Kojiro Umezaki

Shakuhachi, Composition, Music-Technology

Works

For Zero

For: percussion and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 2010
Commissioned by: Joseph Gramley
Written for: Joseph Gramley
Performed by: Joseph Gramley and Haruka Fujii
    Performances:

  • Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar (July 2010) – premiere

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(Cycles) America

For: percussion and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 2009
Commissioned by: Joseph Gramley
Written for: Joseph Gramley
Performed by: Joseph Gramley
    Performances:

  • Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar (July 2010)
  • Michigan Day of Percussion (May 2010)
  • Weidner Center for the Performing Arts (May 2009), University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
  • Saginaw, MI (April 2009). Review is here.
  • McIntosh Theatre, University of Michigan School of Music (April 2009) – premiere

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(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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Altær

For: shakuhachi and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 1999, 2008
Performed by: Kojiro Umezaki
    Performances:

  • International Computer Music Conference (August 2009)
  • WKCR (December 2008)
  • University of Richmond (November 2008)
  • UC Irvine (October 2008) – premiere

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Secret Axis, Segment #2

electro-acoustic miniature
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 2007

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    Performances:

  • FILE – SESI Gallery (July, 2010)
  • AVLAB (June, 2010)

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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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Trio I

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

Release: Gush 3, Mahriz Mehr Institute, 2007
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Available upon request.

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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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Blue and White

music, narration, video
The Silk Road Ensemble
directed by Nick Cords and Kojiro Umezaki
produced by The Silk Road Project
original music – Joe Gramley, Colin Jacobsen, Kojiro Umezaki
arrangement of Ambush from Ten Sides – Wu Tong
video direction – Ken Sackheim
animation – Kevork Mourad
text and narration – Nick Cords and Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 2007
    Performances:

  • Museum Rietberg, Zurich (September 2007)
    editing – WORKedit, New York City
  • Art Institute of Chicago (April 2007) – premiere

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108

For: shakuhachi and electronics
Composer: Kojiro Umezaki
Year(s): 1999, 2006-7
Performed by: Kojiro Umezaki
    Performances:

  • Bowers Museum (May 2010)
  • American Museum of Natural History (January 2010)
  • WKCR (December 2008)
  • UC Irvine (October 2008)
  • Museum Rietberg (September 2007)
  • Art Institute of Chicago (April 2007)
    with Dong-Won Kim, percussion; Eric Jacobsen, cello

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  • Columbia Museum of Art (April 2007)
  • University of Virginia (February 2007)

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