Japanese born but Irish resident pianist Izumi has performed extensively throughout Ireland as a solo, orchestral and chamber musician.
Her musical interests span both the classical and improvised music fields and she has performed with some of the leading performers and ensembles from both disciplines including the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, Music 21, Michael D’arcy, Ioana Petcu-Colan, Ken Edge, Cora Venus Lunny, William Butt, and Joachim Roewer from the world of classical music and with Julian Arguelles, Tommy Halferty, Ed Neumeister, Stéphane Payen, Ronan Guilfoyle and Sarah Buechi from the jazz world.
Izumi is a specialist in the performance of contemporary music and has given many premiere performances including the pieces especially written for her.
She is also working on the project of introducing Japanese contemporary music to Europe and her solo album of Japanese and Irish contemporary pieces – mostly all premiere recordings – will was released in 2010 on Diatribe Records.
‘heroic levels of technical fearlessness, stamina and strengh in a programme dominated by flying, rumbling bass lines, hard-driven rhythms and counter-rhythms, and thousands upon thousands of notes – she also created a breathing, slow-burn climax – with a more reflective, often intimate style of playing’.
‘Natural kind of musicianship that never strives too much’.
‘Her easy authority made each piece seem to come across as it should – persuasively’.
Artists /
Izumi Kimura
Biography
Japanese born but Irish resident pianist Izumi has performed extensively throughout Ireland as a solo, orchestral and chamber musician.Her musical interests span both the classical and improvised music fields and she has performed with some of the leading performers and ensembles from both disciplines including the RTE National Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Crash Ensemble, Music 21, Michael D’arcy, Ioana Petcu-Colan, Ken Edge, Cora Venus Lunny, William Butt, and Joachim Roewer from the world of classical music and with Julian Arguelles, Tommy Halferty, Ed Neumeister, Stéphane Payen, Ronan Guilfoyle and Sarah Buechi from the jazz world.
Izumi is a specialist in the performance of contemporary music and has given many premiere performances including the pieces especially written for her.
She is also working on the project of introducing Japanese contemporary music to Europe and her solo album of Japanese and Irish contemporary pieces – mostly all premiere recordings – will was released in 2010 on Diatribe Records.
Releases
Asymmetry
2010Links