Makiko Kinoshita Explained

is a Japanese composer. She was born in Tokyo, and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts.^{[1] [2]}

Honors and awards

• First prize, Music Competition of Japan
• Outstanding Composition Award, Japan Symphony Foundation
• Mitsubishi Trust Art and Cultural Foundation award (2003)

Works

Kinoshita is known in Japan for choral music, but writes for orchestra and chamber ensemble, and instruments, as well. Selected works include:

• Koten for orchestra
• Fantasy, for orchestra
• Aura, for Orchestra
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Opera)
• Abyss of Night (for orchestra)
• Sinfonietta (for Strings)
• Gothic (for wind band)
• Rain (for mandolin orchestra)
• Percussion Concerto (for Percussion solo & percussion ensemble)
• The Trembling Moon (for Percussion ensemble)
• Twisting Landscapes (for Clarinet, Violin and Piano)
• A Circuit of Dreams (for Piano)
• Jashumon-Hikyoku (for mixed voices and orchestra)
• Blue (for female voices and percussion)
• Nirvana (vocal & piano)
• Circuit of Dream (piano suite)^[3]

Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• The Trembling Moon, (chamber music / ALM Records)
• Jashumon-Hikyoku (chorus and orchestra / Fontec)
• Blessing (chorus without accompaniment / Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation)
• Tsuyoshi Mihara Sings Makiko Kinoshita (lied album / Fontec)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Makiko Kinoshita official website. 23 December 2010.
2. Book: A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. Dees, Pamela Youngdahl. 2004.
3. Book: Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies. Gale Group. 2001.