Mari Kimura

Violinist/composer Mari Kimura is widely admired as the inventor of “Subharmonics” and her works for interactive computer music. As a composer, Mari’s numerous commissions include the International Computer Music Association, Harvestworks, Music from Japan, and received grants including NYFA, Arts International, Meet The Composer, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, and NYSCA. In 2010 Mari won the Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, and invited as Composer-in-Residence at IRCAM in Paris. In October 2011, the Cassatt String Quartet premiered Mari’s “I-Quadrifoglo”, her string quartet with interactive computer at the Symphony Space in NYC, commissioned through Fromm Commission Award. Feature articles in the past year include: the New York Times (May 13th, written by Matthew Gurewitsch), and Scientific American (May 31st, written by Larry Greenemeier). Mari’s CD, The World Below G and Beyond, features her Subharmonics works and interactive computer music. Mari teaches a course in Interactive Computer Performance at Juilliard. http://www.marikimura.com