Mayuko Matsumoto
A composer from Nagano, Japan.
Drawing on the relationships between sounds, and between sound and people, she weaves music that spatially reconfigures the contexts inherent in sound itself.
In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and solo instruments to include interdisciplinary projects such as performances based on the listener’s spatial stance (Listening to the one who listens), sound installations (earden, Oto-shakkei / Borrowed Soundscape), and music for film. She is also actively engaged in organizing music workshops and concerts in regional areas, undertaking residency-based creation, and composing music for stage productions and visual art spaces.
Major musical works include Kagura Paraphrase I–II(2020), which draws on Kagura traditions from Nagano Prefecture; Within behind the Eyelids(2023), commissioned by Ensemble Nomad; and the orchestral work the stars in flux(2024), commissioned by NHK. Beyond the field of music, she has presented numerous interdisciplinary works, including the theatre piece MONONOKE(2025), the sound installation Composition: Listening to Borrowed Soundscape(2025), and the video work the ash air(2025).
She studied composition at Nihon University College of Arts in Tokyo and with Hiroyuki Itoh and Naoko Hishinuma. She completed the master’s program in 2019. She was a research fellow at the Nihon University College of Arts in 2021-22, where he studied music education and composition.
She has received several prizes for music compositions in 2019; Yukawa Osamu Prize from Nihon University College of Arts, 1st prize at the 88th Music Competition of Japan, the Meiji-Yasuda Prize and Miyoshi one, and the Audience Prize at the 36th JSCM award for composers.
松本真結子
作曲家。長野県出身。
音と音、あるいは音と人の関係性から音楽を紡ぎ、音自体に内在する文脈を空間的に再構成する。
近年は、オーケストラ、室内楽、ソロのための作品発表にとどまらず、聴く人の空間の居方に基づくパフォーマンス: 聴く人をきく、サウンドインスタレーション:earden・音借景、映像音楽など、領域を超えた作品を多数発表。地方での音楽ワークショップ・演奏会の企画、滞在制作、舞台や美術空間への楽曲提供を行う。
主な音楽作品に、長野県の神楽を引用した「Kagura ParaphraseⅠ-Ⅱ」(2020)、アンサンブル・ノマド委嘱「瞼の裡に、」(2023)、 NHK委嘱オーケストラ作品「流転の星々」(2024)。領域を横断した作品として、シアターピース「MONONOKE」(2025)、サウンドインスタレーション「コンポジション：音借景にきく」、映像作品「the ash air」。
日本大学大学院芸術学研究科音楽芸術専攻(作曲)を修了。修了作品「the wandering memory」及び論文「声明と現代音楽 石井眞木<蛙の声明を例として>」に対し湯川制賞を受賞(2019)。第35回現音作曲新人賞に入選、及び聴衆賞「the wandering memory」(2019)。第88回日本音楽コンクール作曲部門第1位、及び三善賞、明治安田賞受賞「風の形象」(2019)。これまでに、伊藤弘之、菱沼尚子各氏に師事。研究員として日本大学芸術学部に所属(2021-2022)。