GOTO, SUGURU

Musician

He was born in 1966 in Japan. He is considered as a Japanese new generation composer. After he studied composition and piano in Japan, he moved to the United States to continue his studies at New England Conservatory in Boston. He preceded his post-graduate studies at Technical University Berlin and HDK in Berlin, Germany. He studied composition with Lukas Foss and Earl Brown in U.S.A, and with Robert Cogan at New England Conservatory and Dieter Schnebel in Berlin, at IRCAM, Paris .He has been internationally active and has received numerous prizes and fellowships. He has received Boston Symphony Orchestra Fellowship, Koussevitzky Prize from the Tanglewood Music Center, the first prize at the Marzena International Composition Competition in Seattle, U.S.A, was awarded the "Berliner Kompositionaufträge 1993" by the senate administration for cultural affair, and a prize by the IMC International Rostrum of Composers in UNESCO, Paris. His compositions have been performed in major festivals, such as Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, Akiyoshidai, Klangwelkstadt, Sonar, CICV-Les Nuits Savoueuses, ICC, Electrofolie , International Theater Festival Berezillia, SWR-Faszination Musik, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin, Haus der Kultures der Welt - Haimat Kunst, and Inventionen '94 etc.

In 1995, his first opera "NADA (Media Opera)" was performed in Shauspielhaus, Berlin. At the same year, he moved to Paris in order to realize a project at IRCAM, Paris. In 1996, his "VirtualAERI" was given the first performance at Espace de projection, IRCAM. In 1997, his "o.m.2-g.i.-p.p." was given the first performance at Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Festival in Japan. In 1998, he was invited as a composer in residence by ACREQ and Montreal Conservatory in Canada. In 1999, he gave solo recital concert at ICC in Tokyo, at Atheneum in Dijon, and in Belfort, France. In 2000, his orchestral composition "Resonance II" was given the first performance at Orchard Hall in Tokyo by Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he was invited to SWR-Faszination Musik "Modem" in Stuttgart. Since 1999, he has been organizing a festival "DSPSS" at IAMAS in Gifu, Japan.

He has been producing his computer music compositions at Electronic Music Studio in NHK Broadcasting Company in Tokyo, Electro-acoustic Studio in Technical University Berlin, and at STEIM foundation in Amsterdam. He has been producing computer music and researching at the group "Gestural Controller" in IRCAM, Paris since 1995.

Goto's compositions have been played in Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan, and U.S.A. His compositions are published by "Edition Wandelweiser GmbH". His "Giseion to Gousei" is recorded on CD which is available from Akademie der Künste label.

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