jazz band, and the jazz /hip-hop Rogue State band. On the national stage, Ikawa has

toured with the electronic-classical/hip-hop group DBR and Mission.

As a composer, Ikawa received a commission in 2008 from the Modern Music

Society ofTokyo. In 2007, her first orchestral work for film premiered in Lincoln

Center’s Walter Reade Theater, and she was awarded a full scholarship from the

Film Music Museum in California to study and record at the NYU/ASCAP Film

Scoring Workshop.

Born in Tokyo,Japan, and raised in New York, Ikawa explores ways to express

her Asian roots and integrates Japanese folk melodies into her performance style,

most notably in her pieces Motherland and Folk Song. She has also dedicated two 

of her compositions, Peace Requiem and DearAsia, to a Japanese journalist killed 

in Myanmar in 2007 and to the victims of Sumatra’s 2004 earthquake, respectively. 

In 2005, Ikawa released her recording Color ofDreams, and in 2008, she started

The Bridge Project atJazz fdouse Alfie in Roppongi, Tokyo, to promote fellowship 

between up-and-coming musicians of New York and Japan.

Ikawa holds a bachelor’s degree from The New School ofNew York and

received the Henry and Gill Block Scholarship in 2002. She also holds a bachelor’s

degree from the International Christian University in Tokyo and is currently working on her master’s degree in jazz performance/composition, synthesis, and film

scoring at New York University.

Program Note

Redemption Songs & Sonatas is rooted in a world view of civil rights for all. Conceived

and performed by Roumain and Ikawa, this intimate program features some of

DBR’s signature works infused with the spirit of liberation and freedom. From Bob

Marley’s “Redemption Song “to Haitian and Israeli national anthems, Redemption

Songs & Sonatas is a composer’s view of our desire to define ourselves, our world, and 

sometimes, one another.

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Cover Keith Anden Achepohl, Capriccio

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76TH SEASON OF CONCERTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2018 / NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Program

Redemption Songs & Sonatas

Daniel Bernard Roumain, violin, composer

Yayoi Ikawa, piano

FEBRUARY 4, 2018/3:30

WEST BUILDING, WEST GARDEN COURT

Daniel Bernard Roumain (b. 1971)

“The Need to Follow”

“Filter”

“The Loss”

“Our Country,” based on

“My Country, ’Tis ofThee”

Composer unknown

Samuel F. Smith (1808-1895), lyrics

Arr. Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain

“Numerical Music”

“Simone”

“JMDL”

“Grace,” based on “Amazing Grace”

John Newton (1725-1807)

Arr. Daniel Bernard Roumain

“The Haitian National Anthem”

Nicolas Geffrard (1871-1930),

composer

Justin Lherisson (1873-1907), lyrics

Arr. Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain

“Navassa’s National Anthem”

“Hip-Hop Study & Etude in E Minor”

Bob Marley (1945-1981)

“Redemption Song”

Arr. Daniel Bernard Roumain

The Musicians

DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN

An acclaimed composer and performer, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) has been

commissioned by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. “About as omnivorous

as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR is one ofthe few composers

whose collaborations traverse the worlds of Philip Glass, Bill T.Jones, Savion Glover, 

and Lady Gaga.

Known for his signature violin sounds infused with a myriad of both electronic

and urban music influences, DBR takes his genre-bending music beyond the proscenium. His work with ESPN was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding

Musical Composition. He has been the keynote performer at technology conferences

and written large-scale, site-specific music for public parks. In 2000, DBR made 

his Carnegie Hall debut with the American Composers Orchestra, performing his

Harlem Essay for Orchestra, a Whitaker commission. Subsequently, he composed

works for the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Stuttgart Symphony that included

performances at Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress, among other venues.

DBR’s commitment to arts education has garnered long-term relationships with

many universities, orchestras, and performing arts centers. He earned his doctorate

in music composition from the University ofMichigan and is currently a Professor

of Practice at Arizona State University.

An avid arts industry leader, DBR serves on the board of directors for the League

ofAmerican Orchestras and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP),

and Creative Capital. He is also on the advisory committee ofthe Sphinx Organization and co-chaired the 2015 and 2016 APAP conferences. DBR is currently working

on We Shall Not Be Moved, a chamber opera commissioned by Opera Philadelphia,

with a libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and direction by Bill T.Jones.

YAYOI IKAWA

With dynamic yet lyrical imagination—whether on her leader projects or in her

work as a side musician or as a participant in a Sunday service at an African-American

church—Yayoi Ikawa always speaks to the soul directly through her music and its

full range of emotions.

Ikawa performs regularly in New York City as a pianist with such world-famous

jazz musicians as Reggie Workman, YdctorJones, Howard Johnson, and Charlie

Persip. She was the only Japanese musician in the World Music Concert, One Voice,

One World, at Town Hall in 2002, and later participated on Teo Macero’s last recording as a pianist/soloist with the New York University Jazz Orchestra in 2007. Since 

2005, she has been the house pianist forJazz at Shabazz in Harlem, and a member of

several groups, including Billy Fox’s Kitsune Ensemble,Jonathan Powell’s electronic