Mayako Kubo is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 pianist and composer.

Life

Mayako Kubo was born in Kobe

Kobe

, pronounced , is the fifth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, approximately west of Osaka...

, Japan

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, and studied piano at Osaka

Osaka

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 College of Music. In 1972 she continued her studies in composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. From 1947 to 1950 he was...

 and Erich Urbanner

Erich Urbanner

Erich Urbanner is an Austrian composer and teacher.-Biography:Urbanner studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the composition classes of Karl Schiske and Hanns Jelinek, as well as studying piano with Grete Hinterhofer and conducting with Hans Swarowsky...

 in Vienna

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, where she composed her first pieces of tape music at the Institute of Electroacoustics and Experimental Music. In the 1980s she studied with Helmut Lachenmann

Helmut Lachenmann

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 in Hannover and Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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 and then musicology with Carl Dahlhaus

Carl Dahlhaus

Carl Dahlhaus , a musicologist from Berlin, was one of the major contributors to the development of musicology as a scholarly discipline during the post-war era....

 in Berlin.

In 1989 Kubo became interested in dramaturgy and theatrical performance, and in 1990 moved to Marina

Marina

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, Italy

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, but then returned to live and work in Berlin

Berlin

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 in 1994.

Honors and awards

• 1978 - 1979 Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture: work *scholarship
• 1979 International Contest for Electronic and Experimental Music, *Bourges: award
• 1980 City of Vienna: work scholarship
• 1982 - 1983 Alban Berg Foundation: scholarship
• 1983 - 1984 Ministry of Science and Research of Lower Saxony: scholarship for artists (Schreyahn)
• 1989 Cultural Senate Berlin: work scholarship
• 1999 Japan Foundation: fellow
• 2000 - 2001 Bundesmusikakademie Rheinsberg: work scholarship
• 2002 Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg: fellow
• 2004 Berlin Senate: scholarship
• 2004 - 2007 Yaddo Foundation: scholarship
• 2006 Bogliasco Foundation: fellow

Works

Selected works include:

• Rashomon, opera (1996; Japanese version 2002)
• Osan - Secret of Love, opera (2003/2004)
• Der Spinnfaden, opera (The Spinning Thread, 2010)
• Margeriten weiss in Flaschenbegleitung, scenic music (2004)
• Hyperion-Fragmente, music theatre (2001)
• 1. Symphony (1993/98)
• 2. Symphony (2000)
• Piano Concerto (1985/86)
• Sanriku-Lieder (2011)
• Mirlitonnades - 24 Lieder (2005)
• Solo für Kontrabass (2005)
• Berlinisches Tagebuch, piano cycle (1989/90)
• Yogi for mixed chorus a cappella (1980)

Her work has been recorded and issued on media, including:

• Wohin, Trio, Ensemble KU, Label: Kreuzberg Records, 2011
• AtemPause, Guitar quartett, Label: UNIMOZ, 2008
• Rashomon opera, Label: edition Ariadne, 1996
• Piano Recital: Ikeya-Fuchino - SOEGIJO, P.G. / GOURZI, K. / ERDMANN, D. / STAEMPFLI, E. / SIMON, A. / KUBO, M. (Berlinisches Tagebuch), Label: Thorofon, 1991

External links

Music Information Center Austria

Publisher Verlag Neue Musik

Mayako Kubo Website