Peer 2 Peer with Izumi Kimura
Bring your curiosity, open ear and heart. This workshop is a space to explore musical communication and to create spontaneous compositions beyond predetermined ideas and rules. We will make music together simply by playing, which starts with listening.
"Improvisation means coming prepared, but not attached to the preparation. Everything flows into the creative act in progress. Come prepared, but be willing to accept interruptions and invitations. Trust that the product of your preparation is not your papers and plans, but yourself." Stephen Nachmanovitch...
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Peer 2 Peer with Izumi Kimura
Bring your curiosity, open ear and heart. This workshop is a space to explore musical communication and to create spontaneous compositions beyond predetermined ideas and rules. We will make music together simply by playing, which starts with listening.
"Improvisation means coming prepared, but not attached to the preparation. Everything flows into the creative act in progress. Come prepared, but be willing to accept interruptions and invitations. Trust that the product of your preparation is not your papers and plans, but yourself." Stephen Nachmanovitch
"Sometimes we blur the distinction between art and life; sometimes we try to clarify it. We don't stand on one leg. We stand on both.”
"A sound is a sound. To realize this one has to put a stop to studying music." John Cage
Peer 2 Peer is an Arts Council funded event hosted by Irish Women in Jazz, aimed at female musicians who wish to engage in workshops and educational opportunities. The workshop is offered at a reduced cost.
Since moving to Ireland from Japan in 1995, pianist Izumi Kimura has performed extensively throughout the country and abroad.Originally a classical pianist, she branched out and worked with some of the leading performers and ensembles from classical, jazz, and improvised music disciplines.Her main works in recent decades are contemporary improvisations without limitations by genres and styles.
Izumi has worked in various formats with institutions, ensembles and chamber groups, including Crash Ensemble, Michael d'Arcy, Mia Cooper, Ken Edge, Benjamin Dwyer, Bill Dowdall, Paul Roe, Cora Venus Lunny, and many more from the world of classical/contemporary classical music, and with jazz and improvising musicians including Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway, Tommy Halferty, Ronan Guilfoyle, Michael Buckley, Joe O'Callaghan, Oki Itaru, Makoto Sato, Dominique Pifarély, Benoît Delbecq, Stéphane Payen, Lina Andonovska, Mathew Jacobson, Phil Robson, Christine Tobin and many more. She has collaborated with artists and sound artists, including Anthony Kelly, David Stalling, Jaki Irvine and Helen O'Connell.
"Kimura brings a combination of feral creativity and technical virtuosity to the stage that belies her calm demeanour" The Irish Times
"Prodigiously fluent quicksilver imagination" Marlbank
"Meditative, subtly provocative, impressionistic and consistently alluring" All About Jazz
Sometimes ephemeral, Kimura's pianism evokes the emotions with the fleeting and even fragile sensitivities.” Jazz Tokyo
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