UPCOMING SHOWS & PUBLICATIONS

Selected Archives

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Selected Publications

• - Album "Flora" (Compact Disc) - Original choral works for female voices featuring Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, Sara Serpa, Monika Heidemann, Jen Shyu, and Nina Riley (Tzadik Records/Catalog# TZADIK 8098)
• - Essay "Communal Symmetries in Ancient Music" in "ARCANA Vll" (Tzadik Records/Hips Road, Inc./Catalog# TZADIK/ B008)
• - Sound Track for film「Water Is Life」(California Academy of Sciences/ UVphactory)
• - Sound Track for film「Cherry Bloom」by Alexandre Moors (Uvphactory/Aiko Films)
• - Sound Track for film「Ode to Iceberg」by Zaria Forman (Winston Wachter Fine Art)
• - Sound Track for「Overview」Installation by Zaria Forman (Winston Wachter Fine Art)

Selected Honors and Residencies

• - Cleveland Museum of Art "Cleveland Creative Fusion" Commission and Residency
• - The Japan Foundation: Performing Arts Japan 2015-2016 Awardee
• - Milano Salone Design Award "Wonderglass" BEST SOUND 2015 Awardee
• - Best of 2013: Choral Recording of The Year 1st Prize Awardee (Alto Riot)
• - Best of 2013: Track of The Year Nomination Awardee (Alto Riot)
• - Contemporanea Japan 2011 Awardee (Taukai Edizioni Musicali)
• - The International Alliance of Women in Music PatsyLu Prize 2010 1st Prize Awardee
• - Electronic Music Foundation Residency (2009-2012) Composer in Residence and Research Fellow
• - Essentially Choral 2007 Awardee (VocalEssence – American Composers Forum)
• - The Stone (NY, NY) Artist In Residence
• - Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Award 2000 Awardee

