Mari Takano

Mari Takano (Japaneseたかの 舞俐, actually :高 野 眞 理, Mari Takano, born February 10, 1960 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese composer.

Life

After graduating from the Toho Gakuen College of Music in Mutsuo Shishido in 1983, she studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough ( diploma 1987) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg with György Ligeti. She then worked as a freelance composer and pianist, including as a founding member of Hamburg Consort / Chaosma ( directed by Manfred Stahnke, together with Hans Peter Reutter, Sidney Corbett, Hubertus Dreyer and others. Since 1994 she moved back to her native Tokyo where she worked as a lecturer at the Toho Junior College of Music teaches since 1997.

Mari Takanos works have received various awards, including the Prize of the Mainichi Newspaper and NHK Radio Japan in 1980, the Irino Prize for Young Composers in 1982, the Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the 1st Prize at the International Composition Competition Ancona ( Italy). Mari Takano received, inter alia orders the city of Hamburg, the American Embassy in Tokyo and the city of Kanagawa.

Mari Takanos works, especially since Women 's Paradise (1988-1991), at least as of ethnic music, pop music, jazz and Renaissance marked as from the traditions of New Music.

A CD of works by the composer is published by BIS (BIS 1238, Women 's Paradise ).