Kumiko Omura

Kumiko Omura (Japanese大村 久 美 子, Kumiko Omura, born 1970 in Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese composer. It is one of the leading composers in Japan.

Life

Omura studied first with Isao Matsushita, Kenjiro Urata and Jō Kondō at the Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu. She then studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at IRCAM in Paris and Intermedia Art (Master) at Kiyoshi Furukawa at the Tōkyō Daigaku Geijutsu. Your music has been performed in Japan, Korea, USA and Europe ( including: Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Musica Viva in Germany, Festival AGORA, Festival Acanthe in France, Gaudeamus Music Week in Holland, Emufest in Italy, Bludenzer Days of Contemporary Music in Austria and Music From Japan in New York). For the artists, including the New Japan Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, music factory, ensemble recherche, resonance ensemble and Nieuw Ensemble. From 2006 to 2010 she was a visiting artist at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe. From 2010 to 2011 she was "composer in residence" at Künstlerhof Schreyahn.

Awards

Discography

  • Double Contour / Kumiko Omura Portrait CD by Fontec "Japanese Composer" series ( 2009)
  • Double Contour for cello and live electronics (2001)
  • Germination II for 6 Players ( Fl.Ob.Cl.Vn.Pf.Vib. ) (2003 )
  • Hommage à Pluton for ensemble and live electronics ( 2006-7 )
  • Mutation of the Möbius for recorder and viola d' amore (2005)
  • La complication d'image AB for alto / baritone saxophone (2002 /7)
  • Reticulation for Orchestra ( 1993-4 )
  • Imaginary Bridge for shakuhachi, ensemble and electronic sound ( 1998-99)
  • Double Contour for cello and live electronics (2001) / Computer music journal sound and video anthology. Volume 28 by MIT Press (2004)
  • La complicatiln d'image for tenor saxophone and live electronic (2002) / Takashi Saito ( sax ) solo CD by ALM Record in Japan ( 2003)
  • Synapse for strings ensemble ( 2001-2 ) / Witten Days for New Chamber Music in 2002 bem WDR
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