Odeon Chamber Music Series celebrates 25 years of bringing world-class chamber music to Falls Church, VA.

INTERWOVEN will bring a program that features two Japanese Hougaku instruments: Koto and Shamisen.

INTERWOVEN’s Virginia Tour begins at the Kirkwood Presbyterian Church in Spring Field, VA.

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto/Shamisen/Voice

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Mihai Marica, Violoncello

Program TBA

This performance is made possible by: Canada Council for the Arts

Persented by: Musewest

Program TBD

GRAMMY award-winning violinist Keiko Tokunaga and shamisen/koto player Yoko from Ensemble INTERWOVEN  joining cellist Ani Kalayjian to perform in a program titled "Memoirs of the Earth", featuring works that have nature as an inspiration, the stunning music by Japanese composers.

FantAsia!, by INTERWOVEN, is a concert program and event celebrating the composition of Asian folklore-inspired works on the night of the Lunar New Year 2024. Taking place in Washington Heights, this project will include three original composition commissions, three world premiere performances, include a live discussion held at intermission with our commissioned composers, Stephanie Chou, Vicente Hansen Atría, and Michael Ippolito, and finish with a post-concert reception of Asian delicacies curated by a neighborhood Asian restaurant.

INTERWOVEN returns to Elizabeth Street Garden for a preview event of Chinatown Arts Week 2023! It is a free performance— come by and enjoy the music in one of the most beloved parks in New York City.

INTERWOVEN and New Asia Chamber Music Society join forces in presenting a program featuring Yoko Reikano Kimura.

This event is reserved for the Patrons of the MET.

The New Asia Chamber Music Society x INTERWOVEN

Taiwanese-born violist and erhu player Wei-Yang Andy Lin is one of the most important performers specializing in both western and eastern instruments. In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Lin will be joined by members of the New Asia Chamber Music Society and the chamber ensemble INTERWOVEN.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served from 5:30 to 6 pm and resume after the conversation or concert until 7:30 pm. Conversations and Concerts for Patrons are open to The Champion’s Circle and above. Please show your Patron card, which admits two, at the Patrons Lounge.

For more information, visit https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/members/insidethemet

Center for Remembering and Sharing presents: INTERWOVEN at Resobox

Program:

JungYoon Wie: A Popular Tune for string quartet

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Sekiheki no Fu - Red Cliff for Koto, Erhu and Voice

Yang Yong: River Songs for Erhu and Cello

Takuma Itoh: Crosscurrents for Shamisen and Violin

Debussy: String Quartet

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Shamisen/Voice

Andy Lin, Erhu/Viola

Emilie-Anne Gendron & Keiko Tokunaga, Violins

Nan-Cheng Chen, Cello

Program:

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Sekiheki no Fu (Red Cliff), arranged for Koto and Erhu

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Banshiki-cho for Shamisen

Yang Yong: River Songs

Takuma Itoh: Crosscurrents

Tien-Hua Liu: Walking forwards the bright future

Daron Hagen: Selections from Heike Quinto

Thomas Osborne: Tumbling from the Ninth Height of Heaven

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto/Shamisen/Voice

Andy Lin, Erhu/Viola

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Hikaru Tamaki, Cello

INTERWOVEN is one of the 14 chosen ensembles to be featured at the Chamber Music America Conference 2023 in New York City.

Program

Thomas Osborne: Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven for Koto, Violin and Cello

Chen YaoXin & Liu TianHua: Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio

Daron Hagen: Genji (V. Vanished Into the Clouds) for Koto and String Quartet

Nong is an ancient Korean term meaning “to play”—here, the joy of discovering new ways of playing when different cultures intersect. gamin, a Korean-born NYC-based multi-instrumentalist specializing in traditional Korean wind, along with her collaborators, places instruments and concepts from traditional Korean music alongside a variety of American musical elements. 

