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<\/a><\/p>\n“Tokyo to New York\u201d – under the direction of Thomas Piercy – celebrates connections between Tokyo and New York City with a series of concerts featuring new works composed for Western classical instruments as well as traditional Japanese
\ninstruments including the hichiriki, shakuhachi, sho, and koto.<\/p>\n
The concerts include a wide variety of styles of music, from Japanese avant-garde to American contemporary classical, abstract to minimalism, neo-Romantic to tango nuevo, J-pop to jazz-influenced pieces. The composers have ranged from 19 to 92 years of age. They come from all walks of life and experience: from university students to university professors; from self-taught composers to composers with Ph.Ds; from emerging composers to composers that have won such prominent awards as the Takemitsu Prize, Grammy Award, Latin Grammy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. The musicians of \u201cTokyo to New York\u201d have had the opportunity to work with many of the Japanese and American composers programmed in these concerts, and since 2012, \u201cTokyo to New York\u201d has performed over 60 world premiers and numerous Japan and United States Premiers.<\/p>\n