Kyoko Kitamura — Resume

Vocalist, composer, producer, educator, media professional
Pronouns: she/her
Nationality: U.S.

Select Projects/Performances

  • Siren Xypher Collective — co-convener (collective trio with Melanie Dyer, Mara Rosenbloom)
  • Geometry — co-leader (collective quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid)
  • Quiet Ambassador — co-leader (collective trio with dancer/choreographers Rachel Bernsen and Levi Gonzalez)
  • William Parker’s Huey’s Pocket Watch ensemble — member
  • Matthew Barney’s Secondary — featured performer (2023, five-channel installation)
  • Audra Wolowiec’s (waves) — featured performer (2024, site-specific)
  • Audra Wolowiec’s AIR — featured performer (2026, site-specific)
  • Rachel Bernsen’s Novel Formats — collaborator (ongoing multidisciplinary performance series with choreographer Rachel Bernsen)
  • Anthony Braxton opera Trillium E — featured performer
  • Anthony Braxton opera Trillium J — featured performer
  • Anthony Braxton’s Syntactical Ghost Trance Music — featured performer
  • Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble — featured performer

Producer

  • Director / Co-producer / Vocalist, GTM(Syntax)2017 — 11-hour, 12-CD recording project realizing Anthony Braxton’s Syntactical Ghost Trance Music system, with 12 vocalists
  • Creator / Producer, Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music (2023 mini-documentary on Anthony Braxton)
  • Co-Producer, Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival (2024–present, organized by Siren Xypher Collective)

Arts Leadership & Teaching

  • Executive Director, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation (2019–2021)
  • Director of Communications, Tri-Centric Foundation (2010–2019)
  • Director, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble (2010–November 2025)
  • Visiting Faculty, Bennington College (Feb 2022–June 2025)
  • Lectures and workshops, Dartmouth College (2019–present)
  • The New School, MM program (2021)

Festivals

  • Big Ears Festival (2016, Knoxville, TN)
  • Moers Festival (2017, Germany)
  • Edition Festival for Other Music (2019, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • JazzFest Berlin (2019, Germany)
  • Vision Festival (2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2024, NYC)
  • BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! (2025)
  • Winter Jazzfest (2026, with William Parker’s Pocket Watch Orchestra)

Media Experience

  • Television journalist, Fuji Television Japan
  • Magazine writer, Figaro Japon, CUT, and others
  • Director of Communications, Tri-Centric Foundation
  • Creator, mini-documentary Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music (2023, premiered at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt)

Selected Discography

Solo & Collective

  • Geometry of Phenomena (Relative Pitch, 2024) — with Geometry: Tomeka Reid, Joe Morris, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura
  • Geometry of Trees (Relative Pitch, 2022) — with Geometry
  • Geometry of Distance (Relative Pitch, 2019) — with Geometry
  • Geometry of Caves (Relative Pitch, 2018) — with Geometry
  • Protean Labyrinth (Self-release, 2018) — with Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Filiano, Dayeon Seok
  • Armadillo In Sunset Park (Self-release, 2012) — solo album, voice and piano

With Anthony Braxton

  • GTM (Syntax) 2017 (New Braxton House, 2019)
  • Trillium J: The Non-Unconfessionables (opera, New Braxton House, 2015)
  • 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (New Braxton House, 2014)
  • Trillium E: Wallingford’s Polarity Gambit (opera, New Braxton House, 2011)

Others

  • William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering Music, 2021)
  • Cory Smythe, Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic, 2020)

Book

Contributor, Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician’s Guide to Research. DeLaurenti, K., & Copland, A. I. (2024). Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.pub/musicresearch/