ITO Ken
Japanese composer ITO Ken, born 1965,
graduated from both the Department of
Physics and the Department of General Culture
at Tokyo University. After studies with Jo KONDO,
John CAGE, Yoritsune MATSUDAIRA
and being awarded various composition prizes,
he worked as the Artistic Director for
the Mono Opera's The Tale of Gengi by Y. T. Matsudaira.
He was a Ministry of Culture fellow
at the Tokyo Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
and has conducted concerts in the USA, Japan
and Denmark. His works have been performed
in the USA, Japan Finland, Austria, and England.
His first work for ELISION Ensemble was Subjectile Forcene,
performed at the 1996 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
1996
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