Malika Kishino

Malika Kishino is one of those composers who quietly commands serious respect in circles that know what they're talking about. Born in Kyoto in 1971, she studied law at Doshisha before pivoting hard to music — which is a wild and fascinating move that tells you everything about how driven she must be. She ended up in France, trained at IRCAM in Paris (the place for serious contemporary music research), then settled in Cologne, and her work has been performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Oslo Sinfonietta, Ensemble Musikfabrik — real heavy hitters. She weaves in electronics and Japanese instruments like the koto without leaning on cliché. She won the NHK Symphony Orchestra's 69th Otaka Prize and a 2024 fellowship at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome — just the music doing the talking.

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Malika Kishino is a Japanese composer born on July 16, 1971, in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. She studied at Doshisha University and has pursued a career in composition. She maintains an official website at malika-kishino.com. After studies in France at the École Normale de Musique, the Lyon Conservatoire and IRCAM, she moved to Cologne in 2006, and she won the NHK Symphony Orchestra's 69th Otaka Prize.

Name (English)

Malika Kishino

Name (Japanese)

岸野末利加

Reading

きしの まりか

Born

July 16, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

University

Doshisha University

Awards & achievements

• Otaka Prize — year unknown
• Rome Prize, German Academy Villa Massimo (2024)

• Official sitehttps://www.malika-kishino.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E9%87%8E%E6%9C%AB%E5%88%A9%E5%8A%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1667758

Tags

• From Kyoto Prefecture
• Composer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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