“Temple of Time” invites listeners on a transcendent musical journey that spans centuries and cultures. The program begins with time-honored works from Japan and Europe, then moves through a diverse landscape of compositions shaped by the meeting of East and West. Along the way, the music draws inspiration from Asian philosophies, architecture, and literature—revealing how cultural exchange has shaped artistic expression across time. From ancient traditions to modern interpretations, each piece offers a glimpse into the ways music can transcend borders, reflect shared human values, and create a timeless space where history, place, and spirit converge.

Program:

Miyagi Michio: Haru no Umi for koto and violin (1932)

Yamada Kengyō: Sakuragari for koto (circa 1810)

Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonate a Quattro No. 4 for string quartet (circa 1725)

Temples of East Asia

The Souls of Adashino Nenbutsu-ji (2021, Paul Poston)

Woljeongsa (2014, Nathan Schram)

Zai gu Miao Ji (2021, Cosimo Carovani)

Daron Hagen: Koto Concerto "Genji" for koto and string quartet (2011)

Program:

• Thomas Osborne: Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven for koto, violin and cello

• Lei Liang: Gobi Canticle for violin and viola

• Daron Hagen: Heike Quinto “Appassionato” for koto and cello

• Jay Reise: Orpheus in Meikai (III. The Journey) for koto and string quartet

• Mori Madoka: Waka for koto, violin and cello

• Mori Madoka: Japanese Song Medley for koto and string quartet

Artists:

Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto

Keiko Tokunaga, violin

Sean Wang, violin

Andrew Gonzalez, viola

Hikaru Tamaki, violoncello

Details coming soon!

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto/Voice

gamin, saenghwang/piri

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Emilie-Anne Gendron, Violin

Andy Lin, Viola/Erhu

Hikaru Tamaki, Cello

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Musicians of INTERWOVEN perform some of the ensemble’s iconic chamber music selections for Koto, Shamisen and string quartet in Japan’s renowned temple from the Kamakura Era. The event will include private tour of the temple’s famous garden, live performance of intercultural music and buffet-style dinner provided by Kamakura’s award-winning French restaurant.

Musicians of INTERWOVEN will perform at the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC), Embassy of Japan. The concert, which will be followed by Yoko’s mini-lecture, will focus on the 1300-year history of koto music.

Thursday, September18th, 6:30 pm

Japan Information and Cultural Center, Embassy of Japan

Please visit JICC’s website for more information

Members of INTERWOVEN will join New Asia Chamber Music Society’s summer concert. The program will feature Michael Ippolito’s work, “Between Worlds” for shamisen and string quartet as well as Daron Hagen’s “Koto Concerto: Genji” for Koto and String Quartet.

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Shamisen/Koto/Voice

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Sean Wang, Violin

Andy Lin, Viola

Hikaru Tamaki, Cello

INTERWOVEN is honored to introduce the Eastern Asian musical culture and tradition interlaced with European Classical music in Memphis area, as a part of the PRIZM Chamber Music Festival 2025.

Members of INTERWOVEN will teach, interact and collaborate with the students of the PRIZM Summer Camp!

Wendy Chu will perform Lotus Fantaisie, a dance on the lyra choreographed in collaboration with her mentor Kris Olness, and inspired by the heroes and stories of Wuxia, the contemporary Chinese literary genre of martial arts fantasy. Music is based on themes from the soundtrack of The Mysterious Lotus Casebook by Ivyan Yan and Jie Nan, as well as Senbonzakura by Kurousa P., in an original arrangement by Grammy Award winner Keiko Tokunaga, artistic director and violinist of the INTERWOVEN ensemble. String trio will also feature Hikaru Tamaki on the cello and Andy Lin on the Erhu. (Mr. Lin's alternate is violist Andrew Gonzalez) 

INTERWOVEN’s very own gamin presents “Weaving the Sounds Together”, a mini residency program that includes lectures, workshops and a performance of multicultural contemporary compositions that feature traditional Korean instruments: piri, saenghwang and taeppyongso.

