Events

2024

March 22, Friday 7:30 pm Organ Recital at Carmel Valley

March 24, Sunday 2:00 pm Wayfarer Chapel

UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara) Chamber Choir 
Brent Wilson, Director
Featuring works by Caroline Show, Ola Gjeilo, Allahrakka Rahman and George Ligeti

May 5,  Sunday Rio no Kai   1:oo pm

ShizuokaAOI Concert Hall 7F
Nokan Rio Tosha
Piano Emi Saeki

November 16, Saturday <Music Bridge>

Kawakami Cultural Hall, Nagano 
Clavichord, Antique piano, Modern piano : Emi Saeki
Shakuhachi (Bamboo Flute) : Bruce Huebner

November 24, Sunday <Fue no Sekai>

Ginza Oji Hall, Tokyo  
Nokan : Rio Tosha
Piano : Emi Saeki

2023

December 24, Sunday 7pm Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Church of the Wayfarer

December 10, Sunday 3pm A Little Christmas Cheer

stories, music, poems, and songs
Church of the Wayfarer

December 7, Friday 1pm, Clavichord Concert

Monterey Museum of Art 559 Pacific Street, Monterey
https://www.montereyart.org/visit/general-information/

November 18, Saturday 11am-3pm Holiday music by organ, Wayfarer Church, Carmel

November 4. Saturday 7:00 PM  Piano & Flute Concert, Carmel Valley

October 28 Sat 7:00 pm Carmel Valley Organ concert

October 5 Antique Piano at Bunka center, Kawakami 

October 4, organ lessons at Kawakami, Nagano

September 21 Thu 4:30 pm Del Mesa Piano Concert

September 10 Sun 2:00 pm Piano Recital Gustavo Romero

https://www.gustavoromero.com/

July 23 Sun 12:00 pm Sunset Center Carmel Bach Festival <Young Artists’ Showcase> 

Young Artists’ Showcase

July 23 Sun 10:00 am David Vanderwal, Tenor 

The Creation: In Native Worth   J.Haydn
Wayfaring Stranger    Sacred Harp
Down to the River to Pray   Jay Althouse

Church of the Wayfarer

July 16th  Sun 10:00 am Tim Krol, Bariton 

The Creation: Rolling in foaming billows J. Haydn
The Twenty-Third Psalm Albert Hay Malotte
“Gratias agimus tibi ” from BWV235 J.S.Bach

April 9 Sun 10:00am  Easter at Church of the Wayfarer

Canzona / Girolamo Frescobaldi 
Voluntary in D / G. F. Handel
Rejoice the Lord is King / G. F. Handel
Hallelujah! From <Messiah> / G. F. Handel

March 9 Sat 2:00pm International Women’s Day Concert 

Solmaaz Adeli / mezzo-soprano, Emi Saeki Wada / piano
Church of the Wayfarer, Carmel-by-the-Sea

January 29 Sun 2:00pm Dutch book and Piano concert

Lecturer/Etsuko Nozaka 
Pianist/Emi Saeki Wada
Miyoshi-city Public Hall

2022

KCV on Dec 20,24,25 & YKTV on Dec 22.

Carmel scene (CA), and the pipe organ (Church of the Wayfarer) performance were broadcasted on the Japanese TV station, KCV on Dec 20,24,25 & YKTV on Dec 22.

Dec 6 Tue 7:00pm Choir Christmas Concert 

Salinas High School

Dec 4 Sun 2:00pm CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Trumpet/Kevin Jordan  
Organ Piano/Emi Saeki Wada
Church of the Wayfarer, Carmel-by-the-Sea

Sep 15. 4:30pm 2022  BACH to BERNSTEIN  piano & trumpet

Trumpet/Kevin Jordan    
Piano/Emi Saeki Wada
Club House at Del Mesa, Carmel

July 31. 2022 Japan’s public broadcaster NHK Radio 1.  17:05~18:50 (Japan time) Composition by Emi Saeki.

NHK Radio 1.

July 23  Bach Festival Young Artists’ Showcase 2:30PM   Sunset Center Hall

Young Artists’ Showcase

July 3   Inducted as a resident organist & pianist of Church of the Wayfarer, Carmel-by-the-Sea

Church of the Wayfarer

May 1. 2022  PIANO performance at TOR HOUSE

Admission: $20 2-5pm   Garden Party

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APRIL 17, 2022  EASTER   9:45 am  Church in the Forest  Pebble Beach

Jubal Joslyn, tenor
Emi Saeki Wada,  organ & piano
WILDCOAST BRASS QUARTET
Kevin Jordan, trumpetAJ Wecker, trumpet
Ruth Jordan, horn
Steve Mortensen, trombone

POSTLUDE:  
Hallelujah Chorus (brass & organ) . . . G. F.

