Duo YUMENO will be featured at New Year’s Day event hosted by New York Buddhist Church. Wishing you all a healthy and happy 2021!
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 19 Winter @ Online
Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music – is a concert series presented by Yoko Reikano Kimura and Center for Remembering and Sharing (CRS); supported by Mar Creation.
This concert will be the 19th concert of this series. For more details about this series, please visit here. Kimura will perform “Shunkyō for two shamisens” by Seihō Kineya, “Shōjō no Tsuru – Crane on the Pine Tree -” by Manwa Yamato and a contemporary piece, “Mutsura-boshi – Pleiades -” with special guest, Hikaru Tamaki (cello). For this online concert, Kimura will perform both the main and the accompaniment parts. Let’s celebrate New Year and beautiful winter season!
– For tickets information, please visit here.
– This online concert will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 20th, 8:00 pm through Sunday, January 31st, 9:00 pm. Ticket holders will have access to the video link until Sunday, January 31st, 9:00 pm. Tickets are non-refundable.
Kimura will join “Winter Calm” concert pretend by Kyo-Shin-An Arts. For this concert, Kimura will perform “Miyako no Haru – Spring in Kyoto” by Shoin Yamase, “Yachiyo-jihi”, “Hana-kazarashi for jiuta shamisens” by Seiho Kineya and more. More details and tickets information will be followed.
This concert was postponed to July 11th, 2021.
Kimura will be thrilled to perform with Cassatt String Quartet for Kyo-Shin-An Arts’ 10th anniversary septet project. For this concert, Kimura will play shamisen for the premier works, “Spring Butterfly” by Yoko Sato and “Kammerrakku Dances” by James Matheson. For more detail information will be announced soon.
Journey to Japan
Shinobue flutist and taiko drummer Kaoru Watanabe and koto and shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura take kids on an adventure through the rich history of Japanese music and culture. The concert is also a part of our Kids to Concerts program lineup for April that will be sent online to over 200 participating schools. Register at this page.
*This online event will start at 12:00 pm (CST).
Cantabile Kojimachi 10th Anniversary Concert – Koto and String Quartet Special Concert @ 大和田伝承ホール Densho Hall, Shibuya Cultural Center Owada, Tokyo
カンタービレこうじまち10周年記念コンサート：箏と弦楽四重奏の夕べ ~ ニューヨーク在住の箏奏者、木村伶香能と新日本フィルメンバーによる弦楽四重奏との共演。アメリカの代表的なオペラ作曲家ダロン・ハーゲンによる箏コンチェルト『源氏』の日本初演、ならびにボロディン作曲「弦楽四重奏第2番」をお届けします。
【新型コロナウイルスの感染対策の都合上、予約制となっております。】
出演：木村伶香能（箏）、田村安紗美（ヴァイオリン）、竹中勇人（ヴァイオリン）、脇屋冴子（ヴィオラ）、飯島哲蔵（チェロ）
主催：カンタービレこうじまち 後援：（公財）日本伝統文化振興財団 / 邦楽ジャーナル
Cantabile Koji-machi’s 10th Anniversary Special Concert. Kimura will give the Japan Premiere performance of Koto Concerto: GENJI composed by Daron Hagen. This concert will be presented by Cantabile Koji-machi.
デュオ夢乃が、ムジークフェストなら2021に出演します。奈良の名刹、長谷寺でのコンサート。要申込（4月24日まで。お申し込みはこちらのリンクより。）花の御寺として知られる長谷寺での演奏をお楽しみ下さい。
Duo YUMENO will return to Musikfest Nara. This year duo will have a concert at Hasedera-Temple, Nara.
Duo YUMENO Recital, 2021 Japan Tour @ 所沢市立松井まちづくりセンター Tokorozawa-city Matsui Civic hall
松井クラシックのつどい第343回定期演奏会にデュオ夢乃が出演いたします。音響の素晴らしい松井クラシックで、デュオ委嘱作品やソロ作品をお楽しみ下さい。
Duo YUMENO will perform at the 343rd concert of the renowned concert series, “Matsui Classic”. Duo will perform their commission pieces as well as solo pieces.
Recording another video for a broadcast premiere – and crossing our fingers for a limited live audience. Premiering two new works for string quartet with koto, shamisen and shakuhachi, representing the second half of KSA’s delayed 10th Anniversary Septet project. Kammerraku Dances by James Matheson and Spring Butterfly by Yoko Sato. More details to be followed.
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 20 @ Online concert
Four Seasons in New York – Gem of Japanese Music– vol. 20 will be held on Saturday, August 28th, 8:00 pm (EDT) through Tuesday, August 31st, 11:30 pm (EDT).
【Program】
Ishiyama Genji – Jo [part 1] – (composed by Chiyoda-kengyo)
Kaze no Satouta – Singing in the Wind for violin and koto – (composed by Jiro Censhu)
【Special guests】
Introductory remarks by Dr. Melissa McCormick (Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University)
Keiko Tokunaga, (Viloin, Winner of the 2019 Grammy Awards)
【Tickets】 For purchasing tickets, please visit here (Eventbrite).
As the shamisen player, Kimura will be joining to “Kammerraku Rebirth” concert presented by Kyo-Shin-An Arts and Arts at Tenri. For this online concert, two new septet pieces commissioned by Kyo-Shin-An Arts – Kammerraku Dances by James Matheson and Spring Butterfly by Yoko Sato – will be premiered. Tickets are $5 and up. For the ticket information and more details about the concert, please visit this link.
Duo YUMENO will return to the Camden UCC’s Friends of Music concert series as live performance. Duo YUMENO will perform their commission pieces and each solo pieces including the US premiere performance of “Mosaic for koto and cello” composed by Yutaka Makino.
– Koto concerto: Genji – @ The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (Mary Flagler Cary Hall)
INTERWOVEN is a string ensemble that integrates the sounds of the East and West, as well as the Old and New. The program will be versatile reflecting the ensemble’s goal.
For this inaugural concert, Kimura will give the New York premiere performance of Koto Concerto: Genji (13-string koto version) composed by Daron Hagen.
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
【Performers】
Keiko Tokunaga & Alex Fortes, Violins
Andy Lin & Kyle Miller, Violas
Ana Kim & Hikaru Tamaki, Celli
gamin, piri
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto
Andy Lin, earhu
This concert is funded by City Artists Corps Grant.
Duo YUMENO will return to Arts at Tenri concert series presented by Kyo-Shin-An Arts. This live concert program will be diverse including two New York premiere – “Dream Waves” by James Nyoraku Schlefer and “Mosaic for koto and cello” by Yutaka Makino.
All tickets holders must be fully vaccinated and wear masks at the performance. Proof of vaccination will be required. Sadly, we are unable to accommodate children under 12.
The 2021-2022 season of “Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music –” will begin live concert. This autumn program will be streaming online 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】
$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)
*Face covering and vaccination ID are required. Thank you for your cooperation.
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.