Ami Yamamoto NY Cultural Exchange 2016
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Ami Yamamoto
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
FY27 Term II Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]
Business Overview
As a koto performer, I will be holding four performances and one workshop in New York. Since 2013, I have been creating a world of music and video with the group "Strings & Serpents," a piano duo (Andy Milne and Benoît Delbecq), a koto duo (Aio Kajigano and Ami Yamamoto), and video (Saki Muroya). Last year, I successfully toured North America, and to plan a new tour from 2017 onward, I have gathered in New York to perform and create. In addition, to broaden my solo activities as a 25-string koto performer and to convey the instrument's characteristics and future potential, I will be holding a solo concert and workshop at "Globus Washitsu," the artistic base of Stephen Globus, who promotes Japanese culture to New Yorkers. I also plan to collaborate with the work of New York-based painter Hisao Hanabusa. Stings & Serpents: Andy Miline (Pf), Benoit Delbecq (Pf), Kajigano Aio (17-string koto), Yamamoto Ami (25-string koto), Muroya Saki (video) (Kajigano Aio and Muroya Saki will not be participating this time. Kimura Reikano (koto) and Calvin Herzig-Anderson will be participating as lighting staff.)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 21st (Thu)
- Venues
- Yamaha Artist Service (New York) Greenwich House (New York) Globus Japanese-style Room (New York)
Profile
[Ami Yamamoto]
25 stringed Soh player. He belonged to Ikuta-ryu Shingen-sha. He studied 25 stringed Soh under Soju NOSAKA as a trainee under the Domestic Training Program for Emerging Artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Since then, he was active mainly as a 25 stringed Soh player. The premiere of new contemporary music, improvisation with piano percussion, whistling and painting, and the addition of songs and narration to create a more free range of expression, and the creation of a unique world through composition.
Released solo album "Tsumugu" in 2015.