Kanae Mizobuchi

Profile

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

• 12 Aug 2026under-pass meets Tokyo — Tokyo Concerts Lab
• 4 Sep 2026Sounds around Benjamin Britten — Klangraum / Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

News

Recent

• 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

Doctoral 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

Contact

Enquiries