Noriko Kawakami
Noriko Kawakami
Genres: Contemporary, japanese
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About Noriko Kawakami
Noriko Kawakami was born in 1955 in Ehime, Japan, studied composition with Ryohei Hirose at the Kunitachi Academy of Music in Tokyo. This was followed by studies with Klaus Huber in Freiburg in 1987/88 and with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen in 1988-91. In 1994 she attended a master class with James Dillon in Gothenburg/Sweden. In 1995/96 she lived in Paris as a freelance composer. She is particularly interested in the inner life of sound and its processing with modern sound techniques. Recently, she has been trying to gain new possibilities of shaping music from the idea of synaesthesia. Her works have been performed at numerous festivals and concert series worldwide, including: Kusatsu International Summer Music Festival (Japan), International Festival of New Music - Manuel Enriquez (Mexico-City), Musica Nova for electroacoustic music (Prague/Czech), A*DEvangarde-Festival Munich, achtmal alte brüderkirche Kassel, Kölner Musiknacht, ensembl[: E:]uropa (WDR), International Accordion Festival (Vilnius/Lithuania), Chiffren Festival (kieler tage für neue musik), Borealis Festival (Bergen/Norway), MusikTriennnale Cologne, Frau Musica (nova) on Deutschlandfunk, Musik 21 Festival Niedersachsen. Collaboration with ensembles and performers such as the Plural Ensemble Madrid, Apartment House London, Ensemble Musica d'insieme Milan, Thürmchen Ensemble, Leonardo Quartet Cologne, e-mex neue musik ensemble, Ensemble L'art pour L'art, Ensemble reflexion K, Ensemble Horizonte, LandesJugendEnsemble für Neue Musik Schleswig-Holstein, Das Klarinettenduo [Zelinsky|Smeyers], Ensemble Schwerpunkt, Duo Vertige [Mirjam Schröder|Rie Watanabe], Dirk Rothbrust, Catherin Vickers, Michinori Bunya, Carin Levine, Kristi Becker, Makiko Goto, Dorothee Oberlinger, Matthias Kaul, Eva Zöllner, Satoko Inoue, Naoko Kikuchi, a. o. a. She has received various scholarships, including at the ZKM Karlsruhe (2004), the artists' houses in Eckernförde (2007), Lukas/Ahrenshoop (2010), Lauenburg/Elbe (2011), AIR-Krems/Austria (2012), Schloss Wiepersdorf (2015). As a guest lecturer she gave workshops, among others at the JML Seminar/Irino Institute, Ueno-Gakuen University, Kunitachi Conservatory of Music in Tokyo and was invited as a guest composer to the "Contemporary Music Seminar & Festival Akiyoshidai's Summer (2009)" in Japan.
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