Composers
Fumio Tamura (President)
M.A.in composition at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with Jo Kondo, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London with Robert Saxton where he was granted the fellowship under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists.
His pieces have been performed at several music festivals such as Spitalfields Music Festival, London, ACL Asian Composers League Festival (Sendai and Seoul), All Japan Band Festival, Tokyo-no-Natsu Music Festival, ISCM Hong Kong 2002, Festival Angelica Bologna, The11th Odessa International Contemporary Music Festival, Uklaine, Daegu Festival, and Klangwerkstatt Berlin Festival für Neue Musik 2012.
He has won prizes including The Valentio Bucchi International Composition Competition Prize in Rome, The JACA Award for Theater Arts, The National Theatre Award, and Honorable commendation on Genesis Prize for Opera 2002.
Associate professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan.
Hiroyuki Itoh (Vice-president)
Hiroyuki Itoh (b. Sakata, Japan, 1963) received his Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego in 1994. He studied composition with Joji Yuasa, Shin-ichiro Ikebe, Roger Reynolds, and Brian Ferneyhough. His awards include first prize at the Nuove Sincronie International Composition Competition (1995), a Stipendienpreis at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse (1996), and the Akutagawa Composition Award for Orchestral Music, one of the most prestigious composition awards in Japan (1998). Itoh has been commissioned by the Suntory Music Foundation, ZEN-ON Music Publishing, the Izumi & Kioi Halls, Yokohama Cultural Foundation, State Theatre in Cottbus, and the Takefu International Music Festival, among many others. His works have been performed: at festivals such as ISCM World New Music Days (2000 in Luxembourg, 2004 in Switzerland, and 2009 in Sweden), Lucerne, Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, Klangspuren, Rümlingen, June in Buffalo, Music From Japan, Music of Japan Today, Seoul, Daegu, Akiyoshidai, and Takefu; by ensembles and orchestras such as the Arditti String Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Ensemble Nomad, Art Respirant, Ensemble Contemporary Alpha, Next Mushroom Promotion, Quartet Excelsior, Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, Vox Humana, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, New Japan Philharmonic, and the Cottbus State Theatre Philharmonic Orchestra. Itoh’s work has been published by Zen-On, Resolute Music Publications, Ricordi, and the Japan Federation of Composers, Inc., and recorded on labels such as Fontec, MusicScape, ALM, Einstein Records, Translive, Telos Music, Genuin, and Stradivarius. He served as a jury member at the Akutagawa Composition Award in 2013, the Music Competition of Japan in 2018, and the JSCM Award for Composers in 2024, among others. He is a professor of composition at the Music Department of Nihon University, College of Art. Itoh currently lives in Tokyo, Japan. https://www.hiroyukiitoh.com
(c)Didier Loire
Hitomi Kaneko
Osamu Kawakami
Hiromichi Kitazume
Yumi Saiki, composer
Born in 1964, Yumi Saiki graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Arts and Music. After graduating from Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in 1991, she joined Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris the same year, where she graduated with top honors of Premier prix à Premier nommé in 1995. In 2005, she pursued further research into electronic music and composition at IRCAM in Paris.
Saiki has been the recipient of several prizes, including the second prize in the Music Competition of Japan in 1993 and the Akutagawa Award for Music Composition in 2005. She has also been commissioned by various groups including Music Tomorrow, Music From Japan, Suntory Foundation for Arts, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as several renowned performing artists. Her major works have been performed by leading orchestras such as NHK Symphony Orchestra, and Ensemble L'itinéraire, Alter Ego, and Tokyo Sinfonietta in music festivals and concerts in Darmstadt, Caen, Gaudeamus, Yogyakarta, Tegu, Seoul, and Takefu. In 2014, a concert of Saiki’s chamber works were presented at Gifu Collection of Modern Arts. Her two CDs, Confessionand Entomophonie, were released by ALM-RECORDS and Fontec, respectively, in 2014. Both were special picks of The Record Geijutsu and recommended discs of The Asahi Shimbun.
Two series of works central to her oeuvre, Song of Insects and Metamorphoses examine questions of time structure in new music. In recent years, she has attempted to create work using religious subjects or events unrelated to music. Saiki gave a presentation of her works at Suntory Hall in November 2018. The concert include a new orchestral commission as part of “Composer’s Profile II 2018”, and also, she gave "a portrait concert" in March 2019 in New York as the Residence Artist of Music From Japan Festival. She is currently a member of the faculty at Tokyo University of the Arts and Kunitachi College of music as well as its graduate school.
Saiki belongs to The Japan Society for Contemporary Music, The Japan Federation of Composers Inc, Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and publishers, and Ensemble Contemporary α.
Jummei Suzuki
Satoshi Sekiai
Hiroaki Takaha