Dainobu, Ryo 1982

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Last updated:March 12, 2018
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Born in Kumamoto in 1982, she developed an affinity for music through piano and chorus from an early age. After graduating at the top of her class from the composition department of Kunitachi College of Music, she moved to France and began studying composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in 2005. In 2010, she completed both the Master's program in composition and the orchestration program at the same conservatory with highest honors. She studied:
- Composition with Yoshifumi Nakajima, Masakazu Natsuda, Alain Gaussin, Frédéric Durieux, and Gérard Pesson.
- Electronic music with Yan Maresz, Luis Naón, and Tom Mays.
- Composition theory with Tami Nodaira, Hisako Imamura, Denis Cohen, and Michaël Levinas.
Her works have been performed by various ensembles such as Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble Cairn, Ensemble Court-Circuit, Ensemble La Machine, Ensemble Neige, KOHAKU, L'Instant Donné, mmm..., Trio Futurum, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, as well as by many distinguished musicians, across France, Europe, and North America.
She has been invited to various music festivals and concerts, including La Biennale di Musica (Venice), Mladà Praha (Prague), 2 Cartes blanches (Paris, Cité de la Musique), Réunion internationale Gaudeamus-Montréal (Montreal), Festivalul de Muzica Noua Intrada (Timisoara, Romania), and Rainbow 21 international (Tokyo, Suntory Hall). Additionally, she has premiered works commissioned by organizations such as Radio France, Société Générale, and Atelier Musical de Touraine.
In 2012, her work "Mirror in the Mirror," submitted with the recommendation of Radio France, was the sole piece selected in both the general and young composers categories at the 59th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (IRC). The work was subsequently broadcast in 27 countries worldwide before its concert premiere in Venice. In 2014, a solo exhibition of her works was held during the Week of Contemporary Japanese Arts in Corbeil-Essonnes, near Paris, where six of her chamber works were performed.
Currently, she is a lecturer at Kunitachi College of Music and a member of the Franco-Japanese Association for Contemporary Music.