BIOGRAPHY
Chatori Shimizu (b. 1990) is a Dresden based composer, shō performer, and sound artist, who constructs his works for a wide range of mediums concerning the time identity in sound. Ranging from orchestral works to sound installations, all of his works "engage in repetitive patterns of sound motifs, which aims for the slightest change in the pattern to act as an accent" (New York Seikatsu), and is described as "a flared infotainment playground" (Mehrlicht Dresden).
As the First Prize Winner of the 2016 Malta International Composition Competition, Shimizu's works have been performed and exhibited throughout Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Thailand, United Kingdom, and the United States, by acclaimed ensembles and musicians such as AuditivVokal, Hidejiro Honjoh, Linea, Multilatérale, Mayumi Miyata, mise-en, Mivos, S.E.M, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Sound Factory Orchestra, among others. Shimizu has been awarded fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, Columbia University School of the Arts, Institute of Medieval Japanese Studies, the Mitsubishi Foundation, Omi International Arts Center, Soundstreams, Toshiba Foundation, and Yaddo. His music scores are published from United Music & Media Publishing (Belgium), and his album "O" released from Elektramusic (France).
As an active researcher in the compositional approaches of the shō, he has conducted numerous lectures and demonstrations regarding the notation and the extended techniques of Japanese instruments in universities worldwide, such as Baruch College, Cornell University, The Graduate Center at CUNY, Manhattan School of Music, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, Tamagawa University, among others. He is a co-founder of SEED: Virtual Composition Academy, a tuition-free, online-based platform connecting composers with the top musicians of East Asian heritage instruments.
Shimizu was born in Osaka, Japan, and spent his formative years in Singapore. Upon receiving the Professional Diploma in Piano Performance with High Honors at age twelve, he studied computer music and composition with Shintaro Imai and Motoharu Kawashima at Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, graduating with the Arima Prize - the highest recognition for the graduating class. He received his MFA from Columbia University, New York City, where he studied at the Computer Music Center with Brad Garton and Zosha Di Castri, and at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (MM), under the tutelage of Mark Andre, Stefan Prins, and Jörn Peter Hiekel. He serves as Co-Artistic Director of Composers' Collective Tesselat.
Education
2020 Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Dresden, Germany (MM in Composition)
2016 Columbia University, New York, NY (MFA in Sound Arts)
2014 Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, Japan (BA in Computer Music, summa cum laude)
Awards & Honors
2021 Kunitachi Prize "Shōrei Award" (Tokyo, Japan)
2021 Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores (Los Angeles, CA)
2020 Asian Cultural Council Grant 2020 (New York, NY)
2020 The 21st Century Guitar Call for Scores (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 ISCM 2020 World New Music Days Call for Scores (Christchurch, New Zealand)
2019 15th Sun River Prize Honorable Mention (Chengdu, PR China)
2019 Follow My Score #fms2019 Call for Scores
2019 10th JFC Composition Competition Honorable Mention (Tokyo, Japan)
2019 Musicaphoria 2019 Call for Scores (Tangerang, Indonesia)
2019 Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Call for Scores (Leuk, Switzerland)
2018 GRIT Collaborative Call for Scores (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
2018 27th International Review of Composers Call for Scores (Belgrade, Serbia)
2018 Bushwick Open Studio 2018. Call for Sound Arts/Electroacoustic Music (New York City, NY, USA)
2018 Ludgar Hofmann-Engl Call for Scores for Piano Works (Wroclaw, Poland)
2018 Honorific Mention, Allentown Symphony Association Composer Competition (Allentown, PA, USA)
2017 NAT28 Call for Scores Winner (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
2017-2018 Mitsubishi Foundation Fellowship (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
2016 First Prize: 2016 Malta International Composition Competition (fiddle) (Valletta, Malta)
2016 Columbia University School of the Arts Dean's Grant (-shikaku-) (New York, NY, USA)
2015 Toshiba International Foundation Arts & Culture Grant (Co-recipient) (New York, NY, USA)
