国際的なアンサンブル INTERWOVEN による室内コンサートの新しいシリーズである AMI の 3 つのコンサートの第２弾をCRS のホワイト ルームで開催します。 10月8日（土）午後7時30分から行われるこのコンサートでは、gamin（ピリ／セングァン）とAlex Fortes（ヴァイオリン）、徳永慶子（ヴァイオリン）、Ana Kim（チェロ）が、Ki Young KimとTheodore Wiprudの作品、そしてWilliam Cooperとgaminによるニューヨーク初演の楽曲を演奏する予定です。

韓国のピリとセンファンは、驚くほど大きくて素朴で異世界的な音を出すことができる小さな楽器です。韓国語のピッチの概念は非常に多様です。どの音も、上昇または下降するアタック、ミドル、リリースのジェスチャーになる可能性があります。このプログラムでは、韓国の作曲家の作品2曲と西洋の作曲家の作品2曲を組み合わせます。それぞれがインスピレーションを得て、韓国の木管楽器と西洋の弦楽器の異なる音と慣習を明確に異なるスリリングな方法で組み合わせ、それぞれの可能性を広げます。

NTERWOVENは、グラミー賞受賞者である徳永慶子によって設立された室内アンサンブルで、さまざまな場所や時間の音をひとつにまとめることを使命としています。このアンサンブルの名前は、音楽制作は、多様な起源、伝統、素材を表す糸で織られたタペストリーを作るようなものだという考えから由来します。

Amiは日本語では「編む」、多くのロマンス語では「友」を意味します。異なる文化的背景を持つミュージシャンが集まり、西洋音楽と非西洋音楽、伝統と現代を並べて演奏することで、異なる背景を持つお客様に、馴染みのない伝統に見られる不思議と共通点を紹介し、異文化間のつながりを強化することを願っています。

チケットは 30 ドルで、eventbrite.com　購入できます。売り切れでなければ、現金にて当日券を購入できます。入場には、例外なく予防接種の証明書を提示していただきます’。マスクの着用をお願いしています。

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)の練習とプログラムの基礎を成すのは、深いリスニングです。提供されるあらゆるサービスなどの気を散らすものから解放され、、深く耳を傾けることで、私たちが知覚や思考を手放し、ただ経験する機会をシャアしたいと考えています。

第1回目のコンサートは９月２４日に行われ、グラミー賞やオスカー賞を受賞した作曲家・坂本龍一らの作品を木村玲香乃（箏）が演奏。3 回目のコンサートは 10 月 29 日、Andy Lin (二胡/ヴィオラ) が出演し、Chen Yi の弦楽四重奏のためのフィドル組曲やその他の作品を演奏します。

チケットリンク:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interwoven-ensemble-ami-concert-series-vol-2-tickets-404303722317

COVIDポリシー:
入場するには、完全な予防接種の証明が必要です。例外はありません。マスクは常に着用する必要があります。座席数には限りがあり、床に座る座席も含まれます。症状のある方はご遠慮ください。代わりに払い戻しを依頼するか、チケットを寄付してください。

会場の場所:
CRSのホワイトルーム
123 4th Ave. FL3
NY.NY 10003
212-677-8621

ABOUT THE MUSICIANS

A native of San Diego, New York-based violinist ALEX FORTES is recognized for his versatility and warmth. Recent performances have included concerts in France,

Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Indonesia, as well as throughout North America. His playing is featured on A Far Cry’s 2014 Grammy-nominated album, Dreams and Prayers, as well as on Law of Mosaics, which The New Yorker’s Alex Ross hailed as one of the top ten albums of 2014. He can also be heard on a forthcoming album with the Henschel Quartett and pianist Donald Berman featuring the music of Chris Theofanidis.

Fortes holds a strong interest in finding new contexts in which to experience familiar music. His arrangements of Schubert lieder and chamber music were hailed by the Boston Globe as “uniformly resourceful and complementary…smart, subtle.” In May 2016, A Far Cry premiered his arrangement with Sarah Darling of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in collaboration with pianist Simone Dinnerstein.

A strong advocate for the importance of social and civic engagement, Alex spent a year working as an administrator and playing for the Longwood Symphony, an orchestra associated with Boston’s medical community that uses its performances to raise funds and awareness for medical nonprofits. In May 2010, he was chosen by former U.S. Senator and New School President Bob Kerrey to be the student speaker at the New School’s commencement ceremony, where he spoke about the importance of interdisciplinary cooperation and civic engagement for fostering innovation and strong communities.

Alex has participated in educational residencies in both English and Spanish related to entrepreneurship, music performance and education, at colleges and public schools throughout the United States. He holds music degrees from Mannes College and a B.A. in Government from Harvard College.

Indiana-native ANA KIM is a versatile cellist based in New York, who performs on modern and historical instruments with various ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and South Korea. She performs with ensembles including the Sebastians, American Classical Orchestra, and Boston Baroque.

Ana has participated in festivals such as Yellow Barn, Verbier Academy, Music@ Menlo, and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She has received a Doctorate at the University of Southern California and has studied Historical Performance at Juilliard.

Her teachers include János Starker, Ralph Kirshbaum, Laurence Lesser, and Phoebe Carrai. With a keen interest in education, Ana has participated in outreach residencies with Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine and Listen Closely in New York, and the American Classical Orchestra’s Classical Music for Kids. She had taught at Pacific Union College and public schools in Napa Valley. She is currently teaching at the Browning School in New York City.

