YOKO KANNO - PIANO ME
About This Event
Composer and keyboardist Yoko Kanno, known for scores to Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, appears at Town Hall for "YOKO KANNO - PIANO ME," presented as a live classical program. Her work writing for anime, games and film and her leadership of the band Seatbelts inform a piano approach that favors clarity and structure over display.
About PIANO ME
PIANO ME arrives at Town Hall as a live classical program centered on the piano as both instrument and narrator. Featuring performer and composer Yoko Kanno, the evening moves between written score and personal address, treating performance as a kind of self-portrait built in sound. Town Hall’s long history of presenting serious music in Midtown gives the work a clear New York context, even without a widely documented NYC premiere lineage. Its most pointed idea is simple: virtuosity here is used to reveal character, not to decorate it.
About the Artist
Yoko Kanno
Yoko Kanno is a Japanese composer, arranger, and producer best known for writing music for anime, games, television dramas, and films, including titles such as *Cowboy Bebop* and *Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex*.