Sakura Tea
Sunday, May 21, at 4:00 p.m.
Tenri Cultural Institute – 43A West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Admission: $25/$15 seniors and students
Kyo-Shin-An Arts presents its final concert of the season with Sakura Tea, a program of traditional and contemporary music for Japanese instruments and cello featuring Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto and shamisen; Sumie Kaneko, koto and shamisen; James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi; and Hikaru Tamaki, cello.
Recipient of the 2013 and 2016 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, Kyo-Shin-An Arts is a contemporary music organization dedicated to the integration of traditional Japanese instruments such as koto, shakuhachi, and shamisen into Western classical composition.
PROGRAM
- Kaito Nakahori: New Work – World premiere
- Daron Hagen: Misteriosoi – NY premiere
- Thomas Osborne: Circles of Light
- James Nyoraku Schlefer: We Shall (Surely) Meet Again – World premiere of a Kyo-Shin-An Commission
- Yamase Shoin I: Miyako no Haru 都の春 (Spring in the Capitol)
To purchase tickets, please visit the event’s Brown Paper Tickets page.