Kojiro Umezaki

Shakuhachi, Composition, Music-Technology

Recordings

As Featured Performer and/or Composer

(Cycles) what falls must rise

For: shakuhachi, string quartet, and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 2009
Commissioned by: Hopkins Center and Music Department, Dartmouth College
Written for: Brooklyn Rider

Release: Dominant Curve, Brooklyn Rider, In A Circle Records, 2010
Performed by: Kojiro Umezaki, Brooklyn Rider
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Purchase at: In a Circle Records, iTunes

    Performances:

  • Stillwater Music Festival (August 2010)
  • Angel Orensantz Foundation (March 2010)
  • UC San Diego (February 2010)
  • UC Irvine (February 2010)
  • NUBLU (November 2009)
  • Denison University (March 2009)
  • Williamstown, MA (February 2009)
  • Dartmouth College (February 2009) – premiere

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Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain

shakuhachi, marimba, percussion, violin, cello, double-bass
Composer: Angel Lam
Year(s): 2006

Release: Off the Map, The Silk Road Ensemble, World Village, 2009
Performed by: The Silk Road Ensemble
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Release: New Impossibilities, The Silk Road Ensemble, Sony BMG, 2007
Performed by: The Silk Road Ensemble
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Dona Nobis Pacem

shakuhachi
Kojiro Umezaki
Traditional

Web Release: Songs of Joy and Peace, Yo-Yo Ma and Various Artists, Sony BMG, 2008

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Night at the Caravanserai

The Silk Road Ensemble
Shane Shanahan – arranger

Release: New Impossibilities, The Silk Road Ensemble, Sony BMG, 2007
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When the Wind Circles

voice, shakuhachi
Dong-Won Kim, Kojiro Umezaki

Release: New Impossibilities, The Silk Road Ensemble, Sony BMG, 2007
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Kei

brass, sho, koto, shakuhachi
Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, Tamami Tono, Ryuko Mizutani, Kojiro Umezaki
Tamami Tono – composer

Release: Scenes of Spirits, The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, Signum Classics, 2007
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Trio I

santur, ney, shakuhachi
Siamak Agahei, Siamak Jahangiri, Kojiro Umezaki

Release: Gush 3, Mahriz Mehr Institute, 2007
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Beat Infraction

double-bass, drums/percussion, shakuhachi
Richard Le Gendre, Alain Mercure, Kojiro Umezaki
All compositions by Beat in Fractions

Release: Beat Infraction, Beat in Fractions, Healthy Boys, 2007
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Yanzi (Swallow Song)

cello, shakuhachi
Yo-Yo Ma, Kojiro Umezaki
Traditional (Kazakh/Chinese)
Zhao Lin – arranger

Release: Appassionato, Yo-Yo Ma and Various Artists, Sony BMG, 2007
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La 3ième Langue

For: shakuhachi and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 1999, 2003

Release: Extraditional, Kojiro Umezaki, Healthy Boys, 1999
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    Performances:

  • UC Irvine (October 2008)
  • Japan Society, New York (2003)
  • University of Montreal (2000)
  • International Computer Music Conference, Beijing (1999) –
    premiere
    with Tamami Tono, sho

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Itsuki no Komoriuta (Lullaby from Itsuki)

shakuhachi
Kojiro Umezaki
Traditional (Japanese)

Release: The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan, Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways, 2002
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Release: Dominant Curve, Brooklyn Rider, In A Circle Records, 2010
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As Producer

Crossroads Exchanges

Various Artists
producers – Mark Suter and Kojiro Umezaki
executive producer – Andy Russ

Release: The Silk Road Project, 2007
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