Kojiro Umezaki

Shakuhachi, Composition, Music-Technology

Brooklyn Rider

Laguna Beach, CA – 02/10/11

Who
Japan OC
When
Thursday, February 10, 2011
8:00pm - All Ages
Where
Laguna Playhouse (map)
Laguna Beach, CA, USA 92651

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Stillwater, MN – 08/27/10

Who
Stillwater Music Festival
When
Friday, August 27, 2010
8:00pm - For tickets call 651-583-4703. - All Ages
Where
Washington Historic Courthouse (map)
101 Pine Street West
Stillwater, MN, USA 55082-4994

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Stillwater, MN – 08/25/10

Who
Stillwater Music Festival
When
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
7:00pm - All Ages
Where
The Daily Grind Espresso Bar (map)
317 Main Street South
Stillwater, MN, USA 55082-5168
Other Info
Brooklyn Rider and Kojiro Umezaki will perform a short free preview for the August 27th concert.

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Minneapolis, MN – 08/24/10

Who
Stillwater Music Festival
When
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
7:30pm - All Ages Buy Tickets
Where
1420 Washington Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN, USA 55454

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Review of Angel Orensanz Concert with Brooklyn Rider

NY Times review.

TimeOut New York review.

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Review of Irvine Barclay Concert with Brooklyn Rider

Stillwater Music Festival, MN

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/

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New York City (Angel Orensanz) with Brooklyn Rider

Courtesy: Brooklyn Rider Newsletter (March 8, 2010)

CD release show and the live exhibition of the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery in NYC!

Brooklyn Rider would love to invite you to a celebration of our new album, Dominant Curve, (released on In a Circle Records), along with a one-night-only showing of the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery on Monday, March 15 at one of our favorite venues in New York – the Angel Orensanz Foundation.  We are excited to take this opportunity to perform the album in its entirety. Along with the album’s centerpiece, Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, we will present four new works created for Brooklyn Rider in 2009 by our friends: Kojiro Umezaki, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and Justin Messina, as well as our very own composer-in-residence, violinist Colin Jacobsen.

The extraordinary fin de siecle world of Claude Debussy and his friendship with many well-known musicians, writers, and artists of his day serves as a model and source of inspiration for us. In this spirit, the March 15 event will also introduce the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery, normally exhibited as a virtual gallery housed on our website at www.brooklynrider.com. The gallery celebrates artists of diverse backgrounds and means of expression who are united by common creative energies and through their friendships with the members of Brooklyn Rider.  On display for one night only will be selected works of  Golnar Adili, Mary Frank, William Merkens, Kevork Mourad and Andrew Nofsinger.  Boston-based artist Lennie Peterson’s visual responses to the music on Dominant Curve,  which are featured in the album’s accompanying booklet, will be exhibited as well.

We hope you join us for this very special night. You’ll find all the info you need below. We encourage you to get tickets soon!

In a Circle Presents:  “Dominant Curve” – Brooklyn Rider CD release party + Art gallery opening.

Date & time: Monday, March 15, 2010
Doors open at 6:30pm (gallery viewing);
Performance at 7:30pm

Venue: Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk street. F train to 2nd Ave.

Program:
Colin Jacobsen – “Achille’s Heel”
Kojiro Umezaki – “(Cycles) what falls must rise”
Dmitri Yanov -Yanovski – “…al niente”
John Cage, arr. Justin Messina – “In a Landscape”
Claude Debussy -  String Quartet in g minor, op. 10

Performing Artists: Brooklyn Rider, Kojiro Umezaki; shakuhachi and live electronics, Justin Messina; live electronics

Art Exhibition: Golnar Adili, Mary Frank, William Merkens,  Kevork Mourad, Andrew Nofsinger, Lennie Peterson
Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 at the door.  Advance tickets available here.

What people are saying about our new album:

Huffington Post “Outfits like Brooklyn Rider, and its excellent recent release Dominant Curve, are bringing a much needed fresh image to the Western classical world. The key to the success of any music genre is evolution.”

Chicago Reader  “Superb”

TimeOut Chicago  “One of the most inventive and thrilling albums of the year”

Toronto Star  “The precision and control in the playing is stunning.”

Northwest Reverb  “Brooklyn Rider shows deep artistic maturity and a spiritual essence bordering on the psychedelic… Exciting and fresh, Dominant Curve is full of worthwhile new material as well as a valid and imaginative interpretation of the Debussy string quartet.”

Emusic “Even more ambitious and far-ranging disc”

The Mail and Globe “…The Cage arrangement is beautifully cosmic…”

Lucid Culture “…Hypnotically beautiful, stunningly imaginative…”

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Albuquerque, NM (The Andaluz Hotel) with Brooklyn Rider

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La Jolla, CA (The Loft) with Brooklyn Rider

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