On the program, Theodore Wiprud’s Mudang for Piri (a double-reed bamboo oboe) incorporates shamanic energy that ranges from meditation to ecstasy. Korean composer Yoon-Ji Lee dedicates her composition to ‘comfort women’ (victims of human trafficking throughout Japan-occupied East Asia, 1932-1945) in her work for taepyungso (a double-reed shawn) and strings. Works by William David Cooper weave Western string instruments with Korean winds, incorporating folk tunes and different tuning systems. Nathan Schram, Brooklyn-based composer and GRAMMY-winning violist, highlights the organic, almost guttural expressions with an immovable, spacious rhythmic underpinning of Korean traditional music. Mexico-born, France-based composer Alejandro Mata’s independent research into Korean heritage, music, and history has deeply influenced his innovative new composition for saenghwang(Korean mouth-organ) and string quartet, and gamin’s composition broadens the range of the new musical realm with her traditional improvisatory ideas of Korean folk music.

With Nong, gamin and her collaborators—NY-based multicultural ensemble INTERWOVEN and electronic sound artist Yoon-Ji Lee—hope to diversify American audiences’ aesthetic understanding of East Asia, which is all too often painted in broad strokes. The musicians from South Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan will weave their sounds together in hopes that their collaboration would inspire peaceful and harmonious relationships amongst the North Eastern Asian countries despite their tumultuous history, as well as to inspire new generations of American composers and musicians to embrace the inherent multiculturalism of American music by bringing their crafts with rich traditions from around the world, and approach music-making with the distinct goal of bridging cultural divides.

CRS presents Vol. 3 of AMI, a new series of chamber concerts by the international ensemble INTERWOVEN in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The concert will take place on Saturday, October 29 at 7:30 pm and will feature Andy Weiyan Lin (erhu/viola) with Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin), Keiko Tokunaga (violin), Matthew Cohen (viola), and Nan-Cheng Chen (cello), performing Chen Yi's Fiddle Suite for String Quartet as well as shorter selections by Dvorak, Mozart, and others.

INTERWOVEN returns to the beautiful Elizabeth Street Garden at dusk on October 9th! Grab some food and drinks, have a picnic and soak up the amazing scenery of the beloved community garden as INTERWOVEN musicians serenade you with Chinese folk songs, Dvorak and Mozart.

Free admission

CRS presents the second of three concerts of AMI, a new series of chamber concerts by the international ensemble INTERWOVEN in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The concert will take place on Saturday, October 8 at 7:30 pm and will feature gamin (piri/saenghwang) with Alex Fortes (violin), Keiko Tokunaga (violin), and Ana Kim (cello), performing compositions by Ki Young Kim and Theodore Wiprud as well as New York premieres by William Cooper and gamin.

CRS is pleased to present the first of three concerts of AMI, a new series of chamber concerts by the international ensemble INTERWOVEN in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The first concert will take place on Saturday, September 24 at 7:30 pm and will feature Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto/shamisen) with Keiko Tokunaga (violin) and Hikaru Tamaki (cello) performing compositions by Japanese and western composers:

• Daron Hagen: Cavatina

• Elizabeth Brown: The Secret Life of Birds

• Ken Ueno: Tsuki no Uta (Song of the Moon)

• Michael Ippolito: Strange Loops: IV. The Stonecutter

• Tsukino Utage (a contemporary Hôgaku, composer unknown)

• Thomas Osborne: Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven

Michio Miyagi (1894-1956): Haru no Umi (“The Sea in Spring”) for Koto and Violin (1929)

Tianhua Liu (1895-1932) and Yaoxing Chen (b. 1941): Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio

James Ra (b. 1974): Four Dialogues for String Quartet (2007)

1. Allegretto con moto

2. Grave

3. Largo

4. Allegro vivace

Nathan Schram (b. 1987): Woljeongsa for String Quartet (2015)

Daron Hagen (b. 1961): Koto Concerto: Genji (2010)

1. Cicada Shell

2. Falling Flowers

3. Maiden on the Bridge

4. Floating Bridge of Dreams

5. Vanished into the Clouds

Our koto player, Yoko Reikano Kimura will introduce the mechanics and soundscape of koto (Japanese zithar) to composition/performance majors at the Long School of Music in Massachusetts.

Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio

Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonate a Quattro No. 4

Caroline Shaw: “Punctum”

Eun Young Lee: Bagooni (New York Premiere)

Daron Hagen: Koto Concerto “Genji” (New York Premiere of 13-string Koto version)

*** INTERMISSION***

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence

Program:

Traditional Chinese Folk Songs for Erhu and String Trio

Mozart: String Quartet in G major K387

Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio

Andy Lin, Erhu & Viola

Alex Fortes, Violin

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin & Viola

Ana Kim, Violoncello