Kotoka Suzuki / 鈴木琴香 is a composer focusing on both instrumental and multimedia practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines. Her work reflects on life, breath and wind and often conceives of sounds as a physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of composition. Her work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, eighth blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, and Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany), at numerous venues and broadcasts such as Deutschland Radio, BBC Radio3, Ultraschall, ISCM World Music Days, The Stone, ZKM Media Museum, Royal College of Music (Sweden), and Music at the Anthology. Among the awards she has received include DAAD Berlin Artists in Residence Program, Global Music Awards Gold Medal, Fleck Fellowship from Banff Centre, New Music USA, Bourges First Prize in Multimedia, International Electro-Acoustic Musica Nova Competition First Prize, George A and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, and Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts. She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Djerassi, Ucross and Center for Arts and Media (ZKM). She taught at the University of Chicago and Arizona State University and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough with a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Music. Her work is published on Starkland, Edition RZ, Edition DEGEM, EMF Media, and IMEB records. She is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001.

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