HIBIKI MUKAI

Biography

A native of Shizuoka Japan, HIBIKI MUKAI (b.1993) is a music composer, pianist, and new media artist.

He has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Lawson-May Award (UK), 1st Prize at the 6th Matan Givol International Composers Competition in Tel Aviv, "Marin Goleminov" International Composition Prize in Sofia, Festival Musica Academy’s prize 2018 in Strasbourg, 1st Prize at the ORDA-2019 Composition Competition in Amsterdam, 1st Prize at the 84th Music Competition of Japan, the Iwatani Prize, the Meiji Yasuda Prize, the Miyoshi Prize and 1st Prize at the 33rd ACL Young Composers Competition in Manila, and the Diploma Prize at the 8th International Jurgenson competition in Moscow.

His works have been commissioned and selected by the Ukrainian Institute (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ukraine), Gaudeamus Music Week [Utrecht], Festival Musica [Strasbourg], Venice Biennale Musica [Venice], ManiFeste [Paris], Elektro Arts [Cluj- Napoca], Jurgenson Competition (Moscow), Japan Federation of Composers Award [Tokyo], EMW [Shanghai], NYCEMF [New York], and ICMC [Shanghai, Daegu]. To date, he has been awarded scholarships by the Rohm Music Foundation, the Kakehashi Foundation, the Yamaha Music Foundation, and the Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.

In addition to these accolades, Hibiki received his Bachelor’s degree from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo in 2016, and completed his Master of Music degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague in 2019. He has studied composition with Midori Okubo, Shirotomo Aizawa, Masahiro Ishijima Takayuki Rai, Richard Barrett, and Wim Hendrickx. Hibiki is currently based in Porto, Portugal and the Hague, the Netherlands to pursuing a PhD degree in digital media at the University of Porto (FEUP) as the fellow from the Agency for cultural affairs, Government of Japan.

Hibiki Mukai's works are published by Edition ONGAKU NO TOMO (Tokyo, Japan) and will be published by Edition Tre Fontane (Münster, Germany) and Éditions Durand (Paris, France) in 2023.