TOKYO TO NEW YORK ~ 東京 と ニューヨーク
2013
3 Concerts
2 Cities - Tokyo and New York City
28 Composers
14 World Premiers ~ 15 U.S. Premiers
28 Compositions from 1 Minute to 14 Minutes in Length
2 Cities - Tokyo and New York City
28 Composers
14 World Premiers ~ 15 U.S. Premiers
28 Compositions from 1 Minute to 14 Minutes in Length
"TOKYO TO NEW YORK ~ 東京 と ニューヨーク"
Concert Reviews
A review of the May 18th "Tokyo to New York - 東京とニューヨーク" concert at the Queens New Music Festival.
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/tompiercy/
A review of the June 2nd "Tokyo to New York ~ 東京とニューヨーク" concert at SPECTRUM.
http://juhauitto.blogspot.com/2013/06/tokyo-to-new-york-spectrum-june-2-2013.html?m=0
Concert Reviews
A review of the May 18th "Tokyo to New York - 東京とニューヨーク" concert at the Queens New Music Festival.
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/tompiercy/
A review of the June 2nd "Tokyo to New York ~ 東京とニューヨーク" concert at SPECTRUM.
http://juhauitto.blogspot.com/2013/06/tokyo-to-new-york-spectrum-june-2-2013.html?m=0
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Salon Tessera 〒154-0004 東京都世田谷区太子堂4-22-6 Tokyo, Japan 154-0004 Tickets: ￥3,000 [email protected] トーマス・ピアシー: クラリネット＆篳篥 Thomas Piercy - Clarinet & Hichiriki 田中美香 ピアノ Mika Tanaka - Piano Special guest artist: Lindsay Dugan - Shakuhachi 尺八 PROGRAM 坂野嘉彦 Yoshihiko Banno ロージンワルツ Old Men Waltz * 井上一平 Ippei Inoue 望郷 Nostalgia * 石井美栄子 Mieko Ishii 友 You * 岩岡 一志 Kazushi Iwaoka Sketch from Japan * 岩崎健人 Kento Iwasaki 秋祭り Autumn Festival - 1.* 松本祐一 Yuichi Matsumoto You’ve Got Mail * 小栗克裕 Katsuhiro Oguri Movement 2012 * 内田輝 Akira Uchida 新月 New Moon * 宇澤とも子 Tomoko Uzawa 堕天使の涙 Tears of fallen angel * 山口恭子 Kyoko Yamaguchi Space * 栗原洋平 Yohei Kurihara 遊 YUU 下山一二三 Hifumi Shimoyama Amalgam - A 壺井 一歩 Ippo Tsuboi 遠景三題 Far Away in Time * 初演 World Premiere |
eSaturday, May 18th, 2013
Queens New Music Festival The Secret Theatre 44-02 23rd Street, L. I. C., NY. Tickets: $20 http://www.queensnewmusicfestival.org トーマス・ピアシー: クラリネット＆篳篥 Thomas Piercy - Clarinet & Hichiriki 田中美香 ピアノ Mika Tanaka - Piano Special guest artist: Elizabeth Brown - Shakuhachi 尺八 PROGRAM Mienai Sakebigoe ~ Thomas Piercy *Toro Nagashi ~ Masatora Goya ** Nostalgia ~ Ippei Inoue * Autumn Festival - 1.,2 ~ Kento Iwasaki Isle Royale, 1. ~ Elizabeth Brown "Nihon no Shiten" Sakana ~ Armando Ayala Ukiyo-e ~ Greg Bartholomew KOMORIUTA ~ John Bilotta Haiku ~ Andy Cohen Tulipao ~ Douglas DaSilva