Keiko Harada

“To imagine and create performers’ inner state during performing” is Keiko Harada’s main and unique compositional approach and it has realized her own musical language. 

Her teachers for composition include Akira Miyoshi and Brian Ferneyhough, for piano Michio Mamiya and Gyorgy Kurtag.

Her compositions have been commissioned by international foundations such as leading festivals, radio stations and orchestras. Internationally active ensembles and soloists such as Ensemble Modern , Phorminx, AsianArt Ensemble Berlin, Ictus (Belgium), Elision(Australia),Yoyo-Ma, Carin Levine, Mike Svoboda, Stefan Hussong, Yumiko Meguri, Kuniko Kato and Toshiya Suzuki as well as many artists from different genres like dance, theater, ikebana and film are interested in her music, leading to many collaborative works. 

Her more than 10-times invited portrait concerts have taken place in Europe and Eastern Asia. 

Numerous compositions have received awards such as Otaka Prize (NHK Symphony), Akutagawa Composition Prize, The Japan Awards and others. In addition, she has been invited for lectures and teaching by many universities including Stanford Univ., Bercley (CA), Pisa Univ., Wuerzburg Univ., Ljubljana Univ. and many others. 

She is currently a professor of Composition at Tokyo College of Music, lecturer of Composition at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Guest Professor at Kagoshima University for researching succession of local traditional sound culture.

Her portrait CD is released commercially at WERGO (King International), Cypres, FONTEC and her scores are published by ZEN-On (SCHOTT), Edition WUNN, Tokyo Concerts and Tokyo Hustle Copy. 

We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/6-questions-for-keiko-harada/