Yumi Kurosawa Trio

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.
NYSmusic.com
Mystical, lingering passages interchange with adrenalizing climbs and flurries...
New York Daily Music
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
New York Daily Music
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.
NYT