Tiny Distillery Concerts: Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim & Yuma Uesaka

Join us for an evening of improvised music for by Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim and Yuma Uesaka and cocktails/mocktails!

🎟️ Doors open at 7:30pm
🎶 Show starts at 8:00pm
🥃 Cocktails & mocktails available for purchase at this groupmuse. Please support local business by getting at least 1 drink at the bar!

🎻 About Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim:
Based in New York City, South Korean violinist Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim has been presented by acclaimed organizations such as Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Chamber Music America, House of Yes, International Contemporary Ensemble, Joe’s Pub, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Luzerne Music Center, Metropolis Ensemble, The Juilliard School, Prague Conservatory, and Music Technology at Mason Gross. Lim’s early performing career, starting at the age of 10, mainly took place in South Korea, Czech Republic, Germany, and the UK. Her debut album, Starling (2023), was picked album of the day on Bandcamp Daily, picked best new song on Paste Magazine, and premiered on Deepest Currents. Lim is co-founder of Impromptuo and Muzosynth Orchestra (formerly the Moving Orchestra), both of which focus on performing free-form improvisation. She was also founding member of the Unison Quartet, prize winners at the Bartók World Competition in 2021. Lim is current faculty member at Opus 118 Harlem School of Music and Noel Pointer Foundation, as well as former faculty member at Luzerne Music Center, New Amsterdam School and Kneisel Hall Adult Chamber Music Institute. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts.

🎷 About Yuma Uesaka:
Yuma Uesaka (b.1991) is a Japanese-American saxophonist, clarinetist, improviser, and composer based in New York City since 2014. By way of London, Nagoya, and Detroit, his music spans jazz, creative improvised music, and new music, exploring the physicality of performance and blurring boundaries between acoustic/electronic, composed/improvised, and music/noise. Uesaka has released Streams with pianist Marilyn Crispell Ocelot with Cat Toren and Colin Hinton, and Switches with Tropos (Phillip Golub, Ledah Finck, Aaron Edgcomb). He has performed with Anna Webber, Lesley Mok, and Mali Obomsawin at venues such as Roulette, The Jazz Gallery, and National Sawdust, with recordings on Pi, American Dreams, and NotTwo.

What's the music?

Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim (she/her) Violin + Fx

Yuma Uesaka Saxophone

Attendees

Katherine Kyu Hyeon L. (she/her) Emcee