Poetry In Motion

British artist Andy Goldsworthy has established his storied career crafting environmental installations that showcase the innate beauty of the world. Contemplative, disarming, and elegant beyond words, Goldsworthy’s work has featured a variety of timeless portals, a series of intimate lens for how we move through the world.

In the world of Jazz, pianist Yoko Yates manifests a similar brand of precision and sincerity through music that explores the emotional landscape of memory, place and time. With her albums Mystic Life and Eternal Moments, Yates maps out her passion for the natural world while crafting a variety of compositions that invite listeners to hear Jazz within spirited and meditative mindset.

Accompanied by veteran musicians with extensive experience within classical, chamber music and contemporary Jazz, Yates has quickly defined her place among musical story-tellers whose work moves audiences with its intelligence, curious emotional axes and persistent artistic ingenuity.

With compositions that can often feel like prose poetry or watercolor paintings, Yates builds dynamic structures that honor her love for a variety of musical genres and a life-long passion for the visual arts. In our phrenetic world where engagement too often transcends substance, Yates uses the inherent integrity of simplicity to slowly unpack the unique identity of her substantial skills as a composer and arranger.

Grounded by the principles that guide her musical explorations, Yates has already positioned herself as an artist worthy of dedicating the time and space to fully appreciate her work. Her albums reveal themselves like great books, each song another chapter in the growing authority of her burgeoning career.