2024
7/12&13 (TBA)
6/23 (SUN) Vision Festival 2024 7PM @ Roulette Brooklyn w/ Melanie Dyer’s Incalculable Likelihood (Dedicated to Rebecca Elliott)
6/18 (TUE) Vision Festival 2024 8PM @ Roulette Brooklyn w/ William Parker & Huey’s Pocket Watch
4/26 7:30PM Leonid Galaganov + @ 2B&2C 9 Avenue B between E.2nd St and Houston NYC
4/11 (THU) 7:30PM William Parker’s Lil’ Huey’s Pocket Watch NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
4/3 (Wed) Book Talk: Unlocking the Digital Age FREE 1PM online (authors Andrea I. Copland and Kathleen DeLaurenti in conversation with Kyoko Kitamura, facilitated by music librarian Matthew Vest)
3/31 (SUN) Jazz Vespers with Siren Xypher
3/7 (THU) 7:30PM William Parker’s Lil’ Huey’s Pocket Watch NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
2/20 – 6/30 Bennington College (visiting faculty)
2/15 8PM Lil’ Huey’s Pocket Watch (William Parker’s large ensemble) @ NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
2/3 (SAT) 5:30PM @ Junction Arts & Media (White River Junction, VT) Rachel Bernsen’s “A Dialogue (Number One)” with Rachel Bernsen (instigator/director/dancer), Ellen Ahern Smith (dancer), Tomeka Reid (cello), Kyoko Kitamura (voice), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Lindsay Packer (visual, light artist)
2/2-4 White River Junction, VT with Rachel Bernsen et al., teaching at Dartmouth
2/1-2 Dartmouth College teaching three classes: music business, improvisation as communication and music improvisation
1/18 (THU) 7PM Performing with Aakash Mittal’s ensemble, 8PM Huey’s Pocket Watch (William Parker’s large ensemble) at 8PM, both @ NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
1/11 (THU) 7PM with Siren Xypher (Melanie Dyer, Mara Rosenbloom, Kyoko Kitamura), 8PM Huey’s Pocket Watch (William Parker’s large ensemble), both @ NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
2023
12/28 (THU) 8PM Huey’s Pocket Watch (William Parker’s large ensemble) @ NuBlu Classic at 62 Ave C bet 4th & 5th St. NYC
12/7 Recording with William Parker
11/17 Arts for Art Family Gathering performing with William Parker: Little Huey’s Pocket Watch & Spirit Voices
10/12 Thursday Ibeam with Siren Xypher (Melanie Dyer, Mara Rosenbloom, Kyoko Kitamura)
9/28&29 William Parker’s In Search of Enlightenment at FourOneOne 411 Kent St. Brooklyn, NY, as part of William Parker’s Spirit Voices featuring Ellen Christi, Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez, Kyoko Kitamura, Luisa Muhr and DoYeon Kim (9/29 has been cancelled due to extreme heavy rain in NYC; there is a performance scheduled for 9/30 but I unfortunately cannot make it)
9/17 Recording with Geometry (Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura)
9/16 Dartmouth College (workshop during the day and performance in the evening with the collective quartet Geometry (Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura) at Studio Sudikoff Room 007 – 9 Maynard St Sudikoff Lab, Hanover, NH 03755)
8/26 2PM Siren Xypher with Melanie Dyer and Mara Rosenbloom at Governors Island Nolan Park Bldg 10B supported by Arts for Art and West Harlem Art Fund
8/23 Workshop (not open to public) “Application of Musical Creativity to Everyday Tasks: Navigating the Unknown” (Atlanta, GA)
8/8 Anthony Braxton: 50+ Years of Creative Music International Conference in Darmstadt, Germany, premiering Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music, an 18-minute short documentary film created by Kitamura on Anthony Braxton and his SGTM system
6/21 Workshop on the music of Anthony Braxton for Tokyo Gen’On Project (Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan)
5/28 “Breath: A Steadying Exhalation” at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum with violist Melanie Dyer and pianist Mara Rosenbloom
5/12 – 6/25 On view: Matthew Barney’s Secondary The New York Times coverage here. Kitamura performs on screen as the “referee” and was part of the ensemble which developed and performed the vocal music under the guidance of Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler.
4/15 “Control the Bor(D)ers” at Usdan Gallery, Bennington College. Site specific work by artist Emilio Rojas with the students of Bennington College, music direction by Kyoko Kitamura
3/31 Ibeam with Melanie Dyer and Mara Rosenbloom
2/21 – 6/12 Visiting Faculty at Bennington College