Category: Events

  • Roulette, NYC

    November 17, 2013 Triangle of Resistance (2013), A multi-media performance World Premiere Music: Miya Masaoka Video Projection: Michelle Handelman Conductor: Richard Carrick Direction: Brooke O’Harra Lighting Design: Justin Townsend Lighting Assistant: Sophie Talmadge Silleck String Quartet: Jennifer Choi, Violin; Esther Noh, Violin; Ljova, Viola; Alex Waterman, Cello; Satoshi Takeishi, Percussion; Miya Masaoka, Koto; Ben Vida,… More »

  • Cornell University Residency

    Oct. 22-24, 2013 Oct. 21, “Improvisation and Outsider Art,” lecture Oct. 22, Workshop, bring instruments Oct. 23, guest in the “Music on the Brain” workshop (taught by Professor Ron Hoy and Annie Lewandowski) Oct. 23, Barnes Hall concert with Kenta Nagai, fretless bass… More »

  • La Jolla Symphony, Steven Schick conducts

    September 20, 2013 7:30 PM Reading for Symphony Orchestra By composers: Miya Masaoka, Michael Dessen, Daniel Francis Marschak, Alan Chan and Tobin Chodos. Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD, San Diego, CA… More »

  • Ze Couch

    September 15th, 2013 Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet) & Frantz L. (viola) Miya Masaoka (koto) & Kenta Nagai (fretless guitar) Ignacio Rivas Bixio (percussion/electronics) 266 St. Mark’s Ave #4, Brooklyn, NY… More »

  • The Knockdown Center: Sound Corridors

    Sept. 14, 2013 Sound Corridors is a series of sound events exploring non-traditional interactions between sound and space. Set in architecturally and acoustically unique spaces, the series invites sound artists and composers to generate new work to activate the peculiarities of each performance environment. Masaoka will be premiering “just intone” for 16 channel sound installation… More »

  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

    June 28, 2013 Migrating Identities… More »

  • Vision Festival, Roulette, NYC

    June 14, 2013 8:45 PM East West Collective Didier Petit, cello Xu Feng Xia, guzheng Larry Ochs, saxophones Sylvain Kassap, clarinets Miya Masaoka, koto… More »

  • Vision Festival, Roulette, NYC

    June 13, 2013 9:00 PM Rob Brown’s U_L Project Rob Brown – alto saxophone Joe McPhee – trumpet, saxophone Miya Masaoka – koto Mark Helias – bass Qasim Naqvi – drums… More »

  • Either/Or Spring Festival at The Kitchen

    May 31st, 2013 8:00 PM WORLD PREMIERE! The Dust and the Noise For Piano, Percussion, Cello and Violin composed by Miya Masaoka for Either/Or… More »

  • Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA

    April 13, 2013 ROVA Saxophone Quartet with Zeena Parkins and Miya Masaoka. Matt Small, and Mike Lockwood playing works by The Collected. 55 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA… More »