Selected Activities

Aya Nishina

• TBA New work commissioned by The Cleveland Museum of Art (Upcoming)
• TBA New work co-commissioned by Lincoln Center David Rubenstein Atrium and The Cleveland Museum of Art (Upcoming)
• 2019 Nao Tamura "Sunshower" Exhibition (for Design Amazing by LEXUS) at Design Miami (FL, USA)｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design
• 2019 Zaria Forman "Overview" Exhibition｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design (NY, USA) Re-screened: NYC High Line, Expo Chicago, Winston Wächter Fine Art (New York) among others.
• 2019 "The Sky of Kugui" commissioned by Ryuichi Sakamoto for Tohoku Youth Orchestra (Tokyo, Japan)
• 2018 Zaria Forman Solo Exhibition at Winston Wächter Fine Art｜Spatial Sonic Design (NY)
• 2017 Zaria Forman "Ode to Iceberg" Exhibition｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design (WA)
• 2017 Musical theater "Ongaku Bus" commissioned and composed in collaboration with "NPO Dreams of Muse" for their 15th anniversary of the organization
• 2016 "Ten Thousand Leaves" Project (Winner of "Performing Arts Japan by Japan Foundation) with singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Becca Stevens [Visual：Shimpei Takeda, Set Design: Clouds Architecture Office、Hosted by The Jazz Gallery]｜Curation + Score + Performance
  (Made possible by: The Japan Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, Consulate General of Japan, YAMAHA, The Jazz Gallery, MSTERIO, Car of Tomorrow, Wasara, 911 Circle Wind Concert, Recording Studio Soniqs, etc)
• 2015 Awarded "Performing Arts Japan 2015-2016" by The Japan Foundation
• 2015 Original Sound Art/Design for Wonderglass "Momento" Exhibition Awarded "BEST SOUND" at the Milano Design Award｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design
• 2015 "DNA ｜Venice" for Wonderglass, Inc., Directed by Davide Calafa /Art Direction by POMO｜Soundtrack
• 2014 Essay "Communal Symmetry in Ancient Music" published as part of "Arcana Vll" published by Hips Road, Inc. (Catalog# B008)
• 2014 Wonderglass "Morphing" Installation (Designed by Nao Tamura) at Milano Salone｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design
• 2014 Nao Tamura "Interconnection" Installation (Designed by Nao Tamura for LEXUS Design: Amazing In Motion) at Milano Salone｜Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design
• 2013 Original Album "Flora" published by Tzadik Records (Catalog# TZADIK8098)
  Collaborators: Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, Sara Serpa, Jen Shyu, Monika Heidemann, Nina Riley (Recorded by Fernando Aponte and Rick Kwan, Mixed by Fernando Aponte and Aya Nishina, Mastered by Andreas Meyer, Additional Mastering by Scott Hull (Masterdisk), Produced by Aya Nishina, Kazunori Sugiyama (Associate Producer), John Zorn (Executive Producer)]
• 2012 "Ryuichi Sakamoto Presents The Stone" a series of live duo performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Stone, NY)
• 2011 Curated "Flock of Birds", a series of charitable concerts for children in the affected areas of 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
• 2011 Curated "Concepts for Japan -NY artists' efforts for 3.11 disaster relief"
• 2011 Founded "Save Japan Benefits" (a charitable organization of artists, designers, and curators to research and bring disaster relief efforts to the affected areas of 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami)
• 2011 Premiere of "Nozomi" at NYC 3.11 Benefit Charitable Concert series｜ Score
• 2009-2012 Residency (Composer in residence 2009-2012; Research Fellow 2010-2012) at Electronic Music Foundation (NY, NY)
• 2010 "Water Homage" Awarded 1st Prize of PatsyLu Prize by the International Alliance of Women in Music｜ Score + Production
• 2009 Composed the alma mater of "NPO Dreams of Muse" commissioned and composed in collaboration with the students of the organization｜ Score
• 2008「Permanent Exhibition at California Academy of Sciences Steinhart Aquarium｜ Musical Direction, Composition, and Production of Spatial Sonic Design
• 2007 "Cardene I.V." Promotion/Commercial｜Score + Sound Design
• 2007 Choral work "Sleeping in Dew" Awarded "Essentially Choral" by VocalEssence/American Composers Forum｜ Score
• 2006 Film "Cheery Bloom" by director Alexandre Moors｜Score + Production + Sound Design
• 2006 Residency at NY performance venue "The Stone" (Co-curated with Mike Patton) (NY, NY)｜Curation + Performance
• 2005 Graduated Manhattan School of Music (Music Composition, BM)
• 2004(-2014) Participated at various live improvisation concerts (piano and electric) with Tzadik family (John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Cyro Baptista, Lukas Ligeti, Thierry Gomar, among others)
• 2003 Premiere of orchestral work "Early May" commissioned and performed by"Concertpeace" endorsed by UNICEF Canada and Canadian Opera Company｜ Score
• 2001 Signed with Tzadik Records
• 2001 Entered Manhattan School of Music as a merit scholarship recipient (NYC, NY)
• 2001 Graduated Interlochen Arts Academy with Honors (Diploma in Music Composition)
• 2000 Received "Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Award"
• 1998 Entered Interlochen Arts Academy
• 1998 Premiere of piano solo work "Transient and Frail Things" by Steven Osborne

Teaching

• - 2009-2011 City College of New York Music Department｜Private Instructor
• [Subject areas: Music Composition, Music Theory, Ear Training]
• - 2016-2019 International Liberal Arts College at Yamanashi Gakuin University｜Lecturer
• [Subject areas: Music Composition, Music Theory, Ethnomusicology (Japanese music), Choral Ensemble, Keyboard Skills, and Environmental Studies of Sonic Art]
• - 2018 Cleveland Institute of Music｜Guest Lecturer
• [#Music of "Flora" and its relation to Japanese Traditional Music]
• - 2019-Present NPO Dream of Muse｜Artistic Director, Lecturer for Ensemble Studies
• - 2022-Present Miyagi Gakuin Women's University ｜Lecturer
• [Subject areas: Music Composition; Music Theory; Musicology; Educational Research and Practice]
• *Language for teaching in academic research: Japanese and English

On Air

Selected Programs:

• TV Asahi "Untitled Concert" (題名のない音楽会) (May 11, 2019)
• ideastram.org "Cleveland Museum of Art Plays Muse to International Composers" (August 28, 2018)
• WNYC Living Music, Living Composers (September 16, 2015)
• WNYC New Sounds by John Schaefer: "Female Voices" April 15, 2014 (Re-aired: November 11, 2015)
• WQXR "Her Music" Q2 Music's 24-Hour Celebration of Emerging Female Composers (2014)

