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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.

Live at Bau 4

By Gerry Hemingway

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Slivers; Third Story Variation; Bau 4 Assembly.

Gerry Hemingway with Izumi Kimura, Frank Gratkowski and Christian Weber: Live at Bau 4

by Glenn Astarita
August 1, 2026

Drummer and composer Gerry Hemingway has spent five decades proving that percussion can be as harmonically literate as any horn or keyboard. That reputation was forged during his decade with the Anthony Braxton Quartet and expanded through an expansive discography on labels including Auricle, Tzadik, Clean Feed, and Intakt. Now based in Switzerland, Hemingway continues to ...

Gerry Hemingway: Live at Bau 4

by Mark Corroto
August 1, 2026

Touch. It is the word that most often comes to mind when listening to the music of composer and drummer Gerry Hemingway. While rhythm and structure are central to his work, it is touch, the physical act of striking, rubbing, bowing, pressing and releasing that gives his music its distinctive character. Hemingway's performances do more than ...

Gerry Hemingway, OM and Perelman/Sharp/Baptista

by Maurice Hogue
June 29, 2026

It doesn't matter which side of the Atlantic Ocean you consider when talking about master drummer Gerry Hemingway, he is highly respected as one of the most creative drummers ever. Now making his home in Altbüron, Switzerland, Hemingway's focus tends to be on European projects, like his latest Live at Bau 4 with his quartet of ...

Music From Favourite Recordings of 2025

by Maurice Hogue
January 12, 2026

Aside from the two opening tracks from South African drummer Asher Gamedze's upcoming release, A Semblance Of Return, the rest of this show features a track from each of the 25 favourite recordings played on One Man's Jazz in 2025. These were chosen from recordings released by artists from almost 40 different countries. It was a ...

How The Dust Falls

By Izumi Kimura

Label: Auricle Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Waterspear; Third Story; Corners; Dock Driftings; Starbook; Entertainments I; Stillness; Perimeter; Entertainments II; This Waiting Place; Chimneys; Shadowshift; Arrivals; Wishing Well.

Seven Dreams

By Izumi Kimura

Label: Fundacja Sluchaj
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dream Op. 3; Dream Op. 2; Dream Op. 6; Dream Op. 4; Dream Op. 5; Dream Op. 8; Dream Op.9

Butterfly Effect

By Izumi Kimura

Label: Codama Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Hawthorn - Sceach gheal; Spindle - Feoras; Bell Heather - Fraoch Cloigíneach; Holly - Cuileann; Forget-me-not - Lus míonla goirt; Rosebay Willowherb - Lus na tine; Sea Thrift - Rabhán; Snowdrop - Plúirín sneachta; Blackthorn - Draighean; Bog Cotton - Ceannbhán; Herb-robert - Ruithéal rí; Selfheal - Duán ceannchosach; Bramble - Dris; Rain Falling on Sessile Oak - Dair ghaelach; Foxglove - Lus mór.

Glacial Voyage

By Christy Doran

Label: Between the Lines
Released: 2025
Track listing: Breakwater; Inishkea Islands; High Tide; Belmullet; Whale Tea Party; Downpatrick Head; Light Frames; Moon Pull; Blacksod Lighthouse; Horizon's Invitation.