Suibokuga ~ Andrew Davis ...as it leaves the bell ~ Jim Fox Recurrence ~ Michael Frazier Sensu ~ Nina Siniakova summoning ~ Daniel J. Thompson Calligraphy Circle ~ David Wolfson Isle Royale, 2. ~ Elizabeth Brown * In the Garden ~ Mika Tanaka ** YUU ~ Yohei Kurihara ** Tears of fallen angel ~ Tomoko Uzawa ** You've Got Mail ~ Yuichi Matsumoto ** Amalgam A ~ Hifumi Shimoyama * World Premiere **U.S. Premiere |
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
SPECTRUM 121 Ludlow Street, NY, NY 10002 Tickets: $15 [email protected] 212-974-0663 トーマス・ピアシー: クラリネット＆篳篥 Thomas Piercy - Clarinet & Hichiriki 田中美香 ピアノ Mika Tanaka - Piano Special guest artist: Elizabeth Brown - Shakuhachi 尺八 PROGRAM Mienai Sakebigoe ~ Thomas Piercy Toro Nagashi ~ Masatora Goya **New Moon ~ Akira Uchida **Movement 2012 ~ Katsuhiro Oguri Isle Royale, 1. ~ Elizabeth Brown "Nihon no Shiten" Sakana ~ Armando Ayala Ukiyo-e ~ Greg Bartholomew KOMORIUTA ~ John Bilotta Haiku ~ Andy Cohen Tulipao ~ Douglas DaSilva Suibokuga ~ Andrew Davis ...as it leaves the bell ~ Jim Fox Recurrence ~ Michael Frazier Sensu ~ Nina Siniakova summoning ~ Daniel J. Thompson Calligraphy Circle ~ David Wolfson Isle Royale, 2. ~ Elizabeth Brown In the Garden ~ Mika Tanaka YUU ~ YoheiKurihara **Sketch from Japan ~ Kazushi Iwaoka ** You ~ Mieko Ishii **Old Men Waltz ~ Yoshihiko Banno **Space ~ Kyoko Yamaguchi Amalgam A ~ Hifumi Shimoyama **U.S. Premiere |
トーマス・ピアシー: クラリネット＆篳篥
Thomas Piercy - Clarinet & Hichiriki
田中美香 ピアノ
Mika Tanaka - Piano
Guest Artists
Elizabeth Brown - Shakuhachi 尺八
Lindsay Dugan - Shakuhachi - 尺八
Christina Boers, photographer
Thomas Piercy, photographer
Thomas Piercy - Clarinet & Hichiriki
田中美香 ピアノ
Mika Tanaka - Piano
Guest Artists
Elizabeth Brown - Shakuhachi 尺八
Lindsay Dugan - Shakuhachi - 尺八
Christina Boers, photographer
Thomas Piercy, photographer
Live recordings and video from "Tokyo to New York - 東京 と ニューヨーク" 2013
"You've Got Mail" by Yuichi Matsumoto. World Premier. 2013.
"Old Men Waltz" by Yoshihiko Banno. World Premier. 2013.
"Toro Nagashi" by Masatora Goya. World Premier. 2013.
"Mienai Sakebigoe" by Thomas Piercy. Thomas Piercy, hichiriki.
"Amalgam-A" by Hifumi Shimomaya 下山一二三
United States premier. Recorded live at the 2013 Queens New Music Festival. NY, NY.
Photography by Christina Boers and Thomas Piercy.
United States premier. Recorded live at the 2013 Queens New Music Festival. NY, NY.
Photography by Christina Boers and Thomas Piercy.
