Mari Kimura Email & Phone Number

Hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuoso playing at the edge”, Mari Kimura is a violinist/composer and a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music. As a violinist, Mari is renowned for her mastery of Subharmonics—the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string—as well as for her dynamic performances as an improviser and her premieres of many notable compositions by today’s composers. She has received numerous awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission Award, a residency at IRCAM, and a Composers Now creative residency at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In recognition of her ground-breaking work, Mari was named one of “Immigrants: Pride of America” by the Carnegie Corporation. Mari’s works have been supported by numerous commissions and awards including: New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, New Music USA/Meet The Composer, International Computer Music Association, Music from Japan, Harvestworks, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, Vilcek Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. As an educator, Mari is the founding chair of Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival since 2013, and has been a graduate faculty at Juilliard since 1998. In 2017, Mari was appointed as a Full Professor of Music at “Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology” program (ICIT) at University of California, Irvine. Mari's most recent efforts include composing with motion sensor. She developed MUGIC™, a IoT device for musical performance and beyond. In September 2020, Mari released MUGIC™ commercially. MUGIC™ is now available at https://mugicmotion.com/

Listed skills include Composition, Music, Musical Theatre, Chamber Music, and 19 others.