Kai Kobayashi
Composer | Pianist
Kai Kobayashi (b. 1991, Tokyo) is a Berlin-based composer, began playing the piano at the age of six. She has been invited to more than 150 concerts so far, including as a soloist with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra. At the age of 18 she began to learn composition theory.
She completed her bachelor’s degree at Tokyo College of Music in 2016 and began her master’s degree there under Shin-ichirō Ikebe, Michio Kitazume, Tomiko Kōhjiba and Keiko Harada. In 2017, after completing her second master’s semester in Tokyo, she changed to Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden and completed her master’s degree with Franz Martin Olbrisch, Manos Tsangaris and Mark Andre. She also studied at University of Arts Berlin, focusing experimental music theater with Daniel Ott.
Her artistic engagement with social issues, with which she has been involved since the beginning of her career as a composer, has continued recently in new forms of experimental music theater.
Her works have been performed by various ensembles, including the MDR Symphony Orchestra (broadcast on Deutschlandfunk), the Symphoniker Hamburg, Ensemble El Perro Andaluz, Ensemble LUX: NM, Ensemble KNM, and project ensemble morph.
Currently she is a postgraduate student (Konzertexamen) at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying with Gordon Kampe.
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