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Composer website: http://www.m-kinoshita.com/english.html
Born in 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. KINOSHITA Makiko graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Composition Department and completed its graduate school also. Her composition, an orchestra piece "Koten" was performed at the graduation concert as one of the most outstanding graduation pieces. Awarded the prize with "Fantasy" at the Music Competitition of Japan, composition division for orchestra piece, and also "Aura for Orchestra" was chosen as Outstanding Composition by the Japan Symphony Foundation Award.
In 2003, awarded by Mitsubishi Trust Art and Cultural Foundation with the opera"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" commissioned in commemoration of 20th anniversary of the Mozart Theatre. She is a member of the Japan Society for contemporary Music.
Her chief works include: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Opera), "Abyss of Night" (for orchestra), "Sinfonietta" (for Strings), "Gothic" (for wind band), "Percussion Concerto" (for Perc.solo & perc. 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), etc.
Kinoshita has about eighty publications, as well as CD's, such as "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), and many others.
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