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Kanae Mizobuchi
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About
Kanae Mizobuchi is a vocalist and researcher working at the meeting point of contemporary music and improvisation. Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa, she graduated in voice from Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, continued at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Strasbourg, and completed her studies in contemporary vocal performance at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.
She has performed at festivals across Europe and Japan, both as a soloist and as a member of Schola Heidelberg and PHØNIX16. She is currently a doctoral candidate at IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences) in Gifu, Japan, where her research centres on Meredith Monk.
Schedule
Upcoming performances
- 2026.12.13chamber music conert-five:KYOTO ANONYM
- 2026.12.26Three Voices/Morton Feldman Monnaka Tenjo Hall
News
Recent
- Oct 2026Launched a prototype web app, Quarter-Tones & Polyrhythms
- Oct 2026Shared the List ofContemporary Music for Solo Voice
- Aug 2026Essay for the programme of the Meredith Monk documentary, Japanese release.
- Jul 2026Participating in ica2026, Prešov.
- May 2026Her performance of La Cité des Dames is included on Justina Repečkaitė's album Tapestries.
- Apr 2026Article published in the online journal of the Musicological Society of Japan.
Experience
Selected experience
Concerts
- Mar 2026Ensemble Muromachi, Every day is a good day, Tokyo
- Aug 2025GEN-ON Channel, Our Room — portrait concert of Eiko Tsukamoto (nominated for the Keizo Saji Prize)
- Aug 2024Suntory Hall Summer Festival — Philippe Manoury chamber music portrait, Tokyo
- Mar 2023Maerzmusik, Berlin (with PHØNIX16)
- Jan 2023Transmediale, Berlin — Millions of Experiences (Huge If True) with Jennifer Walshe and Jon Leidecker
Awards, grants and residencies
- 2025Nominated for the Keizo Saji Prize (GEN-ON Channel, Our Room)
- 2022/23Selected as Rheinsberger Residenzensemble für neue Musik 2022/23, Musikakademie Rheinsberg, Germany — as a member of Reactive Ensemble feat. OP:__Duo
- 2021Grant, Kunstfonds Stuttgart, Germany
Academies
- 2023Académie ManiFeste, ircam — improvisation, voice and programming, Paris
- 2019/20Academy member, SWR Vokalensemble, Germany
- 2016, 2019Scholarship holder, Voix Nouvelles, Fondation Royaumont, France
Teaching
Teaching and masterclasses
- 2024Masterclass, Durham University, United Kingdom
- 2019–2024Voice teacher, Musikschule Ungefucht, Germany
- 2019Teaching assistant, contemporary vocal performance, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart
Research
Research
Doctoral candidate at IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), Gifu. Her research centres on the work and practice of Meredith Monk, and on voice and the body in contemporary performance.
Full list of publications on researchmap.
Works
Compositions
- 2024L'échelle de Luca — for four performers
- 2019gleichschwebende… — for guitar and voice
- 2018Bl(r)essing — for guitar and voice
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