Composer · Composer and pianist
Minako Tokuyama
Biography
Minako Tokuyama is a Japanese composer and pianist. She studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts, working with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro and Isang Yun.
Her catalogue encompasses piano, orchestral, choral and instrumental music. Memento Mori received first prize in the Vienna International Composition Competition, and Musica Nara was commissioned for the 2006 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. Japanese musical traditions and her experience as a pianist inform her compositional work.