Selen Gülün & Michiyo Yagi at Koendori Classics, Tokyo

Selen Gülün and Michiyo Yagi come together for their first concert together… Don’t miss it!

Selen Gülün セレン・ギュリュン (piano, synth, voice)

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Michiyo Yagi   八木美知依  (21-string koto, 17- and 18-string bass kotos, 13-string koto, electronics, voice)

https://michiyoyagi.com

2019年5月 24日 (金)  |  May 24, 2019  (Fri)

19:00 Open / 19:30 Start

渋谷 公園通りクラシックス / Shibuya Koen-Dori Classics:

Address: 東京都渋谷区宇田川町19-5 東京山手教会B1F

19-5 Udagawachō, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (6 min. walk from Shibuya Station)

Map: http://koendoriclassics.com/access/

チャージ : 予約: ￥3,000  当日: ￥3,500

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[English below]

SELEN GÜLÜN | セレン・ギュリュン

作曲家、ピアニスト、歌手、編曲者。様々な現代音楽のスタイルでの作曲やパフォーマンスが特徴。彼女が作曲した音楽は、母国トルコのみならず、オーストリア、ドイツ、オランダ、英国、スウェーデン、デンマーク、イタリア、フランス、米国、ブラジル、日本、カンボジア、パキスタン、リトアニア、ロシア、モザンビーク等、世界各国で演奏されている。これまでにCDアルバム、「Just About Jazz Live 」(recjazz, 2005年)、「Selen Gülün Trio Sürprizler」 (recjazz, 2006年)、「Selen Gülün – SOLO」 (2009年)、「Answers」 (pozitif, 2010年)、「Başka」 (linrecords, 2013年), 「Kadinlar Matinesi」(A.K. Müzik, 2017年)を発表。「Answers」は、ディスクユニオンのJazz Tokyo Weekly Chartにて第6位を獲得、「Başka」は第4位を記録。また、AK Musicより2017年４月発売のライブ盤「Kadinlar Matinesi」はトルコの女性作曲家たちをフューチャーしたコンサートシリーズである。2019年5月発売のアルバム「MANY FACES」は、Selen Gülünの新作デュオアルバムで、ハクエイ・キム（p）、太田惠資（vln）、五十嵐一生 (tpt)、Marcello Allulli（ts）が日本とイタリアでライブでレコーディングしたものです。 作曲作品はthe Dartford Symphony Orchestra 、the Vellinger String Quartet (UK), Ensemble TRIS (Austria),、sa.ne.na Percussion Ensemble、Istanbul Modern Music Ensemble (Turkey)などに取り上げられている。Charles Mingus Composition Award 1998 (USA), やthe British Council Visiting Arts、Creative Collaboration in Music 2003 (UK), やFondazione Donna Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica’s Artist in Residence Award 2011(Italy) など、数多くの賞を受賞。イスタンブール大学国立コンサーバトリーで音楽を学んだ後、イスタンブール大学経営学科を卒業。その後、イスタンブールのミマール・シナン大学国立コンサーバトリーにて、さらに音楽教育を受ける。1996年には、奨学金を得てバークレー音楽大学に進学。1998年には同校のジャズ作曲学科を首席で卒業。イスタンブールに帰国後、2003年にはIstanbulTechnical UniversityのCenter of Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM)にて音楽の修士号を取得。 彼女はまた、教育者として今もオズイェイン大学およびビルギ大学で教壇に立っており、1998～2015年には、ビルギ大学音楽科にてピアノ、音楽理論、および作曲の教鞭をとっていた。Berklee College of MusicとThe New School (米国), Malmö Academy of Music（スウェーデン）, Utrecht School of the Arts（オランダ）, TEDx Bogazici University（トルコ）において、ニュー・ミュージックとコンテンポラリー・ミュージックに関する講演を、行うなど、ミュージシャンと同時に教育者としての活動も続けている。

“ラズベリーカラーのドレスと黒のハイヒールで、セレンは男性ミュージシャンが支配するミュージックシーンの既成概念を打ち壊し、クラシック音楽で培われた“静寂”とイスタンブールの“エナジー”を自らの作品に散りばめて、ジャズトリオをリードした。”    —The New York Times

“セレンの音楽は時には遠くて時には非常に近い、ただ一曲の短い時間でさえ表情が変化する”   — Downbeat

“点描、印象派、低音、クラスター、モーダル、無調などを含め、彼女のスタイルは古典音楽や現代音楽からのさまざまな影響を受けている．．．表現力豊かで力強い、色彩とダイナミクスに溢れてる。”    — all.about.jazz

