CALENDAR

Sep
26
Sun
2021
Duo YUMENO concert @ First Congregational Church of Camden, ME
Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm

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.

Oct
12
Tue
2021
INTERWOVEN: Inaugural Concert
– Koto concerto: Genji – @ The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (Mary Flagler Cary Hall)
Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

 

【Program】
Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio
Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonate a Quattro
Caroline Shaw: “Punctum”
Eun Young Lee: Bagooni (New York premiere)
Daron Hagen: Koto Concerto “Genji” (New York premiere of 13-string koto version)

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.

Oct
17
Sun
2021
Autumn Dream
– Arts At Tenri Series – @ Tenri Cultural Institute of NY, NY
Oct 17 @ 4:00 pm

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.

Nov
21
Sun
2021
Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 21 【IN-PERSON LIVE】 @ Center for Remembering and Sharing, White Room
Nov 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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.

 

Nov
28
Sun
2021
Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 21 【ONLINE】 @ Online concert
Nov 28 @ 8:00 pm – Dec 2 @ 11:30 pm

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).

Dec
9
Thu
2021
Japan America Society of Chicago @ Online
Dec 9 @ 5:20 pm

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.

Jan
20
Thu
2022
Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi @ The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm

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.

Jan
21
Fri
2022
Basil Twist : Dogugaeshi @ The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Jan 21 @ 7:30 pm

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.

Jan
22
Sat
2022
Basil Twist : Dogugaeshi @ The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm

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. 

Jan
23
Sun
2022
Basil Twist : Dogugaeshi @ The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Jan 23 @ 1:00 pm

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. 

Jan
24
Mon
2022
Basil Twist : Dogugaeshi @ The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Jan 24 @ 7:00 pm

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.

Jan
27
Thu
2022
Shamisen demonstration @ Blue Mountain Middle School, NY
Jan 27 all-day

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.

Feb
13
Sun
2022
Four Seasons in New York
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 22 【In-person Live】 @ Center for Remembering and Sharing, White Room
Feb 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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.

Feb
18
Fri
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 18 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
19
Sat
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 19 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
22
Tue
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 22 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
23
Wed
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 23 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
24
Thu
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 24 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
25
Fri
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 25 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
26
Sat
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Feb 26 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Feb
27
Sun
2022
Four Seasons in New York
– Gems of Japanese Music – vol. 22 【Online】 @ Online
Feb 27 @ 8:00 pm – Mar 3 @ 11:30 pm

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.

Mar
1
Tue
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Mar 1 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Mar
2
Wed
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Mar 2 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Mar
3
Thu
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Mar 3 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Mar
4
Fri
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Mar 4 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Mar
5
Sat
2022
Rashaad Newsome: ASSEMBLY @ Park Avenue Armory, Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Mar 5 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Mar
12
Sat
2022
Crossing Boundaries concert series vol. 16
– FOCUSING ON HER – @ Tenri Cultural Institute of NY
Mar 12 @ 7:00 pm

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.

Mar
17
Thu
2022
Afterimage
19th and 21st Century Masterpieces for Silk and Bamboo @ Clearlight Performance Space at Blue Building, NYC
Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm

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.

[Program]

・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.

Apr
1
Fri
2022
Koto lecture & demonstration – online – @ Long School of Music of Bard College
Apr 1 @ 3:00 pm

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.

Apr
3
Sun
2022
Between the Bars | New Asia Chamber Music Society @ Linc LIC11101
Apr 3 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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.