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TANAKA, Karen

Karen Tanaka
Photograph of Karen Tanaka courtesy of the photographer, Murasakinoue2000,

Born in Tokyo, Japan, April 7, 1961 

  • Tanaka studied at the Tōhō Gakuen School of Music, Toyko, where her teachers included Akira Miyoshi. She studied subsequently in France and in Florence, where her teachers included Luciano Berio.1
  • Karen Tanaka currently teaches Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.2

Composer profile from her publisher, Wise Music Classical 

Sources

  1. Stephen Montague, “Tanaka, Karen,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 15, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000048591.
  2. “Faculty: Karen Tanaka,” CalArts, accessed November 15, 2021, https://music.calarts.edu/programs-specializations/composition-and-experimental-sound-practices/faculty/karen-tanaka.

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