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"Tokyo to New York" - three concerts during 2013 of new music by contemporary Japanese composers based on their thoughts about NYC and works by non-Japanese composers influenced or inspired by Japan. The concerts in New York City were visually backed by projections of photos of New York City by photographer Christina Boers and Thomas Piercy and photos of Tokyo by Thomas Piercy. Several of the pieces included the combination of Western classical instruments with traditional Japanese instruments (shakuhachi and hichiriki). Piercy and Tanaka were joined in the Tokyo concert by guest artist Lindsay Dugan, shakuhachi, and in the New York City concert by the renowned shakuhachi player Elizabeth Brown and Lindsay Dugan Following a 2011 call for scores for non-Japanese composers influenced or inspired by Japan ("Nihon no shiten" - "Japanese perspective"), a diverse program was selected from established and emerging composers and these pieces were premiered by Mr. Piercy in New York City in 2012. This concert was followed with a 2012 call for scores asking Tokyo-based composers to write pieces based on their thoughts about NYC. The selected compositions were given their world premiers by Piercy and Tanaka in Tokyo in January, 2013, and their United States premiers in NYC in 2013. These concerts included a wide variety of styles of music, from Japanese avant-garde to contemporary classical, minimalism, J-pop and jazz-influenced pieces. Since 2005, Mr. Piercy has lived in both NYC and Tokyo and has had the opportunity to work with many of the Japanese and American composers programmed in these concerts. Mr. Piercy had the honor of working with many of the composers programmed in these concerts. The "Tokyo to New York" 2013 concerts included fourteen world premieres and fifteen United States premiers. |
Tokyo to New York * Old Men Waltz * Toro Nagashi * Nostalgia * You * Sketch from Japan * Autumn Festival ** YUU * You've Got Mail * Movement 2012 Mienai Sakebigoe * Amalgam - A * New Moon * Tears of fallen angel * Space * In the Garden Sakana Ukiyo-e KOMORIUTA Haiku Tulipao Suibokuga ...as it leaves the bell Recurrence Sensu summoning a skeleton specter Calligraphy Circle * World Premier |
東京 と ニューヨーク Yoshihiko Banno Masatora Goya Ippei Inoue Mieko Ishii Kazushi Iwaoka Kento Iwasaki Yohei Kurihara Yuichi Matsumoto Katsuhiro Oguri Thomas Piercy Hifumi Shimoyama Akira Uchida Tomoko Uzawa Kyoko Yamaguchi Mika Tanaka Armando Ayala Greg Bartholomew John Bilotta Andy Cohen Douglas DaSilva Andrew Davis Jim Fox Michael Frazier Nina Siniakova Daniel J. Thompson David Wolfson **U.S. Premier |
Tokyo - Jan. 20, 2013. "東京とニューヨーク"
On stage with composers after the "Tokyo to New York" concert.
L. to R: 石井美栄子 Mieko Ishii, 壺井 一歩 Ippo Tsuboi, 宇澤とも子Tomoko Uzawa,松本祐Yuichi Matsumoto,
トーマス・ピアシー Thomas Piercy, 田中美香 Mika Tanaka,
内田輝 Akira Uchida, 岩岡 一志 Kazushi Iwaoka, 山口恭子 Kyoko Yamaguchi, 井上一平 Ippei Inoue, 坂野嘉彦 Yoshihiko Banno.
Photos from "Tokyo to New York - 東京とニューヨーク"
Queens New Music Festival
May 18, 2013
NYC
Thomas Piercy, clarinet & hichiriki
Mika Tanaka, piano
Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi
(Click on a photo to enlarge or for slide show.)
THOMAS PIERCY
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate," "pulling out all the stops," and “the best Piazzolla in NYC,” and by the New York Times as “brilliant,” “playing with refinement and flair” and “evoking a panache in the contemporary works.” Mr. Piercy performs varied concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations.
He studied at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in NYC in addition to Shenandoah Conservatory and Virginia Commonwealth University. He studied extensively with the English clarinetist Gervase De Peyer; additional studies were with Stephen Johnston, Kalmen Opperman and Leon Russianoff. He has studied the traditional Japanese instruments hichiriki and shakuhachi in Tokyo.
Mr. Piercy has performed at many of the world’s acclaimed concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC.), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) and Parthenon (Tokyo, Japan). A frequent performer of new music, Piercy has premiered numerous compositions, many of them written for him, including Pulitzer Prize winner and Grammy Award-winning composer Ned Rorem's only clarinet and piano piece, "Four Colors"; the work had its premiere at a concert for Mr. Rorem at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Piercy has recorded many of Rorem’s chamber works featuring the clarinet.
A versatile artist defying categorization - the clarinetist on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CD and DVDs; performing Mozart with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia; working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE rap music video; performing concert improvisations with pianist Donal Fox; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an instrumentalist, singer, director/music director/conductor and actor, he has performed and recorded for Broadway and Off-Broadway, commercial recordings, television, radio, videos, and movie soundtracks. More info at www.ThomasPiercy.com
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto, solo recital and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate," "pulling out all the stops," and “the best Piazzolla in NYC,” and by the New York Times as “brilliant,” “playing with refinement and flair” and “evoking a panache in the contemporary works.” Mr. Piercy performs varied concerts of standard classical music, jazz-inspired programs, contemporary works, pieces written specifically for him and his own original arrangements, compositions and collaborations.