プロフィール・略歴

仁科 彩（にしな あや）

研究領域：作曲、音楽教育学（音楽教育のユニバーサルデザイン）

仙台出身。現在、米クリーブランド美術館招聘作家、米リンカーンセンター委嘱作家、WHITE HOUSE SHINJUKU アーティスト・イン・レジデンス。日本と北米に拠点を持ち、芸術機関・プロダクション等より委嘱を受け、作曲また空間音響デザインに従事。米国作曲家協会（ASCAP）会員。国際女性作曲家連盟会員。故郷である仙台では、認定特定非営利活動法人「ミューズの夢」にて理事・芸術監督として指導に携わり、宮城学院女子大学にて後進の育成に従事している。

幼少期より家族とともに北米と日本を行き来して育ったのち、宮城県教育大学附属中学校卒業後、Interlochen Arts Academy作曲専攻に特待奨学生として入学。単身渡米。在学中に、Neil Rabaut Memorial 作曲賞を受賞し、同学作曲科首席卒業。その後、同年マンハッタン音楽院よりメリットスカラシップを受け入学。2001年にニューヨーク市へ移住。同年、レコードレーベル「Tzadik」(ツァディック)よりオファーを受け、出版契約。大学卒業後、Electronic Music Foundation (以下、EMF) にコンポーザー・イン・レジデンス(2009-2012)及びリサーチ・フェロー(2010-2012)として在籍し、３年間EMF代表であるJoel Chadabe氏のもとで電子音楽及びフィールドレコーディングを学ぶ。

その後、十数年に渡り、Uvphactory社をはじめとするニューヨークのトッププロダクションと契約し作曲・空間音響デザインを担当。カリフォルニア科学アカデミー (California Academy of Sciences) 常設映画・空間音響制作、「Lexus Design Amazing："Sunshower"」 (デザイン・マイアミ)、「Lexus Design Amazing: "Interconnection"」 (ミラノ・サローネ)、の音響制作を手がける。2015年に音響制作・プロデュースを手がけた「Wonderglass」(空間デザイン・田村奈穂氏)はミラノ・デザイン・アワードにおいて日本人による作品として初の「Best Sound」を受賞した。

2013年、女声合唱曲を収録したオリジナルアルバム「Flora (フロラ)」がTzadik社、2014年に共著「Communal Symmetry of Ancient Music（古代の音楽にみるシメトリー)」が同社の「ARCANA VII」シリーズより出版される。それらの作品は、国際交流基金「パフォーミング・アーツ・ジャパン」、国際女性音楽家協会、VocalEssence (米国作曲家フォーラム)、Contemporanea Japan、Milano Design Award、Alto Riot社「Best Choral Recording of The Year」、Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Award 等より表彰を受け、米国国営ラジオ等にて特集が組まれる。以来、John Zorn、坂本龍一、田村奈穂、Alexandre Moors、Cyro Baptista、Zaria Forman をはじめ、国際的に活躍するアーティスト、デザイナー、映画監督等より委嘱を受け、共演・共同制作を重ねる。

現在は、複数の委嘱作品に取り組むなか、エレクトロ・アコースティック作品をまとめたアルバムを制作中。

制作活動を続ける傍ら、これまで、ニューヨーク市立大学音楽学部、クリーブランド音楽院作曲学科、山梨学院大学国際リベラルアーツ学部、宮城学院女子大学学芸学部音楽科、他、にて教鞭を執る (担当講義科目：作曲法、編曲法、和声法、指導法研究 (音楽教育のユニバーサルデザイン)、音楽環境創造、他)。

これまでに、作曲を、八島秀、Julia Wolfe、西村朗、Giampaolo Bracali、Nils Vigeland、John Boyle、の各氏に師事。電子音楽及びフィールドレコーディングを Joel Chadabe 氏 (Electronic Music Foundation) に、指揮法を John Stanley Ross、David Gilbert、の各氏に師事。ピアノを、コッホ・中村幸子、Yoshikazu Nagai、仁科篤子、の各氏に、インド古典音楽をAmit Roy、東北民謡を橋本和子、の各氏に師事。

インスタレーション・音響 担当作品 (抜粋)