Kojiro Umezaki

For Zero

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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

Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar (July 2010) – premiere

Make Music New York Festival

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Part of Interactive Music New York.

WNYC mention.

Julliard School of Music

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Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar
Faculty and Friends Concert
Julliard School of Music
Room 309

Review of Angel Orensanz Concert with Brooklyn Rider

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NY Times review.

TimeOut New York review.

North America Tour with The Silk Road Ensemble

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Concert Tour of U.S. Music Festivals
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

August 8: Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Music Center, Koussevitzky Music Shed
August 9: New Bedford, MA – Zeiterion Theatre
August 11: Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
August 12: Rochester, NY – CMAC Performing Arts Center
August 14: Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
August 15: Detroit, MI – Orchestra Hall
August 17: Chapel Hill, NC – Memorial Auditorium, UNC Chapel Hill
August 19: Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
August 20: Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Pavilion
August 22: Madison, WI – Overture Center for the Arts

Review of Irvine Barclay Concert with Brooklyn Rider

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LA Times review.

Stillwater Music Festival, MN

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Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Southern Theater

Tickets: $25
Southern Theater box office: 612.340.1725
1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55454
http://www.southerntheater.org/

University of California, Irvine

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2010-2011 Chamber Series
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall
Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi
special guest – Joseph Gramley, percussion

Themed on notions of the cyclical drawing inspiration from Walt Whitman to the number 108, UCI music faculty member Kojiro Umezaki presents a program of new works for shakuhachi, percussion, and technology. Joining him will be special guest and fellow Silk Road Ensemble member, Joseph Gramley, Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Orange County, CA (Bowers Museum)

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Performance of “108″ w/ Faraz Minooei (santur).

www.bowers.org

New York City (Drom)

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Breathing Over Time and Space
NakaNaka celebrates an incredible first year of performances and events by such artists as KODO, On Ensemble, Ned Rothenberg, Miles Okazaki, Masuo Yoshiaki, Adam Rudolph and more. For this special event, curator Kaoru Watanabe has invited the acclaimed flute innovator Robert Dick shakuhachi player and composer Kojiro Umezaki, tabla player Deep Singh and other special guests for a gorgeous mélange of eastern and western instruments.