Women Composers - Noriko Koide

Noriko Koide

Japan | *1982

Noriko Koide studied composition in Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Den Haag. She also studied traditional Javanese Gamelan music in Indonesia. Koide won the Akutagawa Award for Music Composition (2007) and received many awards and prizes. In the Tongyeong International Music Festival 2016, she won the Asian Composers Showcase’s Goethe-Award and its Audience Award. Though she uses various compositional styles depending on the theme of each work, her works can be characterized by the textures and colours formed by the resonance of innovative orchestration, fine musical shapes, and extended techniques.

Noriko Koide

Hakata Rhapsody

for orchestra (2020) · 10’

Oyster Lullaby

for orchestra (2018–2019) · 13’

un poco don poco

for piano (2016–2017) · 5’

Hyssop

for fortepiano (2008) · 4’

Paradise Fishes, Brilliant Night

for clarinet, violin and piano (2007/2013) · 7’