Thin Edge New Music Collective Travels to Japan:
Atelier-Jaku Presents:
August 30th, 2018, 7-9pm- Koen-Dori Classics 公園通りクラシックス , Tokyo
September 4th, 2018 7:30-9:30 Ftarri, Tokyo
September 6th, -7-9pm Super-Deluxe 公園通りクラシックス, Tokyo
Office-Deku Presents:
September 2nd, 2018 4-6pm Studio Take Who, Fukui,
August 30th- TENMC’s co-artistic directors Cheryl Duvall (piano) and Ilana Waniuk (violin) present solo and duo works with electronics, highlights from their cutting-edge repertoire from 8 years on the Toronto scene. The concert will include Japanese premieres of works by grand dame of new music Kaija Saariaho, Canadian new music superstar Linda Catlin Smith, Tokyo-born Canadian Kotoka Suzuki, and Toronto-based rising star Brian Harman. They are also jumping head-first into exploring the music of young Tokyo composers, performing Yuka Shibuya’s View from the round window and Takahiro Kuroda’s Two Bows.
September 2nd-TENMC performs works by Linda Catlin Smith, Takeo Hoshiya, Yuka Shibuya and Mozart. TENMC will be joined by Japanese clarinetist extraordinaire Hideo Kikuchi, for Aram Khachaturian's dynamic trio and also by students from Fukui University for a performance of John Cage's 'Five'.
Sept 5th -Partnering with Tokyo improv veterans Ko Ishikawaon shō and Miyama McQueen-Tokita on 17-string koto for the first time, the TENMC duo will bring years of improv experience to a dynamic quartet of eastern and western sounds created in the moment.
Sept 6th-TENMC will give the Japanese premiere of Maria de Alvear’s 'Thinking', a monumental, powerful hour-long multimedia work for violin, piano, and live video. The live video is interwoven with images of the sea off Newfoundland, Canada’s easternmost province. Just a few hundred kilometres over the frigid North Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland is Iceland, the setting of Daryl Jamieson’s 'utamakura 2: Arnardalur'. It is based on around a saga and features video and audio recordings Jamieson made in northwest Iceland. The piece was written for TENMC for this Japan tour. The concert will begin with Takeo Hoshiya's 'Ancestral Song 2'.
TENMC's concerts in Tokyo are presented by Atelier Jaku and Office-Deku in Fukui.
TENMC's tour to Japan has been made possible with generous support by the Canada Council for the Arts.
