Kumiko Omura

Kumiko Omura (大村 久美子 Ōmura Kumiko, born 1970 in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese composer in the field of contemporary instrumental and electronic music.

Career

Omura studied with Isao Matsushita, Kenjirō Urata and Jo Kondo at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Then he took music composition with Prof. Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. She further studied electronic music at IRCAM in Paris and Intermedia Art (master degree) with Kiyoshi Furukawa in Tokyo. Her music has been performed in Japan, Korea, USA and Europe (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Musica Viva in Germany, Festival AGORA, Festival Acanthe in France, Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, Emufest in Italy, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik in Austria and Music From Japan in New York) by such orchestras and ensembles as the New Japan Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik, Ensemble recherche, Ensenble resonanz and Nieuw Ensemble. Between 2006 and 2010, she was a guest artist at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 2010–11, she was a composer in residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn.

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