43A West 13th Street
New York
NY 10011
This concert was postponed, but Duo YUMENO will post the new dates when it is ready, so pleas stay tune.
Duo YUMENO (Yoko Reikano Kimura, Japanese koto and Hikaru Tamaki, cello) will perform Heike Quarto, a four-piece suite composed by Daron Hagen – one of the most prominent American opera composers – that was commissioned by the duo between 2015 and 2018. This concert will be the first opportunity to hear the entire suite in a live concert setting.
The cycle was inspired by The Tale of Heike, an epic account of the struggle between two warrior clans in medieval Japan, and seamlessly integrates idioms of both traditional Japanese and Western classical music.
“Played with precision and deep feeling by the duo… the piece was a gripping, gorgeous narrative of the life of a woman in 12th-century Japan. Full of idiomatic flavor, it made compelling use of the techniques of the Western classical tradition, especially polyphony and formal design. Most impressive was how the music told a clear, succinct, and unsentimental story using vocal sounds without texts.”– New York Classical Review on Heike Quarto