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Missa Johnouchi is an artist of many talents. Named the UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2006, the Japanese singer, composer, and pianist is a prolific performer who creates enchanting new age music infused with the unmistakable spirit of the Far East. Missa began composing music for various T.V. programs and theatrical releases while still a student at the Academic Institute of Music of Toho in Japan. This success led her to France where she became a protégé of legendary composer Jean-Claude Petit. To date, she has produced several albums and performed across the globe from the United States of America to China, Tunisia, Italy, Australia, Venezuela, Peru, Canada, Macedonia, Romania and France, among many others.

For her concert performance in the Kingdom of Bahrain she will take to the stage accompanied by the Bahrain Orchestra. The Bahrain Orchestra is a musical ensemble formed in 1998 for the purpose of developing the promising musical talents of Bahrainis and for the advancement of the nation’s cultural movement as a whole. The orchestra performed its first concert entitled Tajalliyat Sharqiya that same year.

In a very brief period of time the Bahrain Orchestra has built a loyal following  playing to packed venues in the Kingdom of Bahrain and abroad, including the 9th Arab Music Conference and Festival in Cairo in 2000. The success won the orchestra universal support from decision makers and fans and gave birth to a new generation of Bahraini musicians while raising the Kingdom of Bahrain’s profile as a center for art and culture.