Profile

Mayuko Kawasaki

Composer

Born in Yokohama City, Mayuko Kawasaki was educated at Kunitachi College of Music, obtaining a master’s in composition from the Department of Music Research. She studied composition with Yukio Kikuchi and music theory under Hiroshi Yamaguchi. While a graduate student, she was sent as an international trainee to AIEN: Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice. Her graduate school research was focused on the contrapuntal style of Ravel. Recipient of the New Composers Contemporary Music Prize in the Sogaku-do Japan Lied Composers Competition, Kawasaki has been active in networking with poets, collaborating on works and participating in symposia featuring both composers and contemporary poets. She has been published widely on musicology, contributing to the Yamaha Music Media series book, Absolutely Useful Wind Instrumentalists Handbook; Harmony, among others. Her essay on fugues in the style of Ravel was included in Hiroshi Yamaguchi’s book, Fugue Writing in the Paris Conservatory Style (Ongaku no Tomo). Presently, Kawasaki serves as Full-time Lecturer at Soai University, Osaka, and Part-time Lecturer at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Kawasaki City. She is a member of the Solfege Studies Conference Japan and the Franco-Japanese Association of Contemporary Music.