2015 IMJS Gagaku-‐Hogaku Mentor/Protégé Initiative Fellowship (Tokyo, Japan)
2015 Columbia University School of the Arts Dean's Grant (play_algorithm.), (New York, NY, USA)
2014 Tokyo to New York Call for Scores Winner (New York, NY, USA)
2014 Audio Visual Synthesis Workshop at Dartmouth Fellowship (Hannover, NH, USA)
2014-2016 Columbia University School of the Arts Scholarship (New York, NY, USA)
2014 Arima Prize, Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo, Japan)
2013 Honorable Mention (umbra), TIAA Composition Competition (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 A-EN Project 2012 Call for Scores Winner (Tokyo, Japan)
2003 High Honors Award, Australian Guild of Music and Speech (Singapore)
Festivals and Residencies
2021 ReMusik.org (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2021 The 21st Century Guitar Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020 ISCM World New Music Days (Christchurch, New Zealand) [CANCELED]
2020 UVM Festival of New Music (Burlington, VT, USA) [CANCELED]
2020 Musiques Eclatées (Strasbourg, France) [CANCELED]
2019 chor.com 2019 (Hannover, Germany)
2019 2019 Asia Saxophone Congress (Shanghai, China)
2019 28th International Review of Composers (Belgrade, Serbia)
2019 Visby International Center for Composers (Gotland, Sweden)
2019 Musicaphoria 2019 (Tangerang, Indonesia)
2019 Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (Bangkok, Thailand)
2019 Etchings Festival 2019 (Auvillar, France)
2019 Dresdener Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019 (Dresden, Germany)
2018 Hearing China 2018 (Shanghai, China)
2018 Gamelan Composers' Forum at University of London SOAS (London, UK)
2018 Oh My Ears! Festival (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
2018 27th International Review of Composers (Belgrade, Serbia)
2018 Bushwick Open Studios: Electronic Music Week (New York City, NY, USA)
2018 14th Thailand International Composition Festival (Bangkok, Thailand)
2018 Nebula Summer Festival (Greenwood Village, CO, USA)
2018 nief norf Summer Festival 2018 (Knoxville, TN, USA)
2018 Cluster: New Music and Integrated Arts Festival (Winnipeg, MN, Canada)
2018 Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival and Symposium (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
2017 OUA-Electronic Music Festival (Osaka, Japan)
2017 Université d'Altitude 2017 (Saint-Martin-Vésubie, France)
2017 Corporation of Yaddo Artist Residency Fellow (Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)
2017 21C Music Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada)
2017 Soundstream Emerging Composers Workshop Fellow (Toronto, ON, Canada)
2017 Ragdale Foundation Residency (Lake Forest, IL, USA)
2017 S.E.M Emerging Composers Workshop (New York, NY, USA)
2016 Electronic Music Midwest Festival (Romeoville, IL, USA)
2016 Music Omi (Columbia County, NY, USA)
2016 ONE MONTH FESTIVAL (Tokyo, Japan)
2016 New Music On the Point Festival (Lake Dunmore, VT, USA)
2015 Gagaku-Hōgaku Mentor/Protégé Summer Initiative (Tokyo, Japan)
2014 Audio Visual Synthesis Workshop (Hannover, NH, USA)
Selected Commissions
2020 Fat Samurai for soloist, choir, and orchestra; commissioned by HfM Carl Maria von Weber
2019 Rightist Mushrooms for choir, commissioned by AuditivVokal
2019 Poo Lettuce for saxophone and electronics, commissioned by Pisol Manatchinapisit
2018 Pink Elephant in Prentis for sheng and orchestra, commissioned by Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra
2017 légère fièvre for flute and percussions, commissioned by Nebula Ensemble
2017 Being a Hermit for guitar and chamber orchestra, commissioned by Kenji Haba
2017 Kingyo Obsession for four voices (SATB), commissioned by Soundstreams
2016 economy for bass shamisen and bass clarinet, commissioned by Tokyo to New York Concert Series
2016 Translucent for 8-string guitar; commissioned by Joseph Ehrenpreis
2016 EROSION for shō, hichiriki, and koto, commissioned by Thomas Piercy
2015 boooooooooon for chamber orchestra, electronics, and video, commissioned by ensemble mise-en
2014 Shiki tō Unkai III for shō and percussions, commissioned by A-EN Project
2014 Worlds of No Overlaps for piano, commissioned by Yusuke Satoh
2013 Shiki tō Unkai for sop. saxophone and cello, commissioned by A-EN Project
2012 The Mousetrap, the Cat, and Me for orchestra, comissioned by Kunitachi College of Music Art Festival Orchestra
Artistic Directions
2020- Co-founder and director for SEED: Virtual Composition Academy
