Random Access Music: TOKYO TO NEW YORK 東京とNY
$25 ($10 senior/student)
- Alicia "Lish" Lindsey, flute
- Thomas Piercy, clarinet
- Tomina Parvanova Lyden, harp
- Josh Perry, percussion
- Tengku Irfan, piano
Toru Takemitsu — Rain Spell
Joji Yuasa — A Winter Day
Gilbert Galindo — Where are you, Spirit Most High (world premiere)
Masatora Goya — Deep Dive (world premiere)
Frances White — Phases of the Moonflower (world premiere)
Random Access Music, under the Artistic Direction of Thomas Piercy, presents masterpieces from 20th-century Japanese avant-garde composers Yoshio Hachimura, Toru Takemitsu, and Joji Yuasa. These three pieces, rarely performed together in concert, are joined by world premieres composed for the same instrumentation by NYC-based RAM composers Gilbert Galindo, Masatora Goya, and Frances White.
These quintets for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano are performed by the award-winning members of the RAM Players: Lish Lindsey, flute; Thomas Piercy, clarinet; Tomina Parvanova, harp; Josh Perry, percussion; and Tengku Irfan, piano.
The Hachimura, Takemitsu, and Yuasa works were composed for the critically acclaimed and ground-breaking Sound Space Ark ensemble. Piercy regularly works with composer Yuasa, and performed these Sound Ark pieces in a 2017 concert in Tokyo at the National Noh Theatre with the original Sound Ark pianist Aki Takahashi.