Guitarist

Composer and musician Kaki King is considered one of the world’s greatest living guitarists, known both for her technical mastery and for her constant quest to push the boundaries of the instrument. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a genre unto herself,” Kaki has released nine albums and toured extensively, presenting in such prestigious arts centers as the Kennedy Center, MoMA, LACMA, The Met and Smithsonian Design Museum. She has created music for numerous film and TV soundtracks, including August Rush and Into the Wild, for which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score.

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Kaki King

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

In her continuous quest to explore the outer bounds of what is possible for the guitar, SEI is a new full-length performance piece where guitar movement takes over the entire stage. In SEI (which means "six" in Italian), guitarists become dancers, coordinating their whole bodies to perform the rigors of both choreography and composition. Multiple guitars on stands are spaced out strategically, in a design allowing for music and movement to be created between them. In SEI, the relationship between the players is revealed musically and physically, a progression of distance and space -- like the progression between the six individual strings of the guitar.

The Studio at 414

Kaki King has spent her career deconstructing and redefining the boundaries of the guitar, exploring its limits through technique, imagination, and seemingly boundless humanity. Her latest album Modern Yesterdays is a response to the unique time dilation of the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring several songs written as part her experimental theater piece “Data Not Found,” a rumination on themes of connection, alienation, and rebirth. Recorded in Brooklyn with Arjan Miranda and sound designer Chloe Alexandra Thompson, King’s poly-harmonic and -rhythmic approach wields abundant articulations of post-classical, jazz, folk, and blues motifs. In Modern Yesterdays live, King continues to refine her now signature projection mapping performance alongside a new approach to storytelling. Using visually imaginative and carefully choreographed guitar (and drum) performance, Modern Yesterdays bridges what fans have come to love about Kaki King.

Kaki King: Modern Yesterdays

McCarter Theatre Center

Rolling Stone Magazine has called Kaki King “a genre unto herself.”  Known for both her technical mastery over the guitar and her constant quest to push the boundaries of the instrument, The New York Times praised King, saying she makes music as “ornate as a healing crystal.”

Kaki King

Guitarist

Events

May 4, 2024

Kaki King · La Jolla Music Society

1 - 2 Mar, 2024

Kaki King · Stanford Live

Jan 26, 2024

Kaki King: Modern Yesterdays · McCarter Theatre Center

Oct 7, 2023

An Evening with Kaki King · South Orange Performing Arts Center

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