FOCUSING ON HER
Presented by the Center for Remembering & Sharing
Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 7 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
(43A West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011)
Tickets: $10- $40
Musicians Yoko Reikano Kimura, gamin, and Amirtha Kidambi perform music composed by female AAPI composers + Q&A about women in music.
◆PROGRAM
“Untitled after Kim Myung Soon”
composed by Yoon-Ji Lee 이윤지 in 2019
performed by gamin 가민 / saenghwang solo
visual art by Bang Geul Han 한방글
“The Road”
composed by Yoko Sato 佐藤容子 in 2007
performed by Yoko Reikano Kimura 木村伶香能 / shamisen solo
“Swim Fast (2021) for Ellen O”
composed by Amirtha Kidambi in 2021
performed by Amirtha Kidambi / vocal & saxophone
Improvisation
performed by gamin, Yoko Reikano Kimura, and Amirtha Kidambi
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and Tenri Cultural Institute of NY present Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 16: FOCUSING ON HER on Saturday, December 10, 2022 at 7 pm at Tenri Cultural Institute.
Originally scheduled to take place on March 12, FOCUSING ON HER features three AAPI female musicians — Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American, voice/saxophone), Yoko Reikano Kimura (Japan, shamisen), and gamin (Korea, saenghwang) — improvising and performing music by AAPI female composers: Amirtha Kidambi (Indian-American), Yoko Sato (Japan), and Yoon-Ji Lee (Korea), with visual projection designed by Bang Geul Han (Korea). Each of the compositions is a prayer or elegy for those who endure or have endured trauma.
Curated by multi-Instrumentalist gamin, this fifth season of Crossing Boundaries consists of three concerts exploring the theme of WOMEN IN MUSIC performed by female and female-identifying musicians.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crossing-boundaries-concert-series-vol-16-focusing-on-her-tickets-354807989247?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
◆ARTISTS
gamin is a Korean-born NYC-based multi-instrumentalist specializing in traditional Korean wind instruments. She tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. She is a scholar and designated Yisuja, official holder of Korea’s Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46. From 2000 to 2010, gamin was the principal player at the National Gugak Orchestra. gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants, including Artist-in-Residence at the Asian Cultural Council, and has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with the founder, Yo-Yo Ma. For 2020, gamin was selected as artist-in-residency at the HERE Arts Center, NYC, and her album “Nong” was released by Innova Records. gamin’s Carnegie Hall solo début, accompanied by Nangye Gugak Orchestra, scheduled for March 2020, was postponed by Covid 19. http://gaminmusic.com
YOON-JI LEE is a Korean composer based in Boston and New York. She has been creating music based on non-linear structure with a powerful focus on quickly juxtaposing disparate elements through the rapid transformation in both acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her works have been engaged with visual arts, dance, literature and intercultural influences. Lee’s chamber and electronic music have been performed in Korea and around the U.S., by ensembles including JACK Quartet, MIVOS Quartet, Argento Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Talea Ensemble, ensemble mise-en, and many others. Lee received Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship, the Jane Geuting Camp Fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Patsy Lu Award from International Alliance of Women in Music, and the Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship from NYU. Lee has participated in artist residencies at National Sawdust, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Lee earned her PhD at NYU and did her Masters/GD at New England Conservatory. Lee is Currently Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. http://www.yoonjilee.org
BANG GEUL HAN is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, performance, text, and code. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea and based in the US since 2003, her work has been shown in venues including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, DOOSAN Gallery New York, NURTUREart, A.I.R. Gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery in New York City, Galerie Les Territories and Projét Pangée in Montreal, and Centro Internazionale per l’Arte Contemporanea in Rome. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, and Art Papers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. http://whatbunny.org/web/