Tomoko Mukaiyama

Tomoko Mukaiyama
koto, piano

After winning the first prize of the Gaudeamus competition, Tomoko Mukaiyama has performed with prestigious orchestras and ensembles like the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among many others. She has collaborated with film directors, designers, architects, dancers, and photographers such as Ian Kerkhof, Mariana Abramovic, MERZBOW, Kim Ito, and Jiri Kylian.

Ten years ago Tomoko Mukaiyama started working as a visual artist. She used her experience as a concert pianist to create her first installation piece in a concert hall. She gave new meaning to the concert hall as a location with her project Amsterdam x Tokyo (2000) and for you - Yokohama Triennial (2002). She studied the absence and presence of the composer, audience, and pianist in her installation you and bach that she made for the Sydney Biennale in 2006. In Show me your second face (2007) she transformed herself and the piano into a fashion sculpture.

Her music installation Mo-ichido (2008) also included the experience of scent by integrating organic odors and perfume. Her current multimedia project wasted has successfully toured five locations all over the world. At present, she is composing a new piece for Club Guy and Roni's new production Four Walls. Ms. Mukaiyama has also been selected as the Artist in Resident at De Doelen in Rotterdam for the period 2010-2011, working on a performance concert with choreographer Marco Goecke.

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Performances

Trilogy of the Last Day
Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory | November 4, 2005
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News and Press

[Press Release] 1996-2006: A decade of orchestral milestones
In 1996, Gil Rose set out to restore a widening disconnect between contemporary audiences and contemporary music—a relatively recent trend in the rich history of orchestras. The result was the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and a new orchestral model. Ten years later, BMOP remains dedicated to its mission and is considered by many to be the leading orchestra for commissioning, performing, and recording modern orchestral music. April 1996 Premiere Performance of BMOP
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[News Coverage] "Premiere is a work of complexity," The Boston Globe says of Andriessen's latest piece
The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has won the respect of warring factions within the contemporary-music world. At 66, Andriessen has kept his footing at the cutting edge of the avant-garde for more than four decades; at the same time, the imagination and precision of his workmanship rival those of the most mandarin masters of modernism.
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[Press Release] BMOP performs North American premiere of Louis Andriessen's Trilogy of the Last Day
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), under artistic director and conductor Gil Rose, begins its 2005-2006 concert season with the North American premiere of Louis Andriessen's Trilogy of the Last Day. BMOP is one of the few professional orchestras in the United States dedicated exclusively to performing and recording music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since its founding in 1996, BMOP has programmed 46 concerts of contemporary orchestral music, released ten world premiere recordings, and won eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming.
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[Press Release] BMOP opens its season with the North American premiere of Louis Andriessen's Trilogy of the Last Day
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), under artistic director and conductor Gil Rose, is one of the few professional orchestras in the United States dedicated exclusively to performing and recording music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since its founding in 1996, BMOP has programmed 46 concerts of contemporary orchestral music, released ten world premiere recordings, and won eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming.
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The music itself is very direct and powerful.

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