Artist

Mari Kimura continues the great tradition of the virtuoso composer/performer. She embraces the worlds of extended violin techniques and interactive computer music, making them her own. She is also well known for developing the extended technique of “Subharmonics”-- playing notes below the open-G string without lowering the tuning of the instrument. New Music Connoisseur wrote that “Mari Kimura is to the violin what perhaps Henry Cowell and later John Cage were to the piano in the 1920’s and 30’s”.

As a composer, Ms. Kimura was just selected as a 2010 Composer in Residence in musical research at IRCAM in Paris, as one of the two winners among 117 applicants. She will be working on her ongoing collaboration with the Real Time Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM on bowing gesture follower, the “Augmented Violin System”. Ms. Kimura has been invited as an artist in residence at Banff Center for the Arts, Headland Center for the Arts, Harvestworks, among others. A winner of 2006 Artist Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), her works have been supported by grants including Jerome Foundation, Arts International, Meet The Composer, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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About the series

Jack Straw Productions, Nonsequitur, and WCF present the Transport series of compelling performances by international and local artists, offering a way out of audio gridlock to music’s far horizons. Receptions follow the concerts. 

 

The series features international and local artists in several premieres, and includes music by acclaimed composers. National calls for scores inject the programs with the latest music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transport

Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present

 

Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura

 

Thursday, March 4 @ 8pm

Chapel Performance Space

Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor in Seattle map

 

Tickets: At door. $5-$15 siding scale, WCF members attend one concert in the Transport series free

 

Composer and performer Mari Kimura will present a compelling concert of new music featuring extended techniques for violin. The New York Times called her “Chilling... gripping... charming... Ms. Kimura is a virtuoso playing at the edge.”

 

Program
Mari Kimura Subharmonic Partita for solo violin (2005)
Salvatore Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin (1975)
Mari Kimura Gemini for solo violin (1995)
Jean-Claude Risset: Variants for violin and signal processing (1994, revised 2005)
Mari Kimura Polytopia for violin and signal processing (2004)
Mari Kimura: Clone Barcarole for IRCAM gesture follower (2009)
Mari Kimura: Swarm Aria (world premiere) for IRCAM gesture follower (2010)
Takayuki Rai Active Figuration for violin and signal processing (2009)
Frances White: Old Rose Reader for violin and electronics (2004)
Conlon Nancarrow Toccata for violin and player piano (1937)

 

Interview

Christopher Shainin interviews Mari Kimura on how she became a composer, her work at IRCAM, and the role of the violinist as a creator. Listen

 

Supporters

Co-presented by Jack Straw Productions, the series is co-sponsored by 4Culture and the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs.

 

Jack Straw Productions Logo  4Culture

 

Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs