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Kotoka Suzuki

Appointments:

Assistant Professor, Department of Music

Education:

D.M.A., Stanford, 1999

Contact:

Office: Goodspeed 207
Phone: (773) 834-9935
Email: ksuzuki@uchicago.edu
Website: http://www.kotokasuzuki.com

Photo: Daniel Collins

Kotoka Suzuki, Assistant Professor of Music, is a composer of instrumental and electro-acoustical music, large multi-media production works, and music for dance and film. Since her artist-in-residency at DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, she has been increasingly engaged in producing collaborative audio-visual works with several artists in Germany, Canada, and the U.S. Her works have been performed at festivals such as Inventionen, MATA, Ultraschall, World Music Days, and ICMC, by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Continuum, Pacifica Quartet, Earplay Ensemble, and Nouvel Ensemble Modern (Montréal). Among her recent awards include George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Fellowship, Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art Competition Prize in multimedia category, Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition Honor Prize, Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts, and Gerald Oshita Fellowship Award from Djerassi Resident Artists Program. D.M.A., Stanford, 1999; at Chicago since 2004.

Recent Courses Taught

  • MUSI 28300 / 36901. Topics in Composition (Musical Language of Toru Takemitsu). Winter, 2008
  • MUSI 28200 / 38200. Multiple-Media Composition. Autumn, 2006
  • MUSI 26900. The Musical Language of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Spring, 2006

Selected Works

  • Umidi Soni Colores, 50 Years Studio TU Berlin - DVD (2005), EMF-Media #EMF DVD 054
  • Cultures Electroniques 18 - DVD (2005), (LCD 278 079)
  • Minyo (1997); String quartet
  • Trasparent String (1995); Piano trio
  • String Quartet (1994)
  • Quartet in Two Movements (1993); Flute, clarinet, piano, and percussion