The 2021-2022 season of Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music – will begin live concert as well as online streaming. Online streaming will be premiered on Sunday, November 28th, 8:00 pm (EST) through Thursday, December 2nd, 11:30 pm.
【Program】
Nasuno – Fire Fox – (composed by Yamada-kengyo)
Meikyo for shamisen and shakuhachi (composed by Seiho Kineya)
Koto-Uta (composed by Toshio Hosokawa)
【Performers】
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto, shamisen
James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi (special guest)
【Tickets】
$20 (including handling fee)
For purchasing the ticket, please visit here (Eventbrite).
Duo YUMENO will join the 35th Annual Holiday Fundraiser and Bonekai presented by Japan America Society of Chicago. This online will be held via Zoom.
This performance will be postponed to 2023 due to the COVID situation. Master puppeteer Basil Twist, recipient of the Rome Prize, hailed for his work on Broadway’s The Addams Family and The Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker, unfolds an intimate, abstract, contemporary journey of images and emotions in Dogugaeshi. The piece is influenced by the rarefied tradition of Japanese dogugaeshi stage mechanism technique and his own encounters with the remaining rural caretakers of this once popular art form. Winner of the 2005 Bessie Award and an UNIMA Award for Excellence in Puppetry, Dogugaeshi features original shamisen compositions created by authorized master musician Yumiko Tanaka and performed live by the highly accomplished, distinguished virtuoso of Japanese koto and shamisen in both traditional and contemporary music: Yoko Reikano Kimura.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will appear at Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi as the shamisen and koto performer. For the details about the performance, please visit here.
This performance will be postponed to 2023 due to the Covid situation.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will appear at Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi as the shamisen and koto performer. For the details about the performance, please visit here. There will be three performances on Saturday, January 22nd, and each performance will start at 1:00 pm, 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm.
This performance will be postponed to 2023 due to the COVID situation.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will appear at Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi as the shamisen and koto performer. For the details about the performance, please visit here. There will be two performances on Sunday, January 23rd, and each performance will start at 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
This performance will be postponed to 2023 due to the COVID situation.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will appear at Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi as the shamisen and koto performer. For the details about the performance, please visit here.
This performance will be postponed to 2023 due to the COVID situation.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will give a lecture demonstration of shamisen’s history and structure including short performances. This event is not open to the public.
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 22 【In-person Live】 @ Center for Remembering and Sharing, White Room
The 2021-2022 season’s Winter program will be presented as both in-person concert and online streaming. For the details about of this concert series, please visit at here.
The online program will be streaming online on Sunday, February 27th, 8:00 pm (EST) through Thursday, March 3rd, 11:30 pm.
【Program】
Suma no Arashi – Storm in Suma – (composed by Manwa Yamato)
Shinsen-cho for solo sangen (composed by Kin’ichi Nakanoshima) *The US Premiere
and more.
【Performers】
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto, shamisen
Kaoru Watanabe, fue, taiko (special guest)
【Tickets】
$30 (The ticket holders of this in-person concert will have access to the online streaming program.)
*The seats for in-person concert are limited, so please make reservation in advance.
【Tickets reservation】
E-mail: info@yokoreikanokimura.com
*Please include your name and the number of tickets you wish to purchase.
*Payment will be at Center for Remembering and Sharing. (Cash only)
【About the safety protocol】
* Our top priority is the health and safety of the CRS audiences, artists, and staff. The key to NYC policy requires that all visitors show proof of full vaccination and photo ID to be admitted. Due to the current rapid spread of Omicron and the intimate nature of this concert, we are also requiring that audience members attending this event show proof of having received a booster shot and wear a mask at all times. Thank you for your kind understanding and corporation.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 22 【Online】 @ Online
The Winter program of 2021-2022 season will be online streaming as well as a live performance. For the details about this concert series, please visit here.
Online streaming will be premiered on Sunday, February 27, 8:00 pm (EST) through Thursday, March 3rd, 11:30 pm.
【Program】
Hachidan no Shirabe (composed by Yatsuhashi-kengyo)
Suma no Arashi – Strom in Suma – (composed by Manwa Yamato)
【Performers】
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto, shamisen
Kaoru Watanabe, fue, taiko (special guest)
【Tickets】
$20 (including handling fee)
Tickets available at Eventbrite.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
The Park Avenue Armory’s 2022 Wade Thompson Drill Hall programming begins in February with Assembly, a multifaceted commission by interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. Newsome’s residency is a communion of multiple art forms spanning the artist’s work for over a decade, including artificial intelligence, sculpture, CGI, assemblage, and holography. For the detailed information, please visit here.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will join this unique program as the shamisen performer.