He studied at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in NYC in addition to Shenandoah Conservatory and Virginia Commonwealth University. He studied extensively with the English clarinetist Gervase De Peyer; additional studies were with Stephen Johnston, Kalmen Opperman and Leon Russianoff. He has studied the traditional Japanese instruments hichiriki and shakuhachi in Tokyo.
Mr. Piercy has performed at many of the world’s acclaimed concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC.), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) and Parthenon (Tokyo, Japan). A frequent performer of new music, Piercy has premiered numerous compositions, many of them written for him, including Pulitzer Prize winner and Grammy Award-winning composer Ned Rorem's only clarinet and piano piece, "Four Colors"; the work had its premiere at a concert for Mr. Rorem at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Piercy has recorded many of Rorem’s chamber works featuring the clarinet.
A versatile artist defying categorization - the clarinetist on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CD and DVDs; performing Mozart with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia; working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE rap music video; performing concert improvisations with pianist Donal Fox; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an instrumentalist, singer, director/music director/conductor and actor, he has performed and recorded for Broadway and Off-Broadway, commercial recordings, television, radio, videos, and movie soundtracks. More info at www.ThomasPiercy.com
MIKA TANAKA
A native of Tokyo, pianist Mika Tanaka has performed extensively in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the US, France, England, and Japan, including Boston's Symphony Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She performs varied concerts of classical music, contemporary works, included her own compositions. She is the pianist for "Duo Voix Claire", a flute/piano duo and "Duo Terre de sienne", a cello/piano duo. Festival appearances include Academie Internationale de Musique de Biarritz (France), Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival(US), Kiyosato International Music Festival(Japan), and Stamford International Music Festival (UK) where she is a pianist in residence. She is the third prize winner of International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in 2008. Mika earned her Bachelor of Music degree in piano art performance from Tokyo College of Music and received her Master's Degree from Conservatoire Europèen de Musique de Paris with the highest honor "l'unanimite de jury". Her principal teachers include Théodore Paraskivesco, Wayman Chin, Seizo Azuma and Katsuko Miura.
A native of Tokyo, pianist Mika Tanaka has performed extensively in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the US, France, England, and Japan, including Boston's Symphony Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She performs varied concerts of classical music, contemporary works, included her own compositions. She is the pianist for "Duo Voix Claire", a flute/piano duo and "Duo Terre de sienne", a cello/piano duo. Festival appearances include Academie Internationale de Musique de Biarritz (France), Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival(US), Kiyosato International Music Festival(Japan), and Stamford International Music Festival (UK) where she is a pianist in residence. She is the third prize winner of International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in 2008. Mika earned her Bachelor of Music degree in piano art performance from Tokyo College of Music and received her Master's Degree from Conservatoire Europèen de Musique de Paris with the highest honor "l'unanimite de jury". Her principal teachers include Théodore Paraskivesco, Wayman Chin, Seizo Azuma and Katsuko Miura.
ELIZABETH BROWN
A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brown's music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe. She has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Newband, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, the Cary Trust, and NYFA. She is the only musician to have both played with Orpheus and also written for them. She combines a successful composing career with an extremely diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles.
Brown began studying shakuhachi in 1984 and its music has been a major influence on her musical language. She is celebrated both here and in Japan for her compositions and performances combining eastern and western sensibilities. This past season alone, Shinshoufuukei (An Imagined Landscape) won Grand Prize in the Makino Yutaka Music Award Composition Competition for Japanese traditional instrument orchestra, and Mirage was a prizewinner in the SGCM Shakuhachi Composition Competition 2010, with performances in Tokyo's Kioi Hall and Tokyo Opera City, Takemitsu Memorial. Music from Japan presented the Japanese premiere of Rubicon in Fukushima prefecture, performed by members of Tokyo’s celebrated Reigakusha gagaku orchestra. Music from Japan also commissioned fragments for the moon, for concerts featuring Brown with nohkan/shinobue artist Kohei Nishikawa in February 2011 in New York City and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Brown was an Artist-in-Residence in the Grand Canyon, continuing work on a series of solo shakuhachi pieces inspired by particular places in nature. In 2008/2009, she lived in Japan on a Cultural Exchange Fellowship supported by the US/Japan Friendship Commission and was invited to perform at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2012 in Kyoto. www.ElizabethBrownComposer.com
A Juilliard graduate and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Brown's music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe. She has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Newband, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, the Cary Trust, and NYFA. She is the only musician to have both played with Orpheus and also written for them. She combines a successful composing career with an extremely diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, and theremin in a wide variety of musical circles.
