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2010.12.19 talk & concert Chikage Imai

Noh X Contemporary Music - talk & concert 5 composers

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Vol.2  Chikage Imai

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Zuisho-ji temple Art project

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Talk : Chikage Imai ＆ Ryoko Aoki

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Chikage Imai 
"Once upon a time, a man... ~ from Ise Monogatari" for Noh voice and piccolo 
(commissioned jointly by Nakagawa Canal Art and ensemble-no) (2010) 

Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Ayako Okubo (piccolo) 　


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With Joji Yuasa

2011.1.8 talk & concert Kumiko Omura

Noh X Contemporary Music - talk & concert 5 composers 

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Vol.3  2011.1.8 17:00-      talk & concert   Kumiko Omura  
 

1 talk : Kumiko Omura ＆ Ryoko Aoki 

2 Kumiko Omura "new work" for Noh voice, flute and percussion 
   (commissioned by ensemble-no 2010) (world premiere) 
          
Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Ayako Okubo (flute) Olivier Maurel (percussion) 

 

■venue

Zuisho-ji temple Art project（Zuisho-ji 3-2-19 Shirokane-dai, Minato, Tokyo, Japan）



■ticket

admission free　(advance booking is required→Noh X Contemporary Music)

 
 

■inquiries 




presented by ensemble-no
supported by Minato prefecture grant for culture




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Kumiko Omura

After studying at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with Kenjiro Urata, Isao Matsushita and Jo Kondo, she studied composition with Prof. Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen in Germany, and participated in the annual composition course at IRCAM, Paris. She studied also Intermedia Art with Kiyoshi Furukawa and holds a Masters from Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Currently, she is working as composer at ZKM (Center of Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has gone on to win numerous international awards, including the Irino Prize, the grand prix at the Gaudeamus Music Week in Holland, prize at the Biennale Neue Musik Hannover in Germany, the young artist prize at the Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, and Takefu composition prize. Her works have been performed in Europe, USA and Japan at such festivals as Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (Germany), AGORA festival (France), Music from Japan (USA) and International Computer Music Conference. In March 2009, her portrait concert took place at ZKM.

2011.1.4 Kenji Sakai "Hyperlink"


2011.1.4 19:00-　 

Kenji Sakai "Hyperlink" etc.. 

Ryoko Aoki (voice), Hiroaki Takaha (conductor), ensemble muromachi 


■venue 

Tokyo Bunka-kaikan small hall 
5-45 Ueno-park, Taito-ku, Tokyo


■ticket 

4,000Yen　(concession 2,500Yen)　 



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Kenji Sakai 

Kenji Sakai was born in Osaka (Japan) in 1977. After studying piano and composition in Japan, with Yoko Kubo, Kei Kondo then with Syuichi Maeda and Hinoharu Matsumoto at Kyoto University of Fine Arts and Music, he residents in Paris since 2002 and studied composition, electronics and analysis with Frédéric Durieux, Allain Gaussin, Marco Stroppa, Luis Naon, Claude Ledoux and Michaël Levinas at Paris National Superior Conservatory, then with Michael Jarrell at Geneva Conservatory. 
From 2007 to 2009, he has been a participant of cursus under Yan Maresz at Ircam. 
His works are premiered by Ensemble Contrechamps, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Sinfonietta or Ensemble Intercontemporain which premiered "Astral/Chromoprojection" at Centre Pompidou (Paris) etc... For the 2009-2010 season, his works will be played at Festival Agora (Paris), Festival Acanthes (Centre Pompidou-Metz), Suntory Summer Festival (Suntory Hall, Tokyo), Festival Musica (Strasbourg) etc... His new work for symphony orchestra, "Nebulous Nix" will be premiered by Lucerne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Nott in May 2011. 
Since 2003, he won several scholarships and awards: Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, Rohm Music Foundation, Nomura Foundation, SACEM and Grand prix of George Enescu International Competition (2007), First prize of Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (judge: Helmut Lachenmann, 2009), Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne Award (2010) etc...

2010.12.19 talk & concert Chikage Imai

Noh X Contemporary Music - talk & concert 5 composers 

■programme 

Vol.2 2010.12.19 17:00- talk & concert Chikage Imai 

1 talk : Chikage Imai ＆ Ryoko Aoki 

2 Chikage Imai "Once upon a time, a man... ~ from Ise Monogatari" for Noh voice and piccolo (commissioned jointly by Nakagawa Canal Art and ensemble-no) (2010) 
     Ryoko Aoki (Noh voice) Ayako Okubo (piccolo) 　　　



■venue 

Zuisho-ji temple Art project（Zuisho-ji 3-2-19 Shirokane-dai, Minato, Tokyo, Japan）    


■ticket 

admission free　(advance booking is required→Noh X Contemporary Music) 


■inquiries 



presented by ensemble-no 
supported by Minato prefecture grant for culture



 
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Chikage Imai

Chikage Imai was born in Nagoya (Japan) and studied with Akihiko Matsui at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. She met Joji Yuasa at Akiyoshidai summer seminar in 2002. Since then he has been her private mentor. After moving to Amsterdam in 2003 she continued to study composition with Wim Henderickx and Fabio Nieder at Conservatorium van Amsterdam supported by Rohm Music Foundation. Her musical activity has been broadened internationally through her chamber ensemble piece Vectorial Projection I - bouncing ball (2006). The piece was performed in Gaudeamus muzikweek and awarded an honorable mention of the 28th Irino Prize for Chamber music. In 2008 Vectorial Projection IV - fireworks (2008) was commissioned by Festival d'Automne á Paris and premiered by Irvine Arditti and Nieuw Ensemble. Simulgenesis for 17 musicians (2009) was written for the 4th International Composition Seminar of the International Ensemble Modern Academy and through the piece she received a commission from Westdeutschen Rundfunks to write a piece for Ensemble Modern. Her music is produced from Muzikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm and Ensemble Modern Media. Imai is also engaged into working on cross-media art with visual art, stage design and so on. She is currently an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway University of London.

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