Born in Nagoya, Japan, Miyuki Ito, received her education in Nagoya and New York, earning a B.A. from Aichi University of the Arts, Japan, M.A. from the Manhattan School of Music, and D.M.A. from Columbia University. She pursued research at IRCAM (Paris) with an artist grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan. Her works have been performed at festivals and venues across the globe, including Centre Acanthes (France), ISCM (Hong Kong, Estonia), Résonances (IRCAM), ICMC (Miami), Spark Festival (Minnesota), SMC (Greece, Spain), ACL (Tokyo, New Zealand), Re:New (Denmark), Visiones Sonoras (Mexico), and Sinus Ton (Germany). She has received commissions from Columbia Sinfonietta (New York), Tokyo Opera City, Music From Japan (New York), Attack Theater (Pittsburgh), Aichi Arts Center (Japan), and Sinus Ton (Germany), as well as from individual musicians. Her awards include the Nagoya Cultural Promotion Agency Prize (Japan), Japan Symphony Foundation Prize and the First Prize in Concorso di Composizione Franco Evangelisti (Rome). She had been a fellow at CMMAS in Mexico with a grant from the Japan Foundation three times. She is the recipient of the Kawai Foundation for Sound Technology & Music and Aigin Education & Culture Foundation in Japan for her research projects. She has taught at Nagoya University of Arts, Chiba Commerce University and Aichi University of the Arts in Japan. Ito is a co-founder and producer of the composer collectives NymphéArt and JUMP (Japan-USA:Musical Perspectives). The NymphéArt’s tenth concert was awarded the 14th Keizo Saji Prize from the Suntory Foundation for Arts, Japan. Her first CD album is titled The Sands of Time, which focuses on works with electronics on ALCD80. The second portrait CD, La Otra Voz has been released on TFCC 2004 in 2020 with the participation work at the 75th National Arts Festival, Japan.

Interview with Miyuki Ito