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Izumi Kimura

Pianist Izumi Kimura explores between abstract and concrete, improvising and composing. She has performed extensively throughout Ireland and abroad since moving from Japan in 1995, and worked with some of the leading performers and ensembles from both disciplines of classical, jazz and improvised music, including RTE Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Michael d’Arcy, Mia Cooper, Ken Edge, Benjamin Dwyer, Gerald Barry, John Buckley, Kevin O’Connell, Ian Wilson, Fergus Johnston from the world of classical music, and with jazz and improvising musicians including Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway, Tommy Halferty, Ronan Guilfoyle, Michael Buckley, Joe O’Callaghan, Oki Itaru, Dominique Pifarély, Benoît Delbecq, Stéphane Payen, Marco Colonna, Sarah Buechi, Lina Andonovska, Mathew Jacobson, Nick Roth, Colm O’Hara, Cora Venus Lunny. She has appeared in the festivals including RTE Living Music Festival, Boyle Arts Festival, Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ghent Street Festival of New Music, Music 21’s ‘Brazil Now’, ‘Artes Da Irlanda’ in Sao Paolo, Creative Connexions in Sitges, Ad Libitum Festival in Warsaw, and many more.

Aleka Potinga: Romania: Songs Of Love And Longing

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2024

You can take singer/cellist Aleka Potinga out of Romania, but you cannot take Romania out of her musical soul. Classically trained in Bucharest, and Dublin-based since 2012, Potinga has slotted into the city's fluid jazz/improvised music scenes, working with Izumi Kimura, Ronan Guilfoyle, Tommy Halferty and Cello Ireland. Her debut album Person I Knew (Self-Produced, 2019) ...

Kairos

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2023
Track listing: Dendrochronology; Water Thief; Day Into Night; Chronostrata; Cloud Echoes; .Kairos; Over The Tide; Circadian Twilight.

Izumi Kimura: Translating The World Into Music

by Ian Patterson
December 13, 2023

Music may not be the most important thing in the world, not with all the turmoil that is going on, but it would be hard to envisage life without it. At the very least music can be a balm in stormy times, a distraction from the madness. Plenty of philosophers have waxed lyrical about ...

Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway: Kairos

by Ian Patterson
October 28, 2023

In ancient Greek kairos means the right time for action. The word relates both to archery and weaving. It is an apt title for pianist Izumi Kimura and drummer/percussionist Gerry Hemingway's debut duo album, as in-the-moment intent, precision and intricacy course through their dialogues. No strangers to one another, they first played as duo in 2016, ...

Andy Emler, Cécile Broché, Ember Trio & Maurice Louca

by Maurice Hogue
September 19, 2023

No visa or passports required for this edition of One Man's Jazz as the music is on a bit of European jaunt with artists from France: pianist Andy Emler, pianist Bruno Angelini & Papanosh; Belgium: violinist Cécile Broché & saxophonist Jordi Grognard; Norway: drummer Gard Nilssen; Switzerland: drummer Gerry Hemingway & saxophonist Christoph Irniger; Germany: drummer ...

Izumi Kimura & Cora Venus Lunny: Invisible Resistances

by Ian Patterson
January 25, 2023

Take two of contemporary music's most versatile improvising musicians, give them free reign to play and something of real worth is likely to arise. That is the philosophy of Farpoint Recordings, an Irish label founded by Anthony Kelly and David Stalling in 2004. Their trust in pianist Izumi Kimura and violinist/viola player Cora Venus Lunny is ...

Invisible Resistances

Label: Farpoint Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Irides; Invisible Resistances i: The Gathered Winds; Invisible Resistances ii: The Merrow’s Work; Invisible Resistances iii: Distilling Motion; An Ember; Chant; Refraction of Light; Sea Firefly; Rain Glow.

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box

by Ian Patterson
November 30, 2022

Jazz Promotion Network Irish Showcases At Black Box Black Box Jazz Promotion Network Conference jny:Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3, 2022 As a UNESCO City of Music and as the host of Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference (see separate article), Belfast was expected to deliver on the musical front. And ...

Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022

by Ian Patterson
November 29, 2022

Jazz Promotion Network Conference 2022 The MAC jny: Belfast, Northern Ireland November 3-4, 2022 Jazz Promotion Network's (JPN) annual conference saw over one hundred delegates gather at Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC) for two days of talks, exchange of ideas and music showcases (see separate article). Founded around a decade ...