2018- Co-Director for Composers' Collective TESSELAT
2018 Music Director for FUTURE HOST: A Speech Opera (Beijing/Shanghai, China)
2017 Music Consultant for Babette's Feast (New York City, NY, USA)
Lectures on Composition
2019 Visiting Lecturer for Introduction to Western Contemporary Music, Otsuma Womens University, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Visiting Lecturer for Life After a Music Degree, Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Kawasaki, Japan
2018 Visiting Lecturer for Introduction to Western Contemporary Music, Otsuma Womens University, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Panel Discussion for Hyperobjects, Chronus Arts Center, Shanghai, China
2017 Special Lecturer for Introduction to Multimedia Arts, Xiamen University, China
2017 Visiting Lecturer for Composer Workshop Meeting, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
2016 Visitng Lecturer for De Japón A Puerto Rico, Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016 Teaching Assistant for Graduate Studio II/Graduate Studio IV, Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 Lecturer for Chatori Shimizu: Shiki to Unkai, Inner Fields, New York, NY
2015 Visiting Lecturer for Composition Seminar, Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, Japan
Portrait Concerts and Solo Exhibitions
2019 CCCP presents Chatori Shimizu, Ithaca, NY
2015 Chatori Shimizu: Shiki to Unkai, New York City, NY
2015 Percussion Works for Echo, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Spatiotemporal Composition Works, Tokyo, Japan
Interviews, Press & Publications
2021 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙：アカデミアから見た日本楽器, 雅楽だより第64号, 3~5頁 (Japanese)
2020 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu Talks About Music, Hearing China, Dec. 2020 (English)
2020 [Interview] Chatori Shimizu : for the love of shō, Elektramusic, Nov. 2020 (English)
2020 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu, Gamelan Composers Forum, Nov. 2020 (English)
2020 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu Combining Ancient and Contemporary, Sounds of the World Podcast, Oct. 2020 (English)
2020 [Feature] Devon Osamu Tipp and Chatori Shimizu, TAK Edition, Oct. 2020 (English)
2020 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙：自由即興とエキゾチックな表現, 雅楽だより第63号, 5-7頁 (Japanese)
2020 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu Presents His Album "O", Elektramusic, May 2020 (English)
2020 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙：「文化の盗用」を考える, 雅楽だより第62号, 1-4頁 (Japanese)
2020 [Feature] Listening to the Spaces In-Between, Inner Fields NYC, June 25, 2020 (English)
2020 [Feature] Selbstentdeckung braucht Mut, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, May 28, 2020 (German)
2020 [Feature] 6 plus 6 manières de créer en confinement, TV Play RTS, May 11, 2020 (French)
2020 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙：音響分析と創作, 雅楽だより第61号, 9-10頁 (Japanese)
2020 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙：笙と西洋五線譜, 雅楽だより第60号, 7-8頁 (Japanese)
2019 [Review] Bewegende Bekenntnismusik, Mehrlicht Dresden, Nov. 12, 2019 (German)
2019 [Feature] 作曲家・清水チャートリー, Carillon, Oct. 1 2019 (Japanese)
2019 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu, ศิลป์สโมสร (Thai PBS), July 2019 (Thai)
2019 [Review] 夜限定の科学イベントに行ってきた, Ritz-Germany.Net, June 18, 2019 (Japanese)
2019 [Feature] Aufträge und Erfolge für Kompositionsstudierende, HfM Carl Maria von Weber, April 18, 2019 (German)
2019 [Feature] 手書きの五線譜で世界魅了：作曲家清水チャートリー, 週刊NY生活2019年4月27日号 (Japanese)
2019 [Publication] 外国人が和楽器を学ぶための教習方法に対する考察（共著）/洗足論叢第47号 (Japanese)
2018 [Interview] Experimental Theatre Experience to Debut, China Daily, Sept. 8, 2018 (English)
2018 [Interview] Saturday Light Brigade Radio, January 13, 2018 (English)
2017 [Feature] 和楽器と日本伝統音楽の普及の一施策として/洗足論叢第46号 (Japanese)
2017 [Feature] Othello by Chatori Shimizu /RecordNewYork (English)
2017 [Interview] Au coeur de l'Université d'Altitude : le travail en répétition, MediaPart, July 15th, 2017 (English, French sub)
2017 [Publication] 現代音楽の中の笙, 雅楽だより第49号, 3~4頁 (Japanese)
2016 [Feature] Chatori Shimizu, Not Random Art Issue 03 July/August pg. 64-71 (English)
2016 [Feature] An Artist In Search of Sounds, Arts Culture Beat (English)
2015 [Feature] 米国コロンビア大学で雅楽と邦楽を学ぶ学生代表によるワークショップがありました /玉川の教育 (Japanese)
2015 [Feature] Somewhere Close, Amplitude (English)
2015 [Feature] Shinkaigyo, 60x60 Wave Farm Mix, Wave Farm 90.7-FM (English)
2015 [Feature] -SHIKAKU-, Everyday Listening (English)
