For Your GRAMMY® Consideration

HEIKE QUINTO

in the Category of

Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance

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Duo Yumeo presents
Daron Hagen’s Heike Quinto

“Though the tone and aesthetic sometimes call to mind traditional Japanese chamber music…the music for both instruments is written idiomatically, so it doesn’t end up sounding wholly Japanese or western. It’s certainly one of the more convincing fusions of the two traditions that I have heard from a western composer.”

- American Record Guide

“The exotic music transports the listener into a very special world of sound… In this recording it benefits from the technically outstanding and very committed interpretation of the Duo Yumeno.

- Pizzicatto Magazine

”Yoko Reikano is clearly a virtuoso koto player. I’ve heard several recordings of koto players, but none as breathtaking as what Reikano does here, and near the end of this movement Hikaru Tamaki’s cello playing is deep, rich and beautiful.”

- The Art Music Lounge

New York-based Duo YUMENO creates a singular fusion of sound, inspired by tradition but retaining a contemporary sensibility. A proponent of new music, the duo has commissioned works that explore the dialogue between classical Japanese and Western music. Koto/shamisen player and singer Yoko Reikano Kimura was awarded First Prize at the prestigious tenth Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition. Cellist Hikaru Tamaki is currently a member of the Berkshire Opera Festival Orchestra and the Albany Symphony.