Izumi Fujiyama

Welcome back to the Fujiyama Clarinet Studio Blog. We are located in Yanai, Yamaguchi, Japan, providing bilingual lessons both at studio and online. On January 15th, I held the first online breathing workshop via Zoom. Participants Students who had started the breathing training challenge joined the session. Some participants were only two weeks into their training, creating an enthusiastic atmosphere from the start. Being held online, participants from distant locations could easily join,...

What a 2-Hour Journey Connects: Passion for Clarinet Lessons 2026—a new year has begun. Thank you for your continued support. Recently, watching a student travel two hours by train for clarinet lessons brought back my memory. Their earnest dedication to professional clarinet instruction overlapped with my own past. High School Memories: My Clarinet Lesson Journey Senior year, when I finally decided to pursue music for university entrance exams, I began lessons with Professor Yukio Ohashi....

Yamaguchi-based Fujiyama Clarinet Studio  in Yanai specializes in clarinet lessons for adults. In this blog, I’d like to share highlights from a November lesson with an adult student, using Boccherini’s “Minuet”  and Yukiko Nishimura’s “Smiley Moon”  as our main examples. If you are aiming for ABRSM Grade 3  or coming back to the clarinet as an adult, I hope you find some practical ideas here. What We Learn from Boccherini’s “Minuet” Boccherini was an Italian composer of the Classical period,...