| Naoko
Hishinuma (b. 1970, Tokyo, Japan), graduated from the Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music at the top of her class in 1993 and received
her graduate degree from the same institution in 1995. She studied composition
under Taminosuke Matsumoto and Hinoharu Matsumoto. Hishinuma's work Nowaki
for vibraphone and six cellos won the Japan Music Competition (1993) and
was selected for the International Gaudeamus Music Week (1994). She won
the Queen Marie Jose International Music Composition Prize (1994) for her
orchestral work Spiral, which has received repeat performances, including
by the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande. She was awarded the Japan Music Competition
Prize again (1998) for Reflex for piano and orchestra, for which
she was also honored with the prestigious Akutagawa Award for Music Composition
(1999). Hishinuma's commissions include the orchestral works Cloud Castle
for the Suntory Music Foundation, Hard and Soft for the Sendai Philharmonic
Orchestra, and El Dorado for the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. |
