Ryoko Aoki
Ryoko Aoki graduated from the Faculty of Music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music with coursework in Traditional Japanese Music and focus on Noh plays. She obtained a Master of Music from the Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music Graduate School. Currently, she is studying for her Doctorate at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. She also led Noh workshops in the Takefu International Music Festival and at various universities in the UK, Republic of Korea, and Japan.She has performed "TSUCHIGUMO," a Noh Play, as part of the Japan Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York. In her repertoire, she has also performed the N-Opera MACBETH in New York and London.
She has played several traditional Noh plays, and she has also challenged collaborations with contemporary composers. She has worked with Peter Eötvös, Toshio Hosokawa, Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi amongst others. She was invited to perform at Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the University of Bonn and Villa Medici in Rome. She performed Noh dance in "Xenakis and Japan" produced by Electronic Music Foundation in NYC in February 2010. She had a concert with the Münchener Kammerorchester at the Münchener Kammerspiele in April 2011. She also had performances in Radialsystem V in Berlin during Asia-Pacific Weeks and gave Noh workshops for Sasha Waltz and Guests in September 2011. She performed Peter Eötvös's Harakiri with ensemble Alter Ego in Rome in December 2011.
Upcoming engagements include the performance with Arditti Quartet.
management
"Women Noh Performers"
published in the journal of the Society for the Study of Musical Drama
2.2000
"Analysis of Noh and composition of Noh-Opera using a sinusoidal model"
by Ken Ito (Keio University)
Ken-Ichi Sakakibara (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Ryoko Aoki (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music)
Naotosi Osaka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
published in "Information Processing Society of Japan" journal.
Portrait Concert of Toshio Hosokawa at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Toshio Hosokawa "From Japanese Folk Song"
Presentation at Noh Institute regular meeting at the Tokyo University
"Considering Women Noh Performers Now"
5.8.2006
Demonstration of Noh play "Makiginu" at the Japan Univeristy Art Faculty
ORCNANA & APPAN International Conference
20.4.2002
Presentation at the Society for the Study of Musical Drama
"The Possibility of Women`s Noh Performance from a Historical Perspective"
workshops
9.9.2008
Takefu International Music FestivalNoh workshop for composers6.7.2007
Intermediate presentations of composers' workshops for "ONGAKU×ONGYOKU"
Since 4.2007, there had been a series of 10 Noh workshops for the composers towards the upcoming performance in September. For this time, presentations of the intermediate process result were supervised by Joji Yuasa.
25.11.2005
Noh workshop at the Hull Univeristy, U.K.
13-17.09.2005
Noh workshop at the Inha Univeristy and Kyonhi University, Korea
20-26.6.2005
Noh workshop at the SOAS, University of London, U.K.
1-7.9.2004
Noh workshop at the SOAS, University of London, U.K.