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作曲家
1998年生まれ、宮城県仙台市出身。
東京藝術大学音楽学部作曲科卒業。
市川市文化振興財団第4回即興オーディションにて優秀賞受賞。東京交響楽団＆サントリーホール「新曲チャレンジ・プロジェクト2023」にて作品採用、2023年12月東京交響楽団により初演。2024年2月、石川県立音楽堂 和洋の響Ⅳにて「加賀・金沢〜記憶の彼方へ 箏とオーケストラのための」が優秀作品として採用、オーケストラ・アンサンブル金沢により初演される。
2024年5月、群馬交響楽団第598回定期演奏会にて委嘱作品「UTAGE～宴～」世界初演。同年8月に吹奏楽版が第30回浜松国際管楽器アカデミー＆フェスティヴァル、フェスタサマーミューザKAWASAKI2024にて世界初演。2024年9月、山形交響楽団第319回定期演奏会にて委嘱作品「KODAMA～谺～」世界初演。
作曲を八島秀、小島佳男、森垣桂一、安良岡章夫、ピアノを下村郁子、庄子みどり、森田英里奈、即興演奏を平野公崇の各氏に師事。ソロ、オーケストラ、箏・尺八・笙や囃子にいたる邦楽器までさまざまな編成で作編曲を手がけ、邦楽トリオ〝吹鳴〟の一員としてはピアノ演奏も行う。
Natsumi Yamamoto was born in 1998 in the city of Sendai. After studying at Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Daini High School she entered the Tokyo University of the Arts, graduating from the Department of Composition in the university’s Faculty of Music.
She was awarded the Prize for Excellence in the 4th Improvisation Auditions sponsored by the Ichikawa City Culture Promotion Foundation.
Works by her were selected for inclusion in the New Composition Project 2023 sponsored by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Suntory Hall and in the Wayo no Hibiki IV series of concerts of Japanese and Western music presented in 2023 at the Ishikawa Ongakudo hall in the city of Ishikawa.
Her work UTAGE was commissioned by the Gunma Symphony Orchestra and received its première in May 2024 . This was followed by the first performance of her arrangement for wind ensemble of this same work in August 2024 made in response to a commission received jointly from the 30th Hamamatsu International Wind Academy and Festival and Keitaro Harada. Her subsequent work KODAMA was commissioned by the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra and received its world première in September 2024.
Natsumi Yamamoto studied composition with Shu Yashima, Yoshio Kojima, Keiichi Morigaki and Akio Yasuraoka, piano with Ikuko Shimomura, Midori Shoji and Erina Morita, and improvisation with Masataka Hirano. She has composed and arranged for a wide range of instruments and ensembles including solo instruments, orchestra and Japanese traditional instruments such as the koto, the shakuhachi, the shō and the hayashi ensemble. She also plays the piano in the Japanese traditional instrumental trio SUIMEI.
