I’ve been invited to perform and teach at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2018 in London, July 31-August 4. I’ll premiere Dialect, for solo shakuhachi (you can see a video of it here), and give a workshop on Loons, from my Isle Royale Shakuhachi Solos. Great players from every shakuhachi lineage are coming to the festival, and it’s sure to be wonderfully …
hope in one glance 一望
shamisen/voice and cello (2017) duration: 7.5′ Texts by Nobuko Kato and Keiko Hangui, from Voices from Japan* program note Hope in one glance was commissioned by Duo Yumeno (Yoko Reikano Kimura, shamisen and voice; Hikaru Tamaki, cello) who premiered it on January 5, 2018, at Bargemusic in Brooklyn, New York. It is inspired by tanka written by survivors of the …
Shakuhachi and Ichigenkin: Discovery in a Single Tone – U.S. tour, September 28-October 21, 2017
Elizabeth Brown and Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi Issui Minegishi, ichigenkin (one-string koto) After touring Japan in recent years, we’re excited to bring our music to the United States. We’ll give concerts, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations across the country. Concert Schedule 9/28 at 8 pm: Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University. Free. 10/2 at …
Just Visible in the Distance
Please check out NewMusicUSA’S blog – THE MOMENTA QUARTET: A PROLIFIC 2014-2015 SEASON includes a video of the quartet performing Just Visible in the Distance, one of many pieces I’ve written for them. I’m one of dozens of composers they champion. https://www.newmusicusa.org/the-momenta-quartet-highlights-a-prolific-2014-15-season/
Japan Tour – Fall 2015
Between September 24 and October 21, I’ll join my mentor Ralph Samuelson for concerts in Japan – at a Buddhist temple and National Heritage site in Yokohama, at a shrine near Mount Fuji surrounded by 1200-year-old cedars, at a gallery in Sumida, and on a boat in Kyoto. We also have two concerts in Iwate prefecture, which was hit hard …