Zen Kuriyama

Musicologist, Conductor, Singer

Zen Kuriyama, baritone
Paul Gregg, piano
July 2024

The Exsultet sung at Easter Vigil 2022 at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, Campion Center, Weston, MA, 2022. Zen Kuriyama, baritone.

Text by Johann Heermann
Tune by Johann Crüger
Zen Kuriyama, voice
Catherine Liddell, lute
Recorded live at the Congregational Church of Weston, MA, for online Lenten music series, April 2020.

Performed at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center of the University of Notre Dame, in a concert celebrating the composer, March 29, 2019. Luis Enrique Vargas, viola. Colin Raybin, dancer on the chair; Kelly Hirina, dancer on the floor. Geoffrey Bell, video art. Jason Swift, lighting design. Notre Dame Vocale --Jessica Roberts and Katrina Keat, sopranos --Erin Donegan, mezzo soprano --Brandon Hollihan, tenor --Zen Kuriyama, baritone --Howard Eckdahl, bass. Carmen-Helena Téllez, producer and conductor. Ryan Peteraf, assistant conductor.

Stony Brook University

"Ordinary" by Fred Hersch from the AIDS Quilt Songbook

Zen Kuriyama, baritone,  Ming-Jui Liu, guitar.  Live performance at Staller Recital Hall at Stony Brook University Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Emily Swope, Katrina Keat, JJ Mitchell, and Zen Kuriyama perform a Georgian Orthodox chant- "It is meet and right"- at the music school in Telavi, Kakheti region, Georgia. June 2018.

"Love is little, love is low"
Trad. Shaker tune, arr. Mark Schweizer
Congregational Church of Weston Sextet
Zen Kuriyama, director
’Sacred Choral Music in a Time of Pandemic’

Hymn: I Need You Every Hour
Text: Annie Hawks & Robert Lowry
Tune: NEED (Robert Lowry, 1872)
Congregational Church of Weston Sextet
"Choral Music in the Time of Pandemic” series
Zen Kuriyama, director

Choir of the Congregational Church of Weston (MA)
June 2021
Zen Kuriyama, director

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