Masako Kunimoto

Ariana Lamon-Anderson, clarinet & Masako Kunimoto,percussion

Final recital after completing the Certificate Program in Contemporary American Music

$10 admission

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Masako Kunimoto, percussion, was born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1981. When she was only 3 years old, she started to learn music. Masako began studying marimba as a high school student. After she graduated from Osaka college of Music in Japan, she worked at high schools and middle schools as a teacher. She has performed with diverse ensembles, such as wind orchestra, chamber groups, and as a freelance percussionist. She received a BM degree at Osaka College of Music and the Certificate in American Contemporary Music from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her teachers include Professor Tom Goldstein, Keiko Miyamoto, and Toru Kitano.

Ariana Lamon-Anderson, clarinet/bass clarinet, was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1984. She earned her BM and MM degrees at the Peabody Conservatory in 2007 under the tutelage of Edward Palanker, and the Certificate in American Contemporary Music from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2008 under the tutelage of Dr. E. Michael Richards. Currently Ms. Lamon-Anderson is a freelance musician and woodwind instructor in the greater Baltimore and Washington, DC area. In the fall she is planning to study with Dr. Anthony Burr to pursue her DMA in Contemporary Performance at the University of California, San Diego.

PROGRAM:

Botany of Desire - Mischa Salkind-Pearl
Masako and Ariana

Kochi II - Matsushita Isao
Ariana solo

Star-Fall Dances - Frank Wiley
Masako and Ariana

Poems I II III - Stuart Smith
Masako and Ariana

Standing - Jo Kondo
Masako, Ariana and Daniel Roberts, Guitar

To the Earth - Frederick Rzewski
Masako solo

Strange Dreams - Nathan Daughtrey
Masako and Ariana