Workshop Komposition mit Aya Yoshida

Termine:
Mi, 13. Juni 2018, 12.00–14.00 Uhr, Raum 4.11:
Workshop Komposition mit Aya Yoshida

Di, 19. Juni 2018, 16.30–18.30 Uhr, Raum 2.04:
Workshop Komposition mit Takuya Imahori

Aya Yoshida (geb. 1992) und Takuya Imahori (geb. 1978) gehören zu den erfolgreichsten jüngeren japanischen KomponistInnen. Sie konnten für das Frühjahr 2018 einen der begehrten Stipendienplätze des Artists-in-Residence-Programms von Bundeskanzleramt und  KulturKontakt Austria für sich entscheiden. An der MUK werden sie in Lectures Einblick in ihr kompositorisches Schaffen geben und über ihre Arbeit als KomponistInnen berichten.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von KulturKontakt Austria
Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung Musikalische Strukturanalyse/Formenlehre bei Julia Purgina

Aya Yoshida is a Japanese composer. Born in Kobe, Japan in 1992. She began composing at 6 under the guidance Mrs.Yasuko Osato. She graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo under the tutelage of composition lecturer Kenya Masakado and Prof. Masaki Norikura in 2014. She also studied composition theory and classical piano performance with Prof. Masaki Norikura. She trained in violoncello and classical vocal with lecturer Yoko Hasegawa and lecturer Kei Yonashiro during her time in Japan. Since 2014, she moved to Copenhagen,Denmark and she completed her postgraduate studies in composition with Niels Rosing Schow and Jeppe Just Christensen at The Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Her works have been performed in Japan and Europe by diverse range of soloists, ensembles and orchestras, including the performances by Curious Chamber Players in Viitasaari, Finland (2013), by Arditti Quartet (2014) and by Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2016) in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Moreover she just had her very first opera Skyggen (The Shadow) in Copenhagen, Denmark on 16th and 17th November 2017 to celebrate the 150th anniversary for the diplomatic friendship between Japan and Denmark following with the official event of the Japanese Embassy in Denmark and the Danish Ministry of Culture. Also the opera was awarded by Danish Arts Foundation for The best 10 music publishing/releasing of this year.
She also participated in workshops and festivals in Japan and Europe e.g. with Eric Tanguy and Peter Ablinger. In addition to this, she has worked with a number of singer songwriters on arrangements, compositions and recordings and has performed alongside them at concerts, events and live performances.
She is often inspired by fashion when she composes her works and her works’ titles are often coming from fashion terms, for example, Polka dots, Tone on Tone Check, and Pointed toe.
She has been the chairman of NPO Japanordic since 2016.

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