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SELEN GÜLÜN

Composer, pianist, vocalist, educator Selen Gülün is one of the most influential and accomplished contemporary musicians to emerge from Istanbul, Turkey. She attained critical acclaim internationally with her music being performed in 20 countries around the world including the USA, Brazil, Japan, Cambodia, Pakistan, Russia, Mozambique, Australia, and all around Europe. Gülün has released six albums: Just About Jazz Live (recjazz, 2005), Selen Gülün Trio Sürprizler (recjazz, 2006), Selen Gülün – SOLO (2009),  Answers (pozitif, 2010), Başka (linrecords,2013), Kadinlar Matinesi (A.K. Müzik, 2017). Answers reached #6 and Başka reached #4 in the Jazz Tokyo Weekly Chart. Gülün / Allulli / De Raymondi’s electroacoustic album KAPI is a multicultural project with her long-term Italian collaborators Marcello Allulli and Emanuele de Raymondi. Kadinlar Matinesi (The Women’s Matinee) was born out of her concert series featuring the works of women composers in Turkey. MANY FACES is Gülün’s new duo album recorded live in Japan and Italy featuring Hakuei Kim (p), Keisuke Ohta (vln), Issei Igarashi (tpt), and Marcello Allulli (ts). The album will be released in 2019. Her compositions have been premiered by the Dartford Symphony Orchestra and the Vellinger String Quartet (UK), Ensemble TRIS (Austria), sa.ne.na Percussion Ensemble, and Istanbul Modern Music Ensemble (Turkey). She has received many awards including the Charles Mingus Composition Award 1998 (USA), the British Council Visiting Arts, Creative Collaboration in Music 2003 (UK), and Fondazione Donna Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica’s Artist in Residence Award 2011 (Italy). She is working on a book commissioned by Fondazione Adkins Chiti in Rome, entitled “Woman Composers of Turkey” that will be published in 2019. She studied music at the Istanbul University and the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatories and graduated from Istanbul University’s Business Administration Department. In 1998, she received her B.A. in Jazz Composition summa cum laude from the Berklee College of Music. She received her Master’s in Music at Istanbul Technical University’s Center of Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM). She taught Piano Performance, Music Theory, and Composition at Istanbul Bilgi University’s Music Department from 1998 to 2015. She has given lectures on new music and contemporary music at the Berklee College of Music (Boston), The New School (New York), the Malmö Academy of Music, the Utrecht School of the Arts, TEDx Bogazici University among others. Gülün moved to Tokyo in 2017 where she has been performing and teaching since.

“In a raspberry mini dress and black high heels, Ms. Gülün led her trio, defying stereotypes in the male-dominated musical world that she inhabits, infusing her works with the serenity of her classical training and the energy of an Istanbul upbringing.” —The New York Times

“Gülün’s music is by turns distant and immediate — often in the span of a single track.” —Downbeat

“In her style, influences from classical and contemporary music rife: pointillism, impressionism, low pitches, clusters, modal, atonal … rich and vibrant, full of different colors and dynamics..” —all.about.jazz

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MICHIYO YAGI  八木美知依  (21-string koto, 17- and 18-string bass kotos, 13-string koto, electronics, voice)

Michiyo Yagi studied the traditional Japanese transverse harp known as the koto under the late Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and graduated from the NHK Professional Training School for Traditional Musicians. During her subsequent tenure as Visiting Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, U.S.A. she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick American composers such as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Conlon Nancarrow, and John Zorn.

Yagi’s debut CD Shizuku was produced by Zorn and released on his Tzadik label in 1999. In 2001 she recorded Yural (BAJ/ewe) with her multi-koto ensemble Paulownia Crush — this group toured Russia under the auspices of the Japan Foundation in 2004. In 2005 Yagi released Seventeen(Zipangu), entirely performed on the giant 17-string bass koto. Live! at SuperDeluxe (Idiolect), a trio performance with Norwegians Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (contrabass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), followed a year later. In 2008 Rikskonsertene, the national concert institute of Norway, sponsored a two-week tour by Yagi, Nilssen-Love, and German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, a trio that has performed internationally since 2006 and released Head On (Idiolect, 2008) and Volda (Idiolect, 2010). Reflexions (Idiolect/Bomba), an album of duets with the experimental New York guitarist Elliott Sharp, was released in 2010.

Yagi’s most recent CD releases are Ichi No Maki [Vol. 1] (Idiolect, 2014), credited to Dōjō, her “power duo” with Japanese jazz drummer Tamaya Honda and featuring guests Nils Peter Molvær (trumpet) and Paal Nilssen-Love; Soul Stream (PNL, 2015), a quartet session with Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, saxophones), Lasse Marhaug (electronics) and Nilssen-Love; and Angular Mass (PNL, 2015), a trio with Marhaug and Nilssen-Love. A second Dōjō CD, an album of ambient music co-produced by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset, and a trio recording with Giovanni Di Domenico (keyboards) and Chris Corsano (drums) are forthcoming. A CD of original compositions featuring Yagi’s vocals and a contemporary classical recording of written and commissioned music are also in development.

An eclectic performer who continually challenges conventions, Yagi has played at the Moers, Kongsberg Jazz, Punkt, Újbuda Jazz, Musique Actuel Victoriaville, Archipel, Bang on a Can, Tokyo Summer, Vision, Instal, Jazztopad, Sengawa Jazz, Fuji Rock, and Music Unlimited festivals. Notable co-performers include Mark Dresser, Jim O’Rourke, Akira Sakata, Sidsel Endresen, Han Bennink, Alan Silva, Kazutoki Umezu, Raz Mesinai, Yoshihide Otomo, Ned Rothenberg, Knut Buen, Bugge Wesseltoft, Satoko Fujii, Joëlle Leandre, Håkon Kornstad, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Masahiko Sato, Thomas Strønen, Carl Stone, Billy Bang, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, Roger Turner, Gerry Hemingway, Mani Neumeier, and Sachiko M. Yagi’s koto has been featured in ex-Judy & Mary guitarist/singer Takuya’s band, and she has recorded with neo-prog rocker Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, and singer-songwriter Angela Aki.

In addition to leading the Michiyo Yagi Double Trio and the Michiyo Yagi Trio and performing solo concerts — all with an emphasis on her original compositions, extended techniques, and unique vocals based on the traditional jiuta style — she continues to be active as the leading improviser on her chosen instrument.

https://michiyoyagi.com