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Malika Kishino

Country of origin: Japan
Birthday: July 16, 1971

About Malika Kishino

Born in 1971 in Kyoto as the daughter of a Buddhist priest, Malika Kishino has lived in Cologne since 2005. After studying law in her homeland, she studied composition and electronic music in France at the École Normale de Paris, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, and IRCAM in Paris with Yoshihisa Taira, Robert Pascal and Philippe Leroux.

Winner of the Rome Prize 2024/25, Kishino creates 'sound organisms' as a composer, viewing her works as living beings with their own development. Her repertoire, which includes solo pieces, orchestral works, and more, consists of over 100 publications with SZ Sugar (Edizioni Suvini Zerboni). She has received grants from the major studios for electroacoustic music including GRAME (Lyon), SWR Experimentalstudio, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Groupe de recherches musicales (INA-GRM, Paris) and Centre Henri Pousseur (Liège).

She has received numerous prizes and awards including the 69th Otaka Award of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, Rome Prize of the Deutschen Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, First Prize in the 6th concours of Groupe de Recherche Appliquée en Musique Electroacoustique (GRAME) and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in 2006, a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and an artist's residency in Schreyahn, Germany.

 

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