Yoshihiko Banno: Hanami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Gilbert Galindo: He Rescued Them In Their Peril
Masatora Goya: Spring Shoots
Tomo Hirayama: New York Portrait
Miyuki Ito: Empty Cicada
Paul Yeon Lee: The Scent of Tokyo
David Loeb: Shinro
Joshua Banks Mailman: Drunk Dragonfly Blues
Jun Nagao: Your Kindness
Fernando Otero: One Heart
Gene Pritsker: 'Ta-Ka-Ki-Ga-Wa'
Chatori Shimizu: NEOSN
Hifumi Shimoyama: Amalgam
Tomoko Uzawa: Original Sin of Fallen Angel
Atsushi Yoshinaka: Resonance

"Tokyo to New York” celebrates connections between Tokyo and New York City. The concert feature new works composed for Western classical instruments as well as traditional Japanese instruments. They include a wide variety of styles of music, from Japanese avant-garde to American contemporary classical, abstract to minimalism, neo-Romantic to tango nuevo, J-pop to jazz-influenced pieces.

The New York Times selected a recent “Tokyo to New York” concert as a critics’ pick concert of the week; NYClassical Review wrote of a “Tokyo to New York” concert as a season highlight; and a review from Lucid Culture Magazine described a “Tokyo to New York” concert as "…a fascinatingly eclectic, virtuosic program of new chamber works."

Performers:

Thomas Piercy: Clarinet, Hichiriki

Taka Kigawa: Piano

Pablo Aslan: Bass

James Nyoraku Schlefer: Shakuhachi