Born in Tokyo; Hiromi Ishii is a composer of electroacoustic music. She studied composition with Tsuneya Tanabe at Musashino Music College and, after her master’s degree, taught music theory, instrumentation and music history at a junior college and a technical school for sound engineering. From 1998 she took postgraduate studies in electronic music with Wilfried Jentzsch at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden, followed from 2001 to 2006 by a doctorate with Simon Emmerson at City University London with a thesis on electroacoustic music related to traditional Japanese music. She has been invited as a guest composer to the CYNETart festival, the International Symposium of the Folkwang-Hochschule, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival and, in 2006, the ZKM, among others; her music has been presented by the Sonic Arts Network and broadcast by the WDR, MDR, Radio Berlin and Radio Antwerp. In the Cybele catalogue she appears on DEGEM Vol. 5 – Imaginary Landscapes (2000) with “Dreaming Stones” (1999), based on the sounds of sanukite stones from the island of Shikoku, and on the audiobook Mirjam Wiesemann: Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).
Hiromi Ishii
Composer