GAMIN is a Korean-born multi-instrumentalist who specializes in traditional Korean wind instruments. She tours the world performing traditional Korean music and engages in numerous cross-disciplinary collaborations. She is a designated Yisuja, official holder of South Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46.

From 2000 to 2010, gamin was the principal piri player at the National Gugak Orchestra in Seoul. She has received several cultural exchange program grants and collaborated in cross-cultural new music works with world-acclaimed musicians. She was a featured artist at the Silkroad concert in Seoul (2018), performing on stage with the founder, Yo-Yo Ma.

Her album “Nong” was released by Innova Records. Her Carnegie Hall solo début, accompanied by Nangye Gugak Orchestra, was postponed due to the pandemic. Recently, she was awarded the prestigious two-year Jerome Hill Foundation Artist Fellowship.

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Winner of the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance, violinist KEIKO TOKUNAGAspends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Keiko has performed, toured and recorded extensively with the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet from 2005 to 2019, and has been praised by the Strings Magazine for possessing a sound “with probing quality that is supple and airborne” and for her “pure, pellucid bow strokes”. She has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra.

In 2021, Keiko founded an online concert series, Jukebox Concerts, in order to provide artistic outlets for musicians who lost their engagements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performances were made available not only to the subscribers, but also to residents of nursing homes, hospitals and assisted living facilities across the country. Later in the year, she created INTERWOVEN, a multi-cultural ensemble whose mission is to eliminate discrimination against the AAAPI (Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders) community by integrating the musical traditions of the East and West.

While Keiko played the Attacca Quartet, the ensemble won numerous prestigious awards including the GRAMMY Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance, First Prize of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011; the Third Prize and the Australian Broadcast Corporation Classic FM Listener’s Choice Award of the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The Attacca Quartet served as the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at The Juilliard School from 2011 till 2013, and as artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2014-15 season.

When she is not on the road, Keiko enjoys her career as an educator. She is currently on faculty at Fordham University. In the past, she taught at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division; the Hunter College of New York; New York University; the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival; and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute.

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ABOUT THE COMPOSERS

KI YOUNG KIM is an international, genre-bending composer whose work defies categorization. Since becoming a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Grant in 1995, he has broadened his music career in Japan and New York while collaborating with dancers, theater directors, and visual artists. A classically-trained composer and scholar of Korean avant-garde theater, Kim has received multiple commissions from the National Gugak Center, Korea’s premier traditional music center. He is also the founder of CMB 567, an organization examining intra-Asian relations through contemporary art and music.

Kim’s collaborators include pioneering artists like Shin-Ja Hong, Asoon Ahn, Gloria McLean, Whitewave, String Noise, and Chang-Jin Lee. His compositions have premiered at La MaMa, Dance Theater Workshop, Tenri Gallery, and other venues. He is currently based in New York, where he directs Quiet Revolution, a multidisciplinary performance combining Western and Korean instruments in ritualistic meditation. In 2019, he became a composer-in-residence at Brandeis University.

THEODORE WIPRUD is a composer, educator, and arts leader. He is widely known for having served as Vice President, Education, at the New York Philharmonic from 2004-2018, and as host of the iconic Young People’s Concerts.

At the same time, he has produced a steady stream of works including a Sinfonietta (2016), premiered by the South Dakota Symphony; a Violin Concerto (Katrina), composed for Ittai Shapira, and released with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on Champs Hill Records; a one-act opera, My Last Duchess, with libretto by Tom Dulack based on poetry by Robert Browning; a song cycle, For Allegra, on a variety of American poets; and a number of pieces based on gugak, Korean traditional music, and including gugak instruments like p’iri, gayageum, and haegeum.

Many of Wiprud’s works explore spiritual experience, like the orchestral Hosannas of the Second Heaven and Grail; his two string quartets; and a number of choral pieces. Other works respond to American literature, including American Journal, based on Robert Hayden’s poem, and A Georgia Song, a setting of Maya Angelou.

Wiprud graduated cum laude in biochemistry at Harvard and earned a master’s in theory and composition at Boston University, where he worked with David Del Tredici. He also studied with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, and with Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands at Aspen.

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle for his richly soaring vocal lines, WILLIAM DAVID COOPER is the composer of three operas and music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, Baroque instruments, chorus, film, and dance. His operas have been performed by Fort Worth Opera, West Edge Opera, andthe National Opera Association, among others. His music has also been performed by Augustin Hadelich, Liza Stepanova, The New York Virtuoso Singers, C4, Antico Moderno, Splinter Reeds, the Lysander Trio, ECCE Ensemble, the Calder Quartet, the Slee Sinfonietta, and the Juilliard Orchestra. An alumnus of UC Davis and the Juilliard School, Cooper serves on the faculty of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and as organist and choir master at St. James Episcopal Church in New London, CT.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRS (CENTER FOR REMEMBERING & SHARING) is a spiritual healing and art center founded in 2004 by the writer/lecturer/spiritual counselor Yasuko Kasaki and artist Christopher Pelham. Our mission is guided by A Course in Miracles (ACIM). ACIM says that recognizing that you and your brother are actually one is the only way to experience peace. The mission of CRS is to promote the awareness that limitless creativity lives within each of us. We train minds to recognize the light in themselves and others and provide them opportunities to share their inner vision through the healing and creative arts. Since its founding CRS has provided numerous residencies and performance and exhibition opportunities to artists from all over the world. Currently, CRS is a multi-year sponsor of M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians), a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.