April 10, 2022   Palm Sunday  9:45 am  Church in the Forest  Pebble Beach

Emi Saeki Wada, piano & organ

Prelude:  Organ Sonata B flat    Felix Mendelssohn               
Andante religioso                    
Allegretto                            
Allgro maestoso e vivace

April 3 Sunday 9:45 am  Church in the Forest  Pebble Beach

Jubal Joslyn, tenor
Emi Saeki Wada, piano & organ

Prelude: 
1.Sea Fever . . . John Masefield/John Ireland      
2.Loveliest of Trees . . . A.E. Housman/George Butterworth      
3.Let Beauty Awake . . . R. L. Stevenson/Ralph Vaughan Williams
4.Silent Noon . . . D. G. Rossetti/R. Vaughan Williams (Songs of Travel)
5.Bright Is the Ring of Words . . . R. L. Stevenson/R. Vaughan Williams

2022.2.15   Pipe Organ Lecture   Nagano Kawakami Ongaku-do (Postponed)

J.S.Bach  ‘Fugue in G minor’  BWV578 



2021.December 11 Saturday & 12 Sunday  I Cantori de Carmel concert    
Carmel Mission Basilica

Program:
J.S.Bach Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Come now, Savior of the Gentiles)BWV61
W.A.Mozart Krönungsmesse(Coronation Mass)KV 317
F.Poulenc Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noel (Four Motets for Christmas)
www.icantori.org

2021. September 16, Thursday, 4:30 PM Piano Concert 
Redwood Hall, Carmel

J.P.Sweelinck, J.S.Bach, Liszt, Debussy, Gershwin 

2021. August 4, Friday,  4:00 PM The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Summer Clavichord Concert
TOR HOUSE, Carmel

Ticket : The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation
https://www.torhouse.org

2021.July 25, Sunday, 9:45 AM  Chapel Concertino
Church in the Forest, Pebble Beach

Soprano Akina Miyata    Organ & Piano Emi Saeki Wada

2021. July 18, Sunday, 9:45 AM  Chapel Concertino
Church in The Forest, Pebble Beach

J.S.Bach Italian Concerto  BWV971

2021.7.10  Clavichord Concert (Postponed)

Yatsugatake Murayama Salon

2021.7.7  Pipe Organ Lecture (Postponed)

Nagano Kawakami Junior High School

2021.7.4 Clavichord & Lute Duo Concert (Canceled)

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Järvi Hall, Koumi, Nagano 
Clavichord: Emi Saeki
Lute: Akiko Sato 

2020.12.14 Rio no Kai 

 Shibuya Densho Hall, Tokyo
<Impromptu for Nohkan and Piano>
Nohkan (Japanese traditional flute) Rio Tosha   
Piano Emi Saeki

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2020.10.25 PM2:00 Clavichord & Lute Duo Concert (postponed) 

Järvi Hall, Koumi, Nagano 
Clavichord: Emi Saeki
Lute: Akiko Sato 

2020.5.25 AM9:45~11:00   Chapel Concertino  (U.S.A) cancelled 

Church in the Forest, Pebble Beach, California (U.S.A.)  
Music program TBA (to be announced) 

2020.3.8 AM9:45~11:00   Chapel Concertino (U.S.A)

Church in the Forest, Pebble Beach, California (U.S.A.)  
Emi Saeki Wada, organ
Chorale   O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß
Prelude and Fuga F major BWV556 J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
Aria <Sebaldina> from Hexachordum Apollinis Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) 
Prelude E minor BWV555 J.S.Bach (1685-1750) 
Prelude B flat major BWV560 J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
Organ Improvisation Emi Wada
Panis Angelicus Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
Toccata and Fuga BWV565 J.S.Bach (1685-1750)

2020.1.12 AM10:00~11:00  Kawakami, Nagano

Organ lecture session 3  
<Organ Music II>

2019.12.22 10:30, 14:00 Kawakami, Nagano

10:30  Christmas Family Concert
14:00  Christmas Pipe Organ Concert
Kawakami, Nagano

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2019.9.15 AM9:45~11:00   Church in the Forest, Pebble Beach, California (U.S.A.)  

Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano
Emi Saeki Wada, organ
Chapel Concertino
Works of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Etude Nouvelle No. 1
Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2 
Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 
Etude Op. 25 No. 1
Interlude: Organ Improvisation 
Assurance . . . Phoebe P. Knapp (1839 –1908)        
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring . . . J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia in G major . . . J.S.Bach (1685-1750)