Pro Musica Musical Evenings Presents Robbie Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Duet!!!

Musical Evenings if happy invite you to welcome Robbie Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki for album release show!!! Ken Christianson, Pro Musica, Chicago
Robbie Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki have been playing for many years; tonight's performance celebrates the 'album drop' of their new duo album named:
"Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol. 1"

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger Saxophones, Oboe, Irish Whistle, Shehnai, Suona, Violin, Percussion
Tatsu Aoki Acoustic Bass

Doors Open at 7pm
Concerts at 8pm
Artist Donations requested all proceeds go to artists
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Robbie Lynn Hunsinger
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator. She performs with Eastern and Western oboes, single reeds and fiddle often incorporating reactive visuals, micro-controlled motors and hacked game controllers. Her interactive art weaves original music and new media into playable environments using sculpture, projections, sensors and motors, creating frameworks for compelling sensory exploration. Conservatory trained as an oboist, she toured internationally as a classical and avant-garde instrumentalist with a career that includes concerts, tours and a Grammy with the Chicago Symphony and performances with the Atlanta Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, Marlboro Music Festival, the Chicago Jazz Festival, FMP Festival, the Chicago World Music Festival and SXSW. She has played with Evan Parker, toured with Michael Vorfeld, studied with Roscoe Mitchell and her Trio album with Joseph Jarman and Tatsu Aoki received 4 stars from Downbeat Magazine. Her interactive installations have been written up in Make Magazine, supported by the NEA and exhibited at the MCA, ISEA and Thomas Blackman Gallery. robbiehunsinger.com

Tatsu Aoki
In 2019 Aoki was also awarded the Community Service award from the Asian American Coalition of Chicago for his continued leadership and contribution to the community. This year (2020), he received the United States Artists Fellowship for Traditional Arts and also the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Ethnic and Cultural Arts.
As Executive Director of Asian Improv aRts MidWest (AIRMW), an Asian American cultural arts presenter organization, Aoki has initiated and managed several programs to advance the understanding of traditional

arts and community through the arts, including the annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, the Tsukasa Taiko Legacy, and the Toyoaki Shamisen arts residency projects. The concept of Legacy is very prominent in all of Aoki’s music and projects. He insists on demonstrating the authenticity of the Japanese Legacy using traditional instruments such as shamisen and taiko, especially with newer contemporary applications. He performs throughout the Chicagoland, the Midwest areas, and nationally, the driving point is to instill the importance of Legacy. His traditional Japanese drumming group, Tsukasa Taiko, is profiled as one of the most active and successful taiko drumming groups in the Midwest and has also produced a number of recordings, the most recent on vinyl. Aoki’s annual Taiko Legacy performance celebrated its 16th anniversary year at the Museum of

Contemporary Art in downtown Chicago and has been the largest and most popular ethnic community concerts presented at the museum. He has also restored Chicago’s shamisen lute music culture with Toyoaki Shamisen and performances with Shubukai Classical Dance. These and other projects are all components and examples of his drive to establish artist guided community participation as well as projects that have exclusive artist involvement, which raise the bar for quality and awareness of the Japanese cultural arts here in Chicago.
He continues to be based in Chicago, working internationally in a wide range of musical genres including Japanese traditional music, experimental, and creative jazz, his collaborative projects ranging from puppetry, neoclassical Japanese dance, and experimental dance films.