Stanford Taiko
A dramatic performance ensemble with roots in Japanese folk drumming fused with musical and cultural influences from North America, Stanford Taiko is recognized as the leading collegiate taiko group in North America. For 15 years, Stanford Taiko has mesmerized audiences and has made impacting contributions to North American Taiko. An ensemble of 16-18 members with an all-original repertoire and the sponsorship of the Stanford University Department of Music, the group not only supports the campus arts community with numerous performances at major university events, but has also toured both domestically and internationally and performed to enthusiastic audiences around the world. Stanford Taiko has toured twice to both Japan and Thailand, including critically acclaimed performances at Thailand’s National Theatre, participated by invitation at an intensive drum-building residency workshop hosted by Zenshin Daiko in Hawai‘i, has toured to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, and is the only collegiate ensemble ever invited to perform at Taiko Jam, the major concert at the biennial North American Taiko Conference. Stanford Taiko has also studied with many of the leading master teachers in taiko both in Japan and North America, including Eitetsu Hayashi, Kiyonari Tosha, and Kenny Endo.

The Stanford Chamber Chorale
The Stanford Chamber Chorale is Stanford University's most select choir and comprises 24 voices drawn from both graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University. Hailing from across the United States and around the world, these singers represent a broad range of academic disciplines and degree programs. As members of the Chamber Chorale, these Stanford students meet a demanding schedule of performing, touring, and recording while maintaining their rigorous academic programs.

Over the years, the Chorale has toured in the United States, Japan, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy and France, and has appeared in a notable list of venues, including the great British cathedrals in Ely, Llandaff (Cardiff), Lincoln, Salisbury, Wells, and York, at the great parish churches Romsey Abbey, and St. Mary Redcliffe (Bristol), and at Trinity College Chapel (Cambridge), New College Chapel (Oxford), Magdalen College Chapel, (Oxford), the Berlin Philharmonie, Rikkyo University Chapel (Japan), Hakodate Geijutsu Hall (Japan), Kitahiroshima-shi Geijutsu Bunka Hall (Japan), Benaroya Music Center (Seattle), BBC Radio, the National Television of Austria, and the Armed Forces Television Network.

Through its recordings and tours, the Chorale continues to gain recognition in the international choral community. Dr. John Bertalot, Choirmaster Emeritus at England's Blackburn Cathedral, praised the Chorale's performance on its CD Voices of Christmas as "a tour de force of choral technique [that] gives me unbounded delight." The Chorale's recent and upcoming touring activities that include: Japan, 2001; Pacific Northwest and Canada, 2002; England and Wales, 2003; Hawai'i, 2004; Germany and Austria, 2005; Los Angeles and Southern California, 2006; Seattle and England, 2007; China, 2008: Hawai'i, 2009; and Australia and New Zealand (2010) continue to heighten the visibility of both the ensemble and Stanford University's commitment to music performance and the arts.