Kotoka Suzuki was born in Japan and is a composer focusing on both multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines. Her work conceives of sounds as a physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of composition.
Her work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Continuum, and Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany) at numerous venues and festivals such as Ultraschall, World Music Days, The Stone, ZKM Media Museum, and Music at the Anthology. Among the awards and fellowships she has received are DAAD Artist in Resident-Berlin (Germany), Bourges Multimedia Prize (France), MacDowell, Yaddo, Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts, Howard Foundation, and Musica Nova Competition Honor Prize (Czech Republic). Suzuki has served as a member of the composition faculty at the University of Chicago from 2004-2011 and is an associate composer at the Canadian Music Centre since 2001. Her works are published on Edition RZ, EMF Media, Signpost Music, and IMEB records.
