Kanako Abe

Kanako Abe (; born 23 March 1973 in Ōsaka, Ōsaka prefecture) is a Japanese conductor, composer and pianist. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she has performed works by contemporary composers, including Tōru Takemitsu, Michaël Levinas, Régis Campo and Bushra El-Turk. Life and career Abe was born in Osaka in 1973 and received piano lessons from her mother from an early age. She attended music classes at Sōai University in Osaka, attended a high school affiliated with the music faculty of the Tokyo University of the Arts, and eventually studied composition at that university. This was followed by studies at the Paris Conservatory, which she completed in the seven subjects of harmony and harmony theory, counterpoint, fugue, instrumentation, composition analysis, instrumental accompaniment and conducting. Abe studied with renowned musicians, including composition with Masayuki Nagatomi, piano with Jean Körner, instrumentation with Marc-André Dalbavie, and conducting with János Fürst and Péter Eötvös. In 2005 she founded the music ensemble Multilatérale in Paris and worked as the ensemble’s musical director. In 2006 she attended the 50th Venice Biennale, where she conducted a performance