Nyokabi Kariuki performs for the first time in Köln, Germany for ROUND – the concert series for experimental pop and electronic music at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
Nyokabi Kariũki puts together a farewell show before she leaves the country to pursue further studies in the world of music composition. Supported by experimental live and DJ sets from Kimina, naisiS, Ng’at Maler, and Coco Em!
For this third and final Veillée sonore of the season, MansA (Maison des Mondes Africains) welcomes Kenyan composer and performer Nyokabi Kariũki on Thursday, June 18, an intimate performance.
I will perform a piece with ensemble Klangforum Wien at a concert on 13th June at 7:30pm at ORF RadioKulturhaus, Vienna, AT.
The concert includes work from a legendary group of composers including Tania León, Elaine Mitchener, Bára Gísladóttir, Ailís Ní Ríain. More information about the concert here.
I will speak at the summit’s opening on 12th June and perform a piece with ensemble Klangforum Wien at a concert on 13th June at 7:30pm. The concert also includes work from a legendary group of composers, including Tania León, Elaine Mitchener, Bára Gísladóttir, Ailís Ní Ríain. More information about the concert here.
After winning the Hearsay ‘Art’ Award in 2021, I finally get to attend the Hearsay International Audio Festival in-person on May 7-11th, 2026. Here, I will share my guided listening session on the otherwordly music of Halim El-Dabh on Friday 8th May at 12pm (in the Sunken Garden).
Nyokabi Kariũki & defunsemble perform at Turkis Aarhus for SPOR Festival on Sat 25th April.
The experimental supergroup Mizizi Ensemble is back for Kilele 2026, this time at The Rift, with a new performance continuing on from the questions they left unanswered after their electric Kilele 2025!
I will be heading to Sundance Film Festival 2026 for the premiere of “Kikuyu Land”, a film I co-scored with Keir Vine. It is competing in the the World Cinema Documentary Competition!
I will be presenting research on body percussion & live-electronics and performing my new piece for the same, “Body, bend”, at Stroom Den Haag (NL) — all on Day 2 of the symposium - 12th December, 2025.
I will be giving a presentation on my research in combining body percussion and live-electronics and performing my new piece for the same, “Body, bend” at Stroom Den Haag — both on Day 2 of the symposium - 12th December, 2025.
At Sonic Territories Festival in Vienna, Austria, I give the world premiere and my first and only solo performance of 2025: “Body, Bend”, a piece commissioned for embodied percussion and live electronics!
At Sonic Territories Festival in Vienna, Austria, collaborator Alex Hofmann and I will present a workshop of our project on combining “embodied percussion”, or body percussion, with live electronics. This happens on the eve of my first ever performance of the piece commissioned for this project!
At Vienna’s largest photo biennale, I will share a listening session through the music of Halim El-Dabh.
Nyokabi Kariũki shares research into the longstanding and inextricable relationship between the African body, movement, and soundmaking - both individually and communally. This workshop also invites participants to inquire about their own relationships to sound-making with their bodies.
Looking forward to bringing my guided listening session on Halim El-Dabh’s otherwordly music to Malmö, Sweden, as part of my residency hosted by fors & Retreat Radio.
An evocative symbiosis of human voice, cello and birdsong — first premiered at Rewire 2025, now at the third stop: Amersfoort, for SeptemberMe Festival.
An evocative symbiosis of human voice, cello and birdsong — first premiered at Rewire 2025, now at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (NL), as part of “The Rest Is Noise'“ series!
Tickets: € 12,50–€ 25,00 /
In 2022, Gaudeamus paired the octet with Nyokabi to perform pieces from her debut EP peace places: kenyan memories live. Three years later, they connect again to perform a new commission: Birdsongs from Kĩrĩnyaga.
I team up with music technologist Dr. Astrid Bin to get closer towards the crux of my piece, “Meditations on the Sounding African Body.” Here, we will present our findings so far at the Institute for Musical Acoustics (IWK) in Vienna, at a symposium organised as the culmination of research by Dr. Alex Hofmann.
I have unfortunately had to pull out from this last minute do to a family emergency, and I’m sorry for anyone who was looking forward to seeing me here. Please be on the lookout for other Vienna dates coming up though!
Ten internationally pioneering female composers* who explore our globalized present in a multi-voiced way are the focus of two concerts with Klangforum Wien. The audience will experience a wealth of inspiring artistic signatures of a global, second, feminist modernity.
I am OVER THE MOON to be collaborating with Cello Octet Amsterdam again! The world premiere of my new work, ‘Birsdongs from Kĩrĩnyaga’, will be performed in April at Rewire Festival in The Hague, NL.
I am OVER THE MOON to be collaborating with Cello Octet Amsterdam again! The world premiere of my new work, ‘Birsdongs from Kĩrĩnyaga’, will be performed in April at Rewire Festival in The Hague, NL.
A little try-out concert with Cello Octet Amsterdam, in advance of our premiere at Rewire Festival in The Hague!
Kilele Summit is a first-of-its-kind music innovation symposium in Nairobi. Following the success of the first edition, the Kilele team in Nairobi we are super excited to welcome you back for the second edition, taking place on February 18-25th, 2025!
Stay tuned to hear more on how I’ll be involved this time around :)
At the inaugural SQUARE, a festival-conference part of Braga ‘25, Kenyan artist and researcher Nyokabi Kariũki will talk to Joshua Minsoo Kim (Tone Glow) about her research “On learning that one of the first electronic works was by an African, Halim El-Dabh”.
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Dec 07 2024, 7 p.m // Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Dec 06 2024, 7 p.m // Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Thu Dec 05 2024, 7 p.m // Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Tuesday Dec 04 2024, 7 p.m // Ha Concerts, Ghent, Belgium // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Mon Dec 02 2024, 7 p.m // Zonnehuis, Amsterdam, NL //Tickets here
