Mari Kimura To Perform At Institute For Advanced Study

Violinist and composer Mari Kimura will perform at the Institute for Advanced Study on May 11 at 7:00 p.m. The outdoor concert will take place in the Institute’s Birch Garden.

“Mari Kimura has expanded the notion of a traditional violinist; she is a composer and performer of new works that embrace the worlds of extended violin technique and interactive computer music,” notes Institute Artist-in-Residence Jon Magnussen. “She has stretched the boundaries of the instrument with her unique ‘subharmonic’ technique, developed to explore the lower limits of the violin’s range.”

Kimura’s performing career has taken her to festivals around the world. Recent appearances include the Spring in Budapest Festival, Musiana Festival in Denmark, Festival Callej�n del Ruido in Mexico, International Bartok Festival in Hungary, Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, and International Computer Music Conference in Thessaloniki, Banff, and San Jose, California. A winner of the ICMC 2001 Commission Award, Kimura will also be the featured soloist at the International Society for Contemporary Music World Music Days in Hong Kong this fall.

Kimura’s concert will feature recent music for acoustic violin, electronics, and interactive computer. The program will include Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape, Conlon Nancarrow’s Tocatta for violin and player piano, Robert Rowe’s Submarine for violin and real time signal processing (written for Kimura), Fantasy for Violin and Synthesizers by Magnussen, and two works by Kimura: Study for Descarga Interactive, for violin and computer, and Six Capriccios for Subharmonics, which incorporates Kimura’s subharmonic technique.

There will be a pre-concert discussion with Kimura, Rowe, and Magnussen on May 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the Dilworth Room on the Institute campus.

The concert is part of the Institute for Advanced Study’s Artist-in-Residence Program. Tickets are free and available to the public. For ticket information call 609-734-8228 or see www.ias.edu/artist-in-residence.