Rachel Bernsen’s Novel Formats: A Dialogue (number one) with Rachel Bernsen (instigator/director/dancer), Ellen Ahern Smith (dancer), Tomeka Reid (cello), Kyoko Kitamura (voice, piano), Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Lindsay Packer (visual, light artist). February 9, 2024 at Junction Arts & Media (White River Junction, VT).
Matthew Barney’s Secondary: Music and sound design by composer Jonathan Bepler; vocal music developed and performed by Isabel Crespo Pardo, Jacquelyn Deshchidn, Jeffrey Gavett, Kyoko Kitamura, with Jonathan Bepler. Premiered in NYC May 2023.
The Tri-Centric Vocal Ensemble performance on January 25th, 2019. Music by Anthony Braxton, directed by Kyoko Kitamura. With vocalists Roland Burks, Tomas Cruz, Lucy Dhegrae, Chris DiMeglio, Kristin Fung, Kyoko Kitamura, Adam Matlock, Anne Rhodes, Kamala Sankaram, Elizabeth Saunders.
Tidepool Fauna 4 with Kyoko Kitamura: composition and voice; Ingrid Laubcok: t. sax; Ken Filiano: bass; Dayeon Seok: drums. Performed on December 19th, 2017 at Arts for Art’s Evolving Series.
Anthony Braxton’s opera Trillium J performed in April 2014 at Roulette. Blu-ray disk, audio CD and full personnel info available here: http://tricentricfoundation.org/all-releases/trillium-j-the-non-unconfessionables-composition-no-380
Mari Kimura and Tomoyuki Kato’s “ONE”, an interactive audio/graphic multi-lingual opera featuring the Cassatt Quartet and Kyoko Kitamura which premiered on June 30, 2013 at Michael SchimMel Center for the Arts in NYC.
Taylor Ho Bynum Ensemble Prince Project with Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet; Jim Hobbs: saxes; Kyoko Kitamura: voice, keyboard; Abraham Gomez-Delgado: voice, guitar, percussion; Evan Patrick: el. guitar; Nick Lloyd: keyboard; Stomu Takeishi: el. bass; Pheeroan akLaff: drums. Performed on February 17th, 2013 at Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy.
“Charlie Brown’s Wandering Eye” duo version. Kyoko Kitamura: composition and voice; Russ Lossing: piano. Performed on January 26th, 2011 at The Stone.
Promotional video/animation for the tune “hunt” from ok|ok’s debut album released by RKM Music, produced by Kyoko Kitamura and Yohei Ito. Music by ok|ok (Kyoko Kitamura, Mike Mcginnis, Khabu, Tony Moreno), directed/animated by PECKS (Yohei Ito & Shingo Igata). Reel 13 Shorts WINNER, aired on THIRTEEN/WNET on 8/23/08.