Kanako Okamoto
Kanako Okamoto is rapidly gaining an international profile as an exciting and significant Japanese composer, writing piano music of lyrical power and clear formal design.
Recent performances include the 20th Asian Composers’ League Festival (1999), Federation Music Week in Melbourne (2001), the 7th Evening of ACL/ISCM in Tokyo (2002), the 2002 ACL Forum in Seoul, the 2003 International Festival of Women in Music Today in Seoul, the 14th International New Music Week in Bucharest, Romania (2004), a live ABC Classic FM broadcast from Hobart (2005), the Menin Gate Concert in Australia (2005), the University of Glasgow (2005), the Japan–Australia Exchange concert in Melbourne (2006), Port Fairy Spring Music Festival (2006), the Australian National University (2006 and 2007), and the Kawai Keyboard Series in Brisbane (2007).
She is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers (JFC) and the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).
Artist's website: www2.ocn.ne.jp
Kanako Okamoto is featured on the following titles
Shichiseki
Collaborations with violinist Miwako Abe and cellist Alister Barker sit beside solos written for Michael Kieran Harvey by Gabriella Vici and Andrián Pertout, spanning Japanese, Latin American and South Indian influences.
Crystal Vision
This volume in the Michael Kieran Harvey Collection presents solo piano works by Japanese composer Kanako Okamoto. Two pieces written for Harvey, Petite Suite and Suite, join the title work Crystal Vision, which first drew him to her music.
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Compositions by Kanako Okamoto also appear on
Move 50
Twenty-four Australian composers mark Move Records’ fiftieth year with short new works gathered on this commemorative disc.
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The School of Natural Philosophy
Michael Kieran Harvey plays new music for keyboard by Graham Hair, Douglas Knehans, Martin Friedel, Richard Meale and Hilda Paredes, linking science, landscape and modernist piano writing.
In the Time of Sakura: The Piano Music of Mike Nock
Michael Kieran Harvey plays twenty-seven fully notated piano pieces by Mike Nock. Eclectic in range, they draw on long-standing repertoire and new work written for this collection, a sonic diary shaped by jazz, classical and personal influence.