Miyuki Ito 

Composer Ito, Miyuki

Miyuki ITO, born in Nagoya, Japan, obtained her degree in composition from the Aichi University of Fine Arts and Music, and received her Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where she studied with Naoyuki Terai and Pierre Charvet. Among the prizes she has won are the Award for Choir Piece from the Kanagawa (Japan) Prefecture, the Abbott Chamber Players Composition Contest (Boston, USA), the Boris and Edna Rapoport Prize in New York, as well as grants from the Centre Acanthes (France), the Darmstadt Festival (Germany), and the Japanese Ministry for Cultural Affairs. Her opera, Princess Kaguya, commissioned by the Harmonia Opera Company, was premiered at the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York in 1998. Her piece for chamber orchestra, Fading Beauty..., composed for the Columbia Sinfonietta, was premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2000, and was selected to be presented at the ISCM World Music Days Festival 2002 in Hong Kong. Towards the Universe… for soprano and piano, commissioned by the Tokyo Opera (Japan), was premiered in 2001. Presently she is pursuing Doctoral studies in composition with Tristan Murail at Columbia University in New York.