Mari Kamimoto (Japan)
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Born in 1975 in Kobe (Japan), Mari Kamimoto obtained a master’s
degree in composition at the National University for the Fine Arts and
Music in Tokyo and a
first prize for her concerto for cello and orchestra Movement/Dancein
2001.
She entered the Paris Conservatory in 2002, where she studied with
Frédéric Durieux (composition prize in 2006), Luis Naon, Yann Geslin and
Tom Mays (new
technologies), Michaël Levinas (First Prize for analysis in 2005), Denis
Cohen
(orchestration prize in 2007).
In 2003 her electro-acoustic piece Vaguewas broadcast on the Japanese
TV channel (BS- digital) in collaboration with the painter Tomoro Kawai.
In 2004 her
score for 15 musicians La Chaîne cachéewas premiered by the Ensemble
Intercontemporain at
the Arsenal in Metz, conducted by Peter Rundel.
In 2006 Petit Torsefor
wind quintet was
first performed by the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain. At the
Abbaye de Royaumont
she followed the courses of Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell and
François Paris and
presented Tableau de la nuit for three female voices conducted by James
Wood.
For 2005-2006 she received a bursary offered by the Japanese government to
artistes living abroad.
In 2007 her piece for solo piano solo commissioned by the Tokyo Opera
City was played by Rieko Aizawa as part of ‘B to C’.
In 2008, in Japan, she collaborated with the ensemble Les Temps
Modernes of Lyon, in a festival of French music at Yokohama, where she
presented Boucle, sans
jamais dormir…
Since April 2009 she was been assistant teacher at the Toho Gakuen
College of Music and the Kunitachi College of Music.
In 2011, her new piece was commisioned by Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka of
27 musicians: this piece was ordered as a hommage to Gustav Mahler.