Michiko Ogawa

Michiko Ogawa is a performer-composer specialising in the clarinet and computer, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She performs not only classical repertoire but also contemporary and experimental musics, including free improvisation and film soundtrack work.

She has appeared at the Tokyo Experimental Festival (2013), Darmstadt summer music festival (2016), Supersense Festival of Ecstatic Music (2015), the Monday Evening Concert series (Los Angeles, 2016), WasteLAnd (Los Angels, 2016), Inland series (Melbourne, 2015, 2016), BIFEM (Bendigo, Australia 2016, 2017, 2019), Maerzmusik (Berlin, 2018, 2019) and Brisbane International Film Festival (Brisbane, 2018), Ftarri Festival (Tokyo, 2019) among others.

She has worked with composers including Toshi Ichiyanagi, Helmut Lachenmann, Richard Barrett, Hunjoo Jung, Cat Lamb and Chikako Morishita, and with performers including Charles Curtis, Anthony Burr, Erik Carlson, Greg Stuart, Vicki Ray, among others.

She also has been collaborating with musicians Samuel Dunscombe, Taku Sugimoto, James Rushford, Carolyn Chen, Golden Fur and Manuel Lima, Jonny Chang and Klaus Lang.  She also frequently collaborates with visual artists, such as Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom,  Brianna Rigg and Sabina Maselli.

She was awarded Master’s degree(MA) from the Musikhochschule Freiburg under Prof. Jörg Widmann,  and in 2019 she was also awarded a doctorate (DMA) from the University of California (San Diego), with a dissertation focusing on the film music of Teiji Ito. She worked as an associate-in for teaching clarinet at the University of California (San Diego) during 2015-2017.

Links:
http://www.michikoogawa.com

Our releases:
NCT012 – Taku Sugimoto | Sam Dunscombe | Denis Sorokin | Michiko Ogawa – trios | 2020