Yumiko Kiyota - Japanese Gagaku Artist & Performer
GAGAKU - Japanese Court Music and Dance
Ryuteki / Komabue / Kagurabue / Gakubiwa / Umai Dance / Ancient songs / Wagon
GAGAKU - Japanese Court Music and Dance
Ryuteki / Komabue / Kagurabue / Gakubiwa / Umai Dance / Ancient songs / Wagon
As a dedicated GAGAKU Japanese Court Music and Dance performer, she specializes in Ryuteki (龍笛), Komabue (高麗笛), Kagurabue(神楽笛), Gakubiwa (楽琵琶), and Umai Dance (右舞), Ancient Songs(古代歌謡). She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in the Department of Traditional Japanese Music.
By combining her superb technique with a lively musicality that overflows from within, she has created a new kind of music by combining the ‘Gagaku’ instruments, previously used only in the traditional performing art of ‘Gagaku’.
【Koto, Gagaku instruments × Spatial Audio EP. Dolby Atmos Mix. Collections of pieces featuring traditional Japanese instruments ‘Koto’ and Japanese court music ‘Gagaku’ and Spatial Audio. Available on Apple Music and other distribution platforms. Compose: Mio Adachi Ryuteki, Gakubiwa, Piano :Yumiko Kiyota Koto, 17 strings Koto: Azusa Mori Dolby Atmos Mixing: Daiki Iimura (Onkio Haus) Producer: Shintarou Ashizawa Production: SASSO, rhapsodie musique
2nd album "Momentary Garden" Momentary Garden is an ambient instrumental music album composed for Gagaku (Japanese traditional court music) instruments, craft percussions, vocal, electric sounds and so on. The pieces portray momentary and imaginary landscapes like ‘shakkei’ (borrowed landscape) with refined Japanese sounds. Music by Mio Adachi, Natsumi Nogawa, Kana Yoshizawa, Marty Hicks Performance by Yumiko Kiyota (ryuteki, gaku-biwa and wagon), Haruna Higashida (sho), Natsumi Nogawa (percussions), Marty Hicks (piano), Yuki Kimura (soprano) Designed by Ikumi Kaneda Production by Yoko Yuge Recording by Masaru Tanaka, Rai Sato, assisted by Masanori Ide Mixing&Mastering by Rai Sato
A full-length Japanese music ensemble work written for Japanese traditional instruments, Gagaku instruments and Chinese biwa, with a more delicate and flamboyant version of the opera ‘The Tale of Genji’ by Minoru Miki. The performance also includes a new Tokushima-only performance with singing.