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Fireflies aglow in music<\/p>\n
\u2026 The Japanese composer Yasuko Yamaguchi illustrates \u2026 shimmering moods of light in her \u201cNachtlied\u201d (\u201cnight song\u201d). She makes fireflies and stars shine in this trio. Actually, the work is a thoroughly composed silence with many nuances \u2013 it was the most impressive composition of this concert, which the e-mex trio played with greatest precision and concentration.<\/p>\n
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– JG
November 30, 2005 | Ruhr Nachrichten Dortmund<\/p>\n
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Born in Nagasaki\/Japan in 1969, Yasuko Yamaguchi studied composition at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Akira Kitamura, Hideo Kobayashi and Michio Mamiya. In 1997 she continued her studies at Robert Schumann Hochschule D\u00fcsseldorf with Manfred Trojahn, where Yasuko Yamaguchi received a Diploma in composition in 2000.<\/p>\n
She received awards at the 13th Kanagawa Prefectural Composition Competition for Choral Works (1989) and at the 8th Composition Competition for Young Composers of the Japanese Society for Contemporary Music (1992). In 2005 she received the advancement award of the state capital D\u00fcsseldorf for music, in 2016 the scholarship of K\u00fcnstlerhof Schreyahn. In 2018 Yasuko Yamaguchi hold the scholarship of the State Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the German Study Center in Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani). In the summer of 2022 she lived in Bellwald (Switzerland) as a scholarship holder of artbellwald.ch. Furthermore, Yasuko Yamaguchi obtained grants from Musikfonds Berlin und German Music Council.<\/p>\n
Yasuko Yamaguchi has received commissions from Kunststiftung NRW, Music From Japan (New York), Tonhalle D\u00fcsseldorf, the Dr. Karl Emil and Lilli Br\u00fcgmann Foundation and D\u00fcsseldorf Altstadt Herbst, for which the orchestral work \u201cDas Stehaufm\u00e4nnchen ist umfallen\u201d (1999) was written. This piece was nominated for the 10th Akutagawa Composition Award (2000) and has been performed consecutively by such eminent Japanese orchestras as the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa conducted by Hiroyuki Iwaki, the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. In December 2003 the CD \u2018The not-well-tempered piano (Toy piano: Bernd Wiesemann, Cybele Verlag) was released, for which Yamaguchi\u2019s toy piano piece \u2018Zuckerregen\u2019 was produced. In February 2004 her orchestral piece \u201cDas Stehaufm\u00e4nnchen ist umgefallen\u201d was released on CD by the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (conductor: Hiroyuki Iwaki, Warner Music Japan).<\/p>\n
Her works have also been performed by various ensembles worldwide, including E-MEX Ensemble, notabu. ensemble D\u00fcsseldorf, Studio Musikfabrik, Th\u00fcrmchen Ensemble Cologne, 175 East in New Zealand, De Ereprijs in the Netherlands, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Ensemble SoNoR in Azerbaijan, Het Nederlands Fluitorkest, Tr\u00edo FeedBack Spain. They have been heard at numerous festivals such as the \u201919th Conference and Festival of Asian Composers\u2019 League 1998\u2032 in Taiwan, the \u2018International Gaudeamus Musicweek 1999\u2032 in the Netherlands,\u201914th Nieders\u00e4chsische Musiktage 2000\u2019 in Hanover, `7th International Youth Music Forum 2001\u2019 in Ukraine, Klangspuren of the Munich Biennale 2008, \u2018ADEvantgarde Festival 2009\u2032 in Munich, the \u201935th Music From Japan Festival 2010\u2019 in New York, \u2018rainy days 2012\u2019 in Luxembourg, the 3rd Festival Internacional VertixeVIGO 2015, Ensems 2020 in Spain, Sound Spaces Festival 2021 in Sweden, and at the 24th Festival de M\u00fasica Contempor\u00e1nea de C\u00f3rdoba in Spain.<\/span> Portrait concerts with Yasuko Yamaguchi’s chamber music took place in Dortmund in May 2007, in D\u00fcsseldorf in September 2008 and in Tokyo in December 2022.<\/p>\n