Yoshiko Kanda / Percussion (Composer,Arranger)
Born in 1970, studied
at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,
and Master's degree of the university with Dr.Makoto ARUGA and
Dr.Michiko TAKAHASHI.
Yoshiko whose main interest is in comptenporary music, played
several concerto
for percussion by contemporary composers such as Maki ISHII and
Motoharu KAWASHIMA, with Japanese reading orchestras.
She has taken part in the Japan premier of a piece by
Brian Ferneyhough,the Akiyoshidai International Seminer and Festival
for
Contemporary Music,and the Asian Composers' Legue Festival in
Thailand,
while has had recording sessions for broadcasting. She is currently
working with young
composers who write specially for her.
Won the Scholarship Prize form Darmstad International Summer
Festival for
Contemporary Music in 1996 and 98, and was invited to the festival
in 2000.
Since 1996, she has been working on a series of her recital <sound,
created>.
Recent member of "ITO" ,Traditional Japnese Instrument
band produced by YUJI TAKAHASHI,
PERCUSSION
TRIO <The Birds>, Ensemble comtemporary α and
C⇔Y PROJECT.