Yumi Kurosawa was born and raised in a traditional Japanese music environment, taking up the koto from a young age and rising fast to the upper echelons of her craft. For this trio, Yumi is joined by violinist Naho Parrini and percussionist Yousif Sheronick. The program features exhilarating new compositions from Yumi alongside striking reinterpretations of favorites from her oeuvre, highlighting the shared affinity between these seemingly disparate instruments.
The Josephine Chidsey Williams Fund Performance
Traditional Japanese musical roots, Middle Eastern sounds, and contemporary instrumentals were living influences.
Mystical, lingering passages interchange with adrenalizing climbs and flurries...
Kurosawa is a one-woman orchestra with her thickets of circling, wavelike phrases underpinning an incisive melody that she drives to a slashing crescendo, and then gracefully downward
Ms. Kurosawa presents her themes gracefully and then undertakes intricate, sometimes adventurous variations, drawing on a timbral palette that ranges from warm and rounded to bright and metallic.
LECTURE/DEMO: Yumi Kurosawa
Grossman House for Global Perspectives
MARCH 11 | 5 PM
This lecture/demonstration offers students a unique opportunity to explore the rich history and contemporary evolution of the Koto through Kurosawa’s masterful insights.
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