Kumiko Omura

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. She then 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’s 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 Munich, 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, Ensemble resonanz and Nieuw Ensemble. Between 2006 and 2010, she was a guest artist at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany, and from 2010–2011 she was a composer-in-residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn. Recognition * 1994: Irino Prize in Japan * 1998: Gaudeamus Inte