IZUMI KIMURA
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Third Stream • Japan

Pianist Izumi Kimura explores between abstract and concrete, improvising and composing. She is curious about things unknown, invisible and inaudible, questions and explores our roles, cultures, languages, attitudes, and beliefs – through the act of improvising music. She has performed extensively throughout the country and abroad since moving to Ireland from Japan in 1995. She has worked with some of the leading performers and ensembles from both disciplines of classical, jazz and improvised music. Her main focus in the past decades are interpretation of contemporary music and improvisation across genres, and merging of both. She has worked in various formats with large institutions, ensembles and small groups, including RTE Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Michael d’Arcy, Mia Cooper, Ken Edge, Benjamin Dwyer, Gerald Barry, John Buckley, Kevin O’Connell, Ian Wilson, Fergus Johnston from the world of classical music, and with jazz and improvising musicians including Barry Guy, Gerry Hemingway, read more...