Eva Alkula and Tomoya Nakai – A genuine interest in someone else’s culture is the best starting point for collaboration
Eva Alkula and Tomoya Nakai – A genuine interest in someone else’s culture is the best starting point for collaboration
As the saying goes, “sometimes you have to travel far to see what is near”. Finnish kantele artist Eva Alkula and Japanese koto artist Tomoya Nakai have performed as a duo for nearly two decades. Their collaboration crystallises each artist’s identity as a musician and enables the birth of something new. The unique union of the distinct timbres of the kantele and the koto is “a match made in heaven”, even if the physical distance between Tokyo and Tampere remains 7,843 kilometres.
