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.
Available on Apple Music, Recochoku, TIDAL and others. A digest version is also available on NeSTREAM LIVE. The music is available in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music, Amazon Music and other distribution services. [Music] Composed by Mio Adachi. Gakubiwa, Piano: Yumiko Kiyota (Music piece from EP 'Imagine, then Dance') [Video] Director: Miller Rachel Chie Photography: Fumiko Mishiro Assistant Cinematographer : Runa Nagaoka Lighting: Universe Mishiro Producer: Mio Adachi Imagine, then Dance Producer: Shintaro Asizawa Dolby Atmos mixing: Daiki Iimura (ONKIO HAUS) ℗ SASSO / rhapsodie musique
The soundtrack in which I was involved in playing the Gakubiwa and the gagaku percussion has been released. towerofgod.lnk.to/workshopbattle ©2024 Tower of God 2 Animation Partners under exclusive license to Milan Records, a label of Sony Music Entertainment
Tokyo Gakuso ‘New Year's Gagaku’. 2025.2.8 (Sat) 14:00 Concert Suntory Hall Main Hall https://www.suntory.co.jp/suntoryhall/schedule/detail/20250208_M_2.html https://www.amati-tokyo.com/performance/2410161316.php
Tokyo Gakuso ‘Gagaku: The Tale of Genji’ - from The Tale of Genji, Heian period Literature 2025.3.16 (Sun) 14:00 Concert begins Ichikawa City Cultural Hall (Chiba prefecture) https://www.tekona.net/bunkakaikan/event_detail.php?id=2539
Tokyo Gakuso Gagaku concert - Kangen ‘Tanabata’, Bugaku ‘The Tale of Genji’. Performed by: Tokyo Gakusho <the Imperial Household Agency's ceremonial music department> (honorific titles omitted) Tadaaki Ono, others
Now available on NeSTREAM LIVE, where you can experience it as if you were in a live concert hall with Dolby Atmos. Please enjoy the music and music videos with a focus on spatial sound. Composed by Mio Adachi Ryuteki, Gakubiwa and Piano: Yumiko Kiyota Koto, 17-stringed koto: Azusa Mori Dolby Atmos mixing: Daiki Iimura SASSO rhapsodie musique Director: Mio Adachi Text design: Mina (Komorebifilm) NeSTREAM LIVE page nestreamlive.radius.co.jp