For the members of the Aizuri Quartet — violinists Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa, violist Ayane Kozasa, and cellist Karen Ouzounian — aizuri-e, the Japanese art form that provided the group's name is inspiring. The similarities to their music are two-fold, Ouzounian said. It uses “the same materials we use as musicians, like wood and ink," she said.
And, like the electrifying Prussian blue ink, the group’s music crosses borders, “developing, evolving,” Ouzounian added.
That notion of porous borders is further explored in "Song Emerging," the program the Aizuris will perform on Friday, Nov. 18 at The Greene Space, the arts and culture venue operated by New York Public Radio. The expansive undertaking crosses time periods and genres, Frucht said, and centers around "The Aizuri Songbook” — which, like the Great American Songbook, is a collection of representative vocal music.