New website: Duo YUMENO

Duo YUMENO is happy to announce the renewal of our website! You can see all contents in both English and Japanese. The photo on the top page was taken by an award-winning photographer, Kasia Idzkowska. Please visit Duo YUMENO’s new website.  (May 12, 2023)

Serbia Tour finished!

Yoko Reikano Kimura gave the Europe premiere performance of Aleksandra Vrebalove’s “Four Ethereal Pieces” and James Nyoraku Schlefer’s “Concertante” with Symphony Orchestra of Academy of the Arts Novi Sad. This special event was presented by Academy of the Arts and Kyo-Shin-An Arts. (April 15, 2023) 

May 9, 2022 / The Iroha

The IROHA is a monthly digital magazine that features Japanese leaders who are active in the field of global affairs, media, business, culture, food, design, art, music, film, fashion and architecture in North America. → Yoko’s interview: Consensus Through Music 

Kimura’s extensive interview on The IROHA!

Yoko Reikano Kimura is featured on The Iroha. The IROHA is a monthly digital magazine that features Japanese leaders who are active in the field of global affairs, media, business, culture, food, design, art, music, film, fashion and architecture in North America. Please enjoy Yoko’s interview here. 

Sep 5, 2022 / New York Classical Review

…Miura’s Three Poems was written expressly for Duo Yumeno … who premiered the work. This was spare, delicate, focused playing, each gesture full of surprise and drama. The music was graceful and exacting, the musicians careful with space and matching intonation to perfection, the better to pull the most scintillating sensations out of Miura’s microtonal passages. The composition and playing were impressive for how the dry timbres of the instruments, and Kimura’s traditional-style singing, expanded into an evocative and aptly dreamy atmosphere. – Three Poems from Kanginshu (composed by Hiroya Miura, commissioned by Duo YUMENO 2022) –  Here and Now Festival serves up five world premieres to raunch the fall Read More …

New York Classical Review | Duo YUMENO

Duo YUMENO’s performance at Here and Now Labor Day Festival is featured on New York Classical Review. Duo YUMENO gave the world premiere performance of “Three Poems from Kanginshu” (for shamisen, voice and cello) composed by Hiroya Miura. (9/5/22)

Kimura’s Interview

Kimura’s extensive interview is featured on the column, Atarashii “Hogaku” (New direction for Japanese instruments) on Japan’s NPO, Ongaku Bunka Souzou. This article is written in Japanese. (August/22)