko Hashimoto and Sayaka Hashimoto, illustrations and text by Yoh Shomei, and text by Masato Takeuchi, Akira Ikegawa, and Fumiko Inoue.
His works on the theme of love and life have been described as conveying a love that transcends life and death,
and his social activities have grown to include grief-care concerts at St. Luke’s International Hospital and Kurume University.
In 2018, seeking to bring the world together through love, he created the planetarium film “LIFE® INOCHI — Re-experience Birth in a Planetarium.”
Taking on the writing, direction, narration, and music, he expanded his artistic expression into film.
The film evokes a mother’s womb through the space of the planetarium dome,
bringing the connection between the universe and life together with the connection between mother and child, and tracing the vast journey of life.
By returning to the source of love and life, the work invites us to feel the wonder of being alive, here and now.
In 2020, the film was screened at the World Women’s Conference in India, hosted by Art of Living, where people from 158 countries
working to contribute to society came together. The screening received a standing ovation.
It was also selected for the IPS 2020 Conference, the world’s largest international planetarium conference, which selects only 20 works from around the world,
and for Europe’s largest FullDome Festival Brno in 2020 and 2021.
In 2020, as the age of AI approached, he established LIFE Education®︎, an educational program designed to help individuals realize their full potential.
Unconfined by any single form of expression, he continues to create work and activities that bring happiness to many people.
🎹 Sergio Baietta
A pianist, conductor and composer from Verona in northern Italy.
A teacher at an Italian state conservatory and director of the Master Orchestra.
His exceptional versatility spans Baroque and Romantic classical music, jazz and film music, earning the trust of people across many fields.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Arena di Verona Orchestra, the Teatro Olimpico Orchestra and the Chioggia Municipal Orchestra. He is also active as an accompanist for instrumentalists and singers; his acclaimed performance with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman remains a recent highlight.
His originality has been recognized in performances that interpret Michael Jackson and Queen in the style of Liszt and bring film scores together with classical masterpieces in his own arrangements. He has also been featured on NHK’s “Classic TV.”
He is one of the few Italian pianists to have performed at the Blue Note in New York, a celebrated home of jazz.
He has also appeared in films and television programs starring Il Volo.
Since his first appearance in Japan as the piano soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, he has visited more than ten times, performing regularly at Suntory Hall, the Italian Cultural Institute and venues around the country.
He made his Chinese debut as a conductor in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at Beijing Jiaotong University. At the Chinese government’s invitation, he made a special arrangement of the national anthem and performed it for a ceremony marking the “70th anniversary of communism,” receiving an enthusiastic response.
He later performed at the invitation of FC Barcelona during football’s Rakuten Cup.
He also has extensive specialist knowledge of the symbolic systems and history of tarot cards. His long friendships with film director A. Jodorowsky, writer Igor Sibaldi and G. Abbate, an authority on the study of immortality, have had a considerable influence on him.
In his piano concert “The Resonance of Tarot,” which began in Italy, he composes and performs therapeutic music for the allegorical image on each tarot card, attracting a strong response.
đź’« Mikio Shishido
Representative Director, ZEN2.0
President and Representative Director, Kamakura Mindfulness Lab Co., Ltd.
Director, 21st Century Learning Research Institute
Co-Representative, Ambitioners Lab
Graduate of the Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
Completed graduate studies at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo
After working at IBM Japan, he joined Alue Co., Ltd., a corporate training company, during its founding period. As the person responsible for establishing its instructor division, he worked across a broad range of corporate development programs, from global talent development for major companies to management and early-career training. After becoming independent, he served as a director of Innocentive Inc. before founding Kamakura Mindfulness Lab Co., Ltd., where he became President and Representative Director.
He now works in organizational and talent development for companies, while also planning and producing learning experiences in Kamakura that help individuals explore their potential.