A native of Shizuoka Japan, MUKAI Hibiki is a music composer, pianist, and new media artist.
Mukai has composed for a variety of performing arts: contemporary dance, movies, and theatrical art, and he very frequently works in collaboration with other artistic performers and creators.
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 NHK (Tokyo), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Ukrainian Institute (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ukraine), Gaudeamus Music Week (Utrecht), Festival Musica (Strasbourg), CEAM (Moscow), Elektro Arts (Cluj-Napoca), Japan Federation of Composers Award, 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.

KITAZUME Hiromichi received his M.D. in composition from the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Conservatoire de Paris, and studied computer music composition at IRCAM. His works—being instrumental, orchestral, vocal, electroacoustic, or mixed—are composed using his musical research, mainly inspired by new technologies, and constructed in collaboration with numerous musicians and ensembles. They have been performed in several festivals and numerous concerts worldwide. Kitazume has also been active conducting wide range of repertoire from classical to contemporary work. With a background in teaching, he has instructed composition, music theory and computer music at esteemed institutions such as Tokyo University of the Arts, Toho Gakuen University, Kunitachi College of Music, and Hokkaido University of Education. He regularly organizes concerts and events as the Director of INTEG’Lab.

Her music is built on clear rhythms and a refined control of tone colors, which together create imaginative atmospheres, events, and situations. The sense of fun and playfulness is a central element of her music, because she believes that contemporary music is not difficult, but rather free.
After studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, she obtained her second Master’s degree in composition at Sibelius Academy with top grades, under the guidance of Veli-Matti PUUMALA.
Her music has been commissioned by ensembles, musicians, and festivals such as Time of Music, Musica nova Helsinki, Avanti! Summer Sounds, Tampere Biennale (Finland), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), IMPULS Festival für neue Musik Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Japan), and The Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ (Netherlands). Her piece “Mineralization” won the Teosto Prize 2025 and “Talking Metals, Talking Drums” was selected to the recommendation list of the 69th International Rostrum of Composers.
Currently, she teaches at Sibelius Academy.

Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music with a specialization in computer music, KANAHARA Naoya is currently enrolled in the Computer Music Course of the Composition Program at the graduate school. He engages in cross-disciplinary activities ranging from jazz performance to research and creation in the spectral music tradition, as well as audio engineering, and has been involved in performances of live electronics works such as Pierre BOULEZ’s “Répons” and Kaija SAARIAHO’s “NoaNoa.” Kanahara also creates live electronics and fixed media works, primarily drawing on spectral music and jazz. He was dispatched to IRCAM as an audio engineer through the “Music Creator Development Project: Tokyo & Paris to the NEXT.” He studied computer music under IMAI Shintaro, audio engineering under KATAGIRI Takenori, composition under SHIMIZU Shohei, and jazz piano under SHIONOYA Satoru.