6 Questions for Keiko Harada
In my childhood I was strongly inspired by Debussy’s piano works and also visually by Michio Mamiya’s Score of Piano Sonata No.2, then in and after my late teens by Lachenmann, Ligeti, Kurtag, Webern and Aperghis.
Keiko Harada (*1968) is a composer who has developed her own musical language by incorporating the inner state of the performers into her works. She studied composition with Akira Miyoshi and Brian Ferneyhough and piano with György Kurtág. She works with artists from various genres and has received numerous awards, including the Otaka Prize. Harada teaches composition at the Tokyo College of Music and is a visiting professor at Kagoshima University.
In my childhood I was strongly inspired by Debussy’s piano works and also visually by Michio Mamiya’s Score of Piano Sonata No.2, then in and after my late teens by Lachenmann, Ligeti, Kurtag, Webern and Aperghis.
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