MY MOTTO 

I always try to achieve the things I feel I should achieve. I do what I think is right, even if the people around me don’t agree. I just have to keep believing to achieve my mission, even if I feel alone. 

I believe anything of value that I have comes from my job, education, family and friends. The value came mainly from overcoming my mistakes. I can keep myself okay, because I know sometimes I feel embarrassed by mistakes, jealous of others, and despair from my troubles....  

We are not perfect. We sometimes feel pleased by someone else’s unhappiness, taking advantage of someone else’s bad situation. In terms of understanding human beings, I try to thinking of someone who I really, really respect and avoid self-pity. 

HOW I KEEP GOING 

Always, I have to get through some obstacle. In fact, I can't move on without overcoming obstacles. But more importantly, at least I try to keep minimum motivation. If you lose motivation, you have no power to move on. And it's not easy to maintain the energy for that. My point is not to give myself too much pressure. It's the same for education. If you like something and you're good at, then having to keep the same A average every time makes you annoyed and lose your motivation. If you can give up because of that, that's probably not what you really like to do. Just taking a break and not thinking too much is the key to continuing my favorite things when I start to feel pressure. And I always try to keep an open mind. 

MY DREAM 

What I want to do/express/perform in my work is touch someone's feelings, and spread that to more people, and finally contribute to society. I can’t say that I'm creating for everyone. But I believe I’m doing the right thing. To achieve my goal, I always try to catch up with the way we in society are living nowadays in the world, to know more about people, us and me.

ABOUT MY NAME TETSURO HOSHII

The pronunciation is “TET-soo-roh HOH-shee”

Pronouncing my name may be giving you a hard time.

HERE IS MY COLLECTION OF MISSPELLINGS AT COFFEESHOPS!

Tetsuro(哲郎) means: Tetsu哲=Philosophy, Ro郎＝Man

Hoshii(星井) means: Hoshi (星)=Star, I = A Well

So, it sounds like: A philosopher stands next to a well on the star. Sounds something like The Little Prince, I think. However in reality, though, my parents named me for a popular Japanese manga called Galaxy Express 999 by Leiji Matsumoto. The main character's name is Tetsuro Hoshino (星野鉄郎).

In conclusion, please try to say my name. If you think it’s too difficult, just say, "Tootsie Roll”. Because “Tetsuro" sounds like "Tootsie Roll".

40 years of ambitious life, 7 years of our friendship. Joy was my best friend and we shared so many great memories and inspiration together. Here is my story about Joy.

I studied music from the age 3 until 27. And I became a pianist and composer. I had several musical projects with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's chamber group between 2011-2014 and performed with my own band "Dizz Band" (2005-2009), "Starfall Orchestra" (2007-2009) and "The Doggy Cats" (2015-2020). Mostly performed in Tokyo, Boston and New York. Lately I focus on small formations or solo improvisation that makes me a little loose from the stress of leadershipping.

You can listen my music here

ARTICLES

We were coffee buddies. Here is the story abobut my friendship with Ron.

Memory of Ron Gorchov

Memory of Joy Setton

Memory of Ebisu Tenmado Switch

My favorite venue to perform in Tokyo finally closed for good in 2021. Here is some pictures and my projects.

US OPEN CEREMONY 2023

John Sheppard and my musical arrangement "America the Beautiful" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was performed at the US OPEN final ceremony by Will Liverman, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra on September 10th.

NEW YORK MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY FILM FEST

I composed music "Mushroom's Holiday" for New York Mycological Society's mushroom film festival on October 1st. Iworked on the combination of mushroom (Reishi) pulse and some piano/electric sound.

https://newyorkmyc.org/myco-film-festival/