Mayako Kubo

Mayako Kubo (Japanese久保 摩耶 子, Kubo Mayako; born December 5, 1947 in Kobe ) is a Japanese composer who has lived in Europe since 1972.

Life

After initial training as a pianist Kubo studied in the seventies composition in Vienna with Roman hood -Ramati, Erich Urbanner and Friedrich Cerha. In 1980 she continued her studies with Helmut Lachenmann. In 1985 she moved to Berlin, where she has since been largely survived.

Kubo has emerged primarily as opera composer; total includes her work around 120 compositions. Your preferred topics are taken from the Japanese literature and mythology. Your first opera Rashomon is based on a novel by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who also served as Akira Kurosawa basis for his eponymous film. " Premiered at the Styrian Autumn in Graz, the opera is a fascinating way with facets of the concept of truth apart. " For the second opera, Osan was a play of the Samurai poet Chikamatsu Monzaemon Godfather. However, current events, see Kubo's oeuvre reflected. Most recently she wrote after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake in Japan in March 2011, the Sanriku poems by Meiko Matsudaira.

Their music " is designed for all recalcitrance on understanding. In many of her pieces, the behavior of people is identified in social contexts. " During their templates often come from the Japanese culture, it is the music in the tradition of European modernism. "Composition as expedition into Disordered and unknown, apart from aesthetic purity and stylistic unity." Kubo's work is characterized by stylistic versatility while biographical continuity and a predominantly dramatic, expressive musical language.

She is co-founder and artistic director of YACOB, the Young Asian Chamber Orchestra Berlin.

Scholarships and Awards

Mayako Kubo was a Fellow of the Japan Foundation, the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, the Bogliasco Foundation and the Yaddo Foundation. She has received grants from the Japanese Ministry of Culture, the City of Vienna, the Alban Berg Foundation, the Federal Academy of Music Rheinberg and the Berlin Senate.

Works

Operas

  • Rashomon (UA 1996 Graz Opera; UA Japanese 2002 version Nissay Theatre Tokyo)
  • Osan - The Secret of Love ( UA 2005 New National Theatre, Tokyo )
  • The filament (UA 2010 Berlin )

Musical theater, performance

  • Hyperion fragments, musical theater (2001)
  • Mothers, Children, Lovers, People, Ballet Suite (1981 /82)

Orchestral works

  • Arachnoid (1980 )
  • Piano Concerto (1985 /86)
  • Symphony No. 1 (1993 /98)
  • Symphony No. 2 (2000)
  • Concertino della porta di Brandeburgo (2008)
  • Sanriku Songs ( 2011)

Chamber Music

  • Berlinisches diary, piano cycle (1989 /90)
  • Yasuko, for chamber ensemble (1996 )
  • Mirlitonnades - 24 songs by Samuel Beckett (2005)
  • Turning Points, String Trio (2007)
  • Respite, Guitarrenquartett (2008)
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