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Kenji Bunch to play viola pieces at The Woods

by James Bash on June 22, 2010

Composer and violist Kenji Bunch will perform a short set of his solo viola works at The Woods in SE Portland (6637 Milwaukie Avenue) on Thursday, June 24 at 3 pm. This is the first time he will play these pieces in Portland. The concert is in preparation for a recording that Bunch will do this summer for a fall release.

Following Bunch’s set, a local band Jawbone Flats will play, and then Bunch will join his bluegrass band from NY, called Citigrass, for the last set of the evening.

Bunch grew up in Portland, playing for the Portland Youth Philharmonic. He then played and studied composition Juilliard in New York City, which is now his home. Bunch has written pieces for orchestra and other ensembles. He and his wife, pianist Monica Ohuchi, are playing at the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival, which opened on June 18th and runs through the 27th in Corvallis.




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jbash James Bash

James Bash writes articles for a variety of publications, including magazines such as Opera America, Open Spaces, Opera, MUSO, International Arts Manager, American Record Guide, Symphony, Opera Canada, and PSU Magazine. The newspapers include Crosscut, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Oregonian, The Columbian, The Portland Tribune, The Register-Guard, and Willamette Week. James has also written a number of articles for the Oregon Arts Commission. James was a fellow to the 2008 NEA Journalism Institute for Classical Music and Opera. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America (mcana.org) and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Kathy.