Brown began studying shakuhachi in 1984 and its music has been a major influence on her musical language. She is celebrated both here and in Japan for her compositions and performances combining eastern and western sensibilities. This past season alone, Shinshoufuukei (An Imagined Landscape) won Grand Prize in the Makino Yutaka Music Award Composition Competition for Japanese traditional instrument orchestra, and Mirage was a prizewinner in the SGCM Shakuhachi Composition Competition 2010, with performances in Tokyo's Kioi Hall and Tokyo Opera City, Takemitsu Memorial. Music from Japan presented the Japanese premiere of Rubicon in Fukushima prefecture, performed by members of Tokyo’s celebrated Reigakusha gagaku orchestra. Music from Japan also commissioned fragments for the moon, for concerts featuring Brown with nohkan/shinobue artist Kohei Nishikawa in February 2011 in New York City and at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Brown was an Artist-in-Residence in the Grand Canyon, continuing work on a series of solo shakuhachi pieces inspired by particular places in nature. In 2008/2009, she lived in Japan on a Cultural Exchange Fellowship supported by the US/Japan Friendship Commission and was invited to perform at the World Shakuhachi Festival 2012 in Kyoto. www.ElizabethBrownComposer.com
LINDSAY DUGAN
Lindsay Dugan has been playing shakuhachi since 2003. Initially studying with internationally renowned performer Riley Lee, Lindsay completed a Masters in shakuhachi performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He was then was awarded a Monbukagakushou scholarship to study at Tokyo Geijitsu Daigaku, where he is currently studying Kinko-ryu shakuhachi under the tutelage of Jumei Tokumaru.
Lindsay Dugan has been playing shakuhachi since 2003. Initially studying with internationally renowned performer Riley Lee, Lindsay completed a Masters in shakuhachi performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He was then was awarded a Monbukagakushou scholarship to study at Tokyo Geijitsu Daigaku, where he is currently studying Kinko-ryu shakuhachi under the tutelage of Jumei Tokumaru.
CHRISTINA BOERS
Photographer Christina Boers was born in the Netherlands and moved to New York in 1982. In 1988 she attended The Center for the Media Arts to expand her photographic knowledge and that was the beginning of her professional career as a photographer. She curated and participated in a multi-media exhibition: Fly-by-Night Salon presents: Just like real life - Artists Approach Nature at CB's 313 Gallery in the Bowery - NYC from December 2, 1992 through January 9, 1993. Exhibited her work at the Ryan Center Community Health Center in NYC in 2001 and 2002.
She has been very active in "Hell's Kitchen"; the neighborhood she lives in. As the president of the 46th street Block Association and as a member of Friends of Pier 84 (fighting the location of a heliport on Pier 84 and succeeded) and in 1997 as a member of the Clinton Special District Coalition opposing the application for a change in the zoning regulation for Hell's Kitchen.
Since 2007 she has dedicated most of her time to her commercial photographic career.
Photographer Christina Boers was born in the Netherlands and moved to New York in 1982. In 1988 she attended The Center for the Media Arts to expand her photographic knowledge and that was the beginning of her professional career as a photographer. She curated and participated in a multi-media exhibition: Fly-by-Night Salon presents: Just like real life - Artists Approach Nature at CB's 313 Gallery in the Bowery - NYC from December 2, 1992 through January 9, 1993. Exhibited her work at the Ryan Center Community Health Center in NYC in 2001 and 2002.
She has been very active in "Hell's Kitchen"; the neighborhood she lives in. As the president of the 46th street Block Association and as a member of Friends of Pier 84 (fighting the location of a heliport on Pier 84 and succeeded) and in 1997 as a member of the Clinton Special District Coalition opposing the application for a change in the zoning regulation for Hell's Kitchen.
Since 2007 she has dedicated most of her time to her commercial photographic career.