Makiko Kinoshita
Makiko Kinoshita is a Japanese composer. She was born in Tokyo, and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Makiko Kinoshita
- Born
- 1956 · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- composer · musicologist · music educator · pianist
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Tokyo University of the Arts
- Languages
- Japanese
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Makiko Kinoshita is a Japanese composer. She was born in Tokyo, and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts.
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Kinoshita is known in Japan for choral music, but writes for orchestra and chamber ensemble, and instruments, as well. Selected works include: • Koten for orchestra • Fantasy, for orchestra • Aura, for Orchestra • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Opera) • Abyss of Night (for orchestra) • Sinfonietta (for Strings) • Gothic (for wind band) • Rain (for mandolin orchestra) • Percussion Concerto (for Percussion solo & percussion ensemble) • The Trembling Moon (for Percussion ensemble) • Twisting Landscapes (for Clarinet, Violin and Piano) • A Circuit of Dreams (for Piano) • Jashumon-Hikyoku (for mixed voices and orchestra) • Blue (for female voices and percussion) • Nirvana (vocal & piano) • Circuit of Dream (piano suite) Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including: • The Trembling Moon, (chamber music / ALM Records) • Jashumon-Hikyoku (chorus and orchestra / Fontec) • Blessing (chorus without accompaniment / Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation) • Tsuyoshi Mihara Sings Makiko Kinoshita (lied album / Fontec)
Honors and awards
• First prize, Music Competition of Japan • Outstanding Composition Award, Japan Symphony Foundation • Mitsubishi Trust Art and Cultural Foundation award (2003)
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- 1.Makiko Kinoshita official website.
- 2.Dees, Pamela Youngdahl. A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. 2004.
- 3.Gale Group. Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies. 2001.
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