Steph brings her band back to Joe's Pub for a spring performance in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month! They'll also be celebrating the release of her newest recording Dragon, a composition for erhu and string trio commissioned and performed by the NYC-based multicultural chamber ensemble INTERWOVEN.

Stephanie Chou is a composer/saxophonist/singer who blends influences from her Chinese heritage with Western jazz and pop to create a bracingly original sound. Tonight's show will feature some premieres of newly-written material and classics from her eclectic and wide-ranging body of work. The program includes some fan-favorites including strings, a special string quartet performance of Dragon,  and more. Don't miss their only NYC show this season!

Stephanie Chou - voice, alto saxophone, compositions
Andy Lin - erhu, viola, violin
Jason Yeager - piano
Matt Aronoff - bass
Ronen Itzik - drums, percussion
Keiko Tokunaga - violin
Andrew Gonzalez - viola
Hikaru Tamaki - cello

“Giving permanence to invisible, ever-moving lines and shapes I perceive from the world”

Inspired by the words of Ōsumi Yukie, a master of contemporary Japanese metalwork, INTERWOVEN performs intercultural compositions that weave together musical and artistic threads that represent diverse aesthetics, traditions and history.

Works by Daron Hagen, Michael Ippolito, as well as a world premiere performance of Madoka Mori’s new composition.

INTERWOVEN ‘s mini residency at Colby College is to include workshops with the ethnomusicology and composition departments, as well as a recital. More details soon!

Odeon Chamber Music Series celebrates 25 years of bringing world-class chamber music to Falls Church, VA.

INTERWOVEN will bring a program that features two Japanese Hougaku instruments: Koto and Shamisen.

INTERWOVEN’s Virginia Tour begins at the Kirkwood Presbyterian Church in Spring Field, VA.

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto/Shamisen/Voice

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Mihai Marica, Violoncello

Program TBA

This performance is made possible by: Canada Council for the Arts

Persented by: Musewest

Program TBD

GRAMMY award-winning violinist Keiko Tokunaga and shamisen/koto player Yoko from Ensemble INTERWOVEN  joining cellist Ani Kalayjian to perform in a program titled "Memoirs of the Earth", featuring works that have nature as an inspiration, the stunning music by Japanese composers.

FantAsia!, by INTERWOVEN, is a concert program and event celebrating the composition of Asian folklore-inspired works on the night of the Lunar New Year 2024. Taking place in Washington Heights, this project will include three original composition commissions, three world premiere performances, include a live discussion held at intermission with our commissioned composers, Stephanie Chou, Vicente Hansen Atría, and Michael Ippolito, and finish with a post-concert reception of Asian delicacies curated by a neighborhood Asian restaurant.

INTERWOVEN returns to Elizabeth Street Garden for a preview event of Chinatown Arts Week 2023! It is a free performance— come by and enjoy the music in one of the most beloved parks in New York City.

INTERWOVEN and New Asia Chamber Music Society join forces in presenting a program featuring Yoko Reikano Kimura.

This event is reserved for the Patrons of the MET.

The New Asia Chamber Music Society x INTERWOVEN

Taiwanese-born violist and erhu player Wei-Yang Andy Lin is one of the most important performers specializing in both western and eastern instruments. In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Lin will be joined by members of the New Asia Chamber Music Society and the chamber ensemble INTERWOVEN.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served from 5:30 to 6 pm and resume after the conversation or concert until 7:30 pm. Conversations and Concerts for Patrons are open to The Champion’s Circle and above. Please show your Patron card, which admits two, at the Patrons Lounge.