– FOCUSING ON HER – @ Tenri Cultural Institute of NY
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Tenri Cultural Institute present Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 16: FOCUSING ON HER on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 7 pm at Tenri Cultural Institute. Curated by multi-Instrumentalist gamin, this fifth season of Crossing Boundaries consists of three concerts exploring the theme of WOMEN IN MUSIC performed by female and female-identifying musicians. Following the performance there will be a conversation with the audience about the concert and the theme of gender liberation in the music industry.
FOCUSING ON HER features three female musicians — Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American, voice/saxophone), Yoko Reikano Kimura (Japan, shamisen), and gamin (Korea, saenghwang) — improvising and performing music by female composers: Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American), Yoko Sato (Japan), and Yoon-Ji Lee(Korea), with visual projection designed by Bang Geul Han (Korea). Each of the compositions is a prayer or elegy for those who endure or have endured trauma. For more detailed information, please visit Eventbrite page.
19th and 21st Century Masterpieces for Silk and Bamboo @ Clearlight Performance Space at Blue Building, NYC
Live music is back! Four outstanding and influential performers of Japanese music offer this special concert highlighting an arc of brilliant compositions ranging from the golden classical era of Edo Period Japan to the vibrant contemporary musical life of New York. Two masterworks of Yamada-kengyō (1757-1815), founder of the Yamada School of koto and one of the most revered composers of classical Japanese music, will be paired with two magnificent contemporary works by New York composers Ned Rothenberg and Elizabeth Brown.
・Yuya (by Yamada-kengyō) koto, Yoko Reikano Kimura / shakuhachi, Ralph Samuelson
・Sakuragari (by Yamada-kengyō) koto, Yoko Reikano Kimura / sangen, Sumie Kaneko / shakuhachi, Elizabeth Brown
・Naki Tokoro Nite(by Ned Rothenberg) shamisen, Sumie Kaneko / shakuhachi, Ralph Samuelson
・Afterimage（by Elizabeth Brown）shamisen, Yoko Reikano Kimura /shakuhachi, Elizabeth Brown
*Certification of Covid-19 vaccination (two or more doses), with matching photo ID, is required for entry. Valid forms of certification include vaccination card, NYS Excelsior Pass, and NYC COVID Safe app. All guests must wear a face mask.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will talk about koto, its history and great works written for this Japan’s national instrument. This event is not open to public.
Yoko Reikano Kimura will talk about the history of koto and the beauty behind it. Please join us on Sunday afternoon of April 3rd for our coming-back Between the Bars featuring the NYC skyline.
*Please note that this is a RSVP only event.
2022 Inaugural Asian Classical Music Initiative International Conference @ University of Kansas, Swarthout Recital Hall
As the koto performer of INTERWOVEN, Yoko Reikano Kimura will perform Koto concerto: Genji (by Daron Hagen) at the closing concert of 2022 Inaugural Asian Classical Music Initiative International Conference.
Michio Miyagi: Haru no Umi – The Sea in Spring – for koto and violin (1929)
Tianhua Liu and Yaoxing Chen: Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio
James Ra: Four Dialogues for Sting Quartet (2007)
Nathan Schram: Woljeongsa for String Quartet (2015)
Daron Hagen: Koto concerto: Genji (2010)
Sold-out
New York’s music scene reflects the diverse and vibrant culture of the city. Yoko Reikano Kimura began “Four Seasons in New York” concert series in the fall of 2015. As a Japanese instrumentalist, Kimura hopes to introduce the brilliance of traditional Japanese music, which is still being passed on to future generations after many centuries. Since the first concert, over 50 works from the classical repertoire have been introduced in the concert series. Please come and experience the sounds of Japanese Music!
This spring concert will be held only in-person live. Special guest, Ralph Samuelson (kinko-style shakuhachi performer) will join the concert.
【Program】
Haru no Uta – Song of Spring – (composed by Kin’ichi Nakanoshima)
Yuya (composed by Yamada-kengyo)
【Performers】
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto
Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi (special guest)
【Tickets】
$35 (including wagashi sweets prepare by mochi-Rin)
*The seats are limited, so please make reservation in advance.
【Tickets reservation】
E-mail: info@yokoreikanokimura.com
*Please include your name and the number of tickets you wish to purchase.
*Payment will be at Center for Remembering and Sharing. (Cash only)
【About the safety protocol】
* Our top priority is the health and safety of the CRS audiences, artists, and staff. The key to NYC policy requires that all visitors show proof of full vaccination and photo ID to be admitted. Due to the current rapid spread of Omicron and the intimate nature of this concert, we are also requiring that audience members attending this event show proof of having received a booster shot and wear a mask at all times. Thank you for your kind understanding and corporation.
Duo YUMENO will perform their repertoires at historic Green-Wood’s Hanami Festival.New Asia Chamber Music Society: Salon Concert @ Norikoh
As the koto soloist, Yoko Reikano Kimura will perform Koto Concerto: Genji (by Daron Hagen) at the Salon Concert Series presented by New Asia Chamber Music Society.