未知瑠 -MICHIRU-/Composer
MICHIRU: Composer;
She was born in Japan in 1980. She started playing the piano at an early age by first echoing natural sounds and chirping birds.
She enrolled at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where she majored in musical composition. She initially studied the fundamentals of classical music; but her interest was not exclusively encompassed to this genre. Michiru later began to look into various other genres of music, like pop-music, electronic-music, folk-music, Jazz, rock, and contemporary music. They were endlessly interesting to her mind as she progressively began to change and improve her capability of expression.
She graduated at the top of her class, and her first orchestral work “Music for orchestra” was performed in 2004. She proceeded to continue her studies by entering the Graduate School of the University. In 2005, one of her works “Six Turkish Folk Music” was performed by “Ensemble NOMAD” , a foremost authority of contemporary music in Japan.
In 2006,she took her master's degree in composition and later went on to organize her first concert “From Ear To Ear vol.1”. The concert was held in a unique way in that she created surround-sound space by using many speakers and darkened the hall to enhance the surround-sound effect. She produced the concert and performed her own works.
From 2007, she has been working as a composer and her activities have grown to encompass every category of music.
In 2009, She composed and managed the music for “Lulie the Iceberg“ at Y150 -the Exposition Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama.
In 2010,she released her debut album "World's End Village" which goes to on sale all over the world. Prior to the launch of it, she released in Japan, on December 5th, 2009.
In this album, she made mainly vocal pieces inspired from various female voices, they notably display her originality.
Forward she continues to make works across borders of genre with various artists. She is expected to have worldwide creation.
2004年、同大学を首席にて卒業。初のオーケストラ作品 『Musicfor orchestra 2004』が初演される。
2005年には「アンサンブルNOMAD」により『トルコ民族音楽による6つの小品 for Ensemble NOMAD』を発表。
2006年、同大学院を修了。5.1chサラウンドシステムを用いた作品『Music Concertante -for string quartet and surround sounds』を発表。
2007年以降、多様なジャンルへ創作活動を広げている。 2009年には、横浜開港博Y150に於いてパビリオン『氷山ルリの大航海』音楽を担当。
2010年、ソロアーティスト『Michiru』として1stアルバムを、スウェーデンのFluttery Recordsよりヨーロッパ,アメリカ圏でリリースする。
それに伴い、日本での先行リリースが決定。
2009年12月5日、未知瑠1st アルアム『Worls’s End Village –世界の果ての村-』発売。
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We are happy to tell you that one of the tracks was selected for airplay in the latest edition of the programme. You can listen to the programme here: www.talentcast.nl/listen.php. Till Wednesday 23.00 CET, your fans who have MySpace accounts (the accounts must be at least 7 days old) can vote for your track so that it has a chance to become our next Song of the Week!
Dear Michiru, we thought you might be happy to hear that the release of your album with Julia Marcell has been promoted in our weekly radio show that features unsigned and independent artists. We have also played a track from Julia's SellaBand album. The programme can be listened to here: www.talentcast.nl/listen.php. In case you might like to take part in the weekly voting for the Song of the Week, there is info about it here: www.talentcast.nl/faq.php.
We hope you will enjoy the programme and wish you a nice week!
hello to good music, I really like it, so thanks for giving me your friendship on myspace so you can hear your composisiones performances, thanks for the add.
salutation du soleil de la mer des Caraibes , recois son energie et sa lumiere , tu va bien ? je l espere de tout coeur , soit forte pour le future , levy
Thanks for the wonderful message. I lived in Kanagawa from 2001-2004 when I was stationed with the US Army Band at Camp Zama (near Sobodai Mai). Some of the best times I have ever had were in Japan. Best wishes,