For more information, visit https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/members/insidethemet

Center for Remembering and Sharing presents: INTERWOVEN at Resobox

Program:

JungYoon Wie: A Popular Tune for string quartet

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Sekiheki no Fu - Red Cliff for Koto, Erhu and Voice

Yang Yong: River Songs for Erhu and Cello

Takuma Itoh: Crosscurrents for Shamisen and Violin

Debussy: String Quartet

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Shamisen/Voice

Andy Lin, Erhu/Viola

Emilie-Anne Gendron & Keiko Tokunaga, Violins

Nan-Cheng Chen, Cello

Program:

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Sekiheki no Fu (Red Cliff), arranged for Koto and Erhu

Kin'ichi Nakanoshima: Banshiki-cho for Shamisen

Yang Yong: River Songs

Takuma Itoh: Crosscurrents

Tien-Hua Liu: Walking forwards the bright future

Daron Hagen: Selections from Heike Quinto

Thomas Osborne: Tumbling from the Ninth Height of Heaven

Yoko Reikano Kimura, Koto/Shamisen/Voice

Andy Lin, Erhu/Viola

Keiko Tokunaga, Violin

Hikaru Tamaki, Cello

INTERWOVEN is one of the 14 chosen ensembles to be featured at the Chamber Music America Conference 2023 in New York City.

Program

Thomas Osborne: Tumbling From the Ninth Height of Heaven for Koto, Violin and Cello

Chen YaoXin & Liu TianHua: Wildlife Suite for Erhu and String Trio

Daron Hagen: Genji (V. Vanished Into the Clouds) for Koto and String Quartet

Nong is an ancient Korean term meaning “to play”—here, the joy of discovering new ways of playing when different cultures intersect. gamin, a Korean-born NYC-based multi-instrumentalist specializing in traditional Korean wind, along with her collaborators, places instruments and concepts from traditional Korean music alongside a variety of American musical elements. 

On the program, Theodore Wiprud’s Mudang for Piri (a double-reed bamboo oboe) incorporates shamanic energy that ranges from meditation to ecstasy. Korean composer Yoon-Ji Lee dedicates her composition to ‘comfort women’ (victims of human trafficking throughout Japan-occupied East Asia, 1932-1945) in her work for taepyungso (a double-reed shawn) and strings. Works by William David Cooper weave Western string instruments with Korean winds, incorporating folk tunes and different tuning systems. Nathan Schram, Brooklyn-based composer and GRAMMY-winning violist, highlights the organic, almost guttural expressions with an immovable, spacious rhythmic underpinning of Korean traditional music. Mexico-born, France-based composer Alejandro Mata’s independent research into Korean heritage, music, and history has deeply influenced his innovative new composition for saenghwang(Korean mouth-organ) and string quartet, and gamin’s composition broadens the range of the new musical realm with her traditional improvisatory ideas of Korean folk music.

With Nong, gamin and her collaborators—NY-based multicultural ensemble INTERWOVEN and electronic sound artist Yoon-Ji Lee—hope to diversify American audiences’ aesthetic understanding of East Asia, which is all too often painted in broad strokes. The musicians from South Korea, Taiwan, China and Japan will weave their sounds together in hopes that their collaboration would inspire peaceful and harmonious relationships amongst the North Eastern Asian countries despite their tumultuous history, as well as to inspire new generations of American composers and musicians to embrace the inherent multiculturalism of American music by bringing their crafts with rich traditions from around the world, and approach music-making with the distinct goal of bridging cultural divides.

CRS presents Vol. 3 of AMI, a new series of chamber concerts by the international ensemble INTERWOVEN in the award-winning White Room at CRS. The concert will take place on Saturday, October 29 at 7:30 pm and will feature Andy Weiyan Lin (erhu/viola) with Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin), Keiko Tokunaga (violin), Matthew Cohen (viola), and Nan-Cheng Chen (cello), performing Chen Yi's Fiddle Suite for String Quartet as well as shorter selections by Dvorak, Mozart, and others.

INTERWOVEN returns to the beautiful Elizabeth Street Garden at dusk on October 9th! Grab some food and drinks, have a picnic and soak up the amazing scenery of the beloved community garden as INTERWOVEN musicians serenade you with Chinese folk songs, Dvorak and Mozart.

Free admission