Mihoko Suzuki

A native of Japan, Mihoko Suzuki has lived in New York City since 1993, composed a diverse range of multidisciplinary works including: “Litany for the Animals”—a multimedia opera/oratorio with staging by Jil Guyon; “This World”—a song-cycle with text/sound design by Timothy Cramer; “To the Dogs”—a visual-auditory ritual with art installation by Sue Coe based on a 125-minute sound recording of 33 death row dogs at NYC’s animal-control system; “Sideshows by the Seashore”—a ballet with choreography by James Sutton (the winner of the Columbia Artists-National Choreography Competition) commissioned & premiered by NY Theatre Ballet.

In 2010, Mihoko Suzuki created a dance/music film with cinematographer Valerie Barnes “Jessica Finds Her Way”—starring Jessica Saund, a soloist from American Ballet Theatre. The film was featured at Les Instants Vidéo festival in Marseille and has been exhibited at SOHO Gallery For Digital Art, NYC. In 2011, Suzuki’s musical setting of Alice Walker’s poem “We Have a Beautiful Mother” was performed by Musica Sacra at the memorial ceremony of Wangari Maathai—the Kenyan environmentalist Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC. In 2013, Suzuki was awarded an Artists’ Fellowship by New York Foundation for the Arts in the category of music/sound for her chamber ensemble work “Bhavacakra”. In May this year, Suzuki’s piano 4 hands “Ode to Number 14” was given a premiere performance by the piano duo SaNa ToMa in Edmonton, Canada, also scheduled to be performed in Kushiro, Japan and New York City later this year. Mihoko began her musical training at the age of five, studied piano at the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo and composition at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree.

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