Concert-Performance

Tuesday, July 31, 2007, 8pm
Mari Kimura (Tokyo / N.Y.)
& Kinan Azmeh (Damascus / N.Y.)

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Mari Kimura, hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuoso playing at the edge,” is an exceptional violinist/composer. She is widely admired for her revolutionary technique “Subharmonics” as well as for her solo performances of diverse programs that include her own works with that of interactive computer music. New Music Connoisseur described Ms. Kimura as a violinist “who is what Henry Cowell and later John Cage were to the piano in the 1920’s and 30’s,” She has been the recipient of distinguished grants such as the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the Jerome Foundation, Arts International, the Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Since 1998, Ms. Kimura has been teaching a graduate class in Computer Music Performance at The Juilliard School in New York City.

Kinan Azmeh has appeared as a soloist and composer around the world and has appeared in concerts at the Tschaikovsky Grand Hall in Moscow, Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls in New York, Royal Albert Hall in London, and as a soloist under Daniel Barenboim, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC and at opening concert for the Damascus Opera House. Born in Damascus, Syria 1976, Azmeh is the first Arab to be awarded the Nicolay Rubinstein International Competition First Prize in Moscow, Russia, 1997. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, the High Institute of Music and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Damascus, Syria and currently Mr. Azmeh is working towards his doctoral degree at the City University of New York studying with Charles Neidich.

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