Faculty/Guest Concert: Ayano Kataoka & Nonoka Mizukami, percussion

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UMass professor Kataoka and guest artist Mizukami (pictured) come together to perform works from the contemporary percussion repertoire.

Terra for marimba duo (2025) by Naoko Kachi - US premiere

Table Talk for prepared vibraphone (2016) by Alyssa Weinberg (b.1988)

Damocles (2022) by Steven Snowden (b.1981)

Seeds (2010) by L. Gorosito and R. Alberto

Bump (2021) by Marc Mellits (b.1966)

Nonoka Mizukami is a percussionist and educator based in Baltimore, MD who is committed to performing and collaborating multidisciplinary projects with living composers and visual artists in various solo, chamber, and orchestral settings in both the U.S. and Japan, and she is also committed to growing music education for young people. Recent commissions include world premieres of From the Overgrown Cathedral for two marimbas (2024) by Steven Crino, Resemblance IV for marimba duo (2024) by Satoshi Tanaka, and Way of Knowing for alto saxophone, percussion and piano (2024) by Andrew Burke, as well as Japan premieres of Damocles (2022) by Steven Snowden and Bump (2021) by Marc Mellits in Tokyo in January 2025. Nonoka is a member of Baltimore modern music quintet Pique Collective, and a founding member of marimba-cello duet Cellimba. Since 2018 she has served as director of the Peabody Preparatory Percussion Group, and faculty for percussion studies at Peabody Preparatory School, and she recently joined Luzerne Music Center in NY as percussion faculty. She holds BM, MM, and GPD degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.