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Doors 6pm / Performance 7pm
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In connection with Aine Nakamura’s exhibition and research project hands on tape, she performs a duo with longtime collaborator koto player Kanoko Nishi-Smith, and a collaborative project with violinist Hyeyung Sol Yoon. The gallery will be open for viewing one hour before the performance.

Kanoko Nishi-Smith is a performer currently based in SF/Bay Area. Though classically trained on piano, receiving a BA in Classical Music Performance from Mills College, her recent interest has primarily been in performing 20th century and contemporary musical compositions for piano as well as for koto (Japanese 13-string zither), and free-improvisation in various different contexts, with musicians, as well as dancers, poets, and visual artists.

Hyeyung Sol Yoon (she/her) is an artist at the margins of her American and Korean identities who plays the violin, composes, teaches, and organizes arts communities in a career that spans over 2 decades. Hyeyung’s experience of immigrating to the U.S. from Korea at the age of 7 and later traveling to her motherland to experience Korea’s shaman rituals and folk performances continue to inspire and inform her own creative work. She joined the Del Sol Quartet in April 2023, an ensemble that has commissioned or premiered thousands of works by composers since 1992. Hyeyung was a violinist in the Chiara String Quartet for 18 years before celebrating the ensemble’s last season in 2018.