KOTOSTUDIO自由流家元
森 稚重子
３歳より箏・日本舞踊・ピアノ・書道を始める
日本舞踊花柳流名取
高校時代、部長兼指導者として箏曲部結成１年目に
県大会優勝、高文連箏曲部門の全国大会出場へ導く
第１回高校生国際音楽コンクール箏部門入賞
NHK邦楽技能者育成会 第４２期生卒業
慶應義塾大学 環境情報学部卒業
BENETTON アーティスト リサーチセンタ FABRICA
（ファブリカ）音楽部門に日本人初の招聘を受け
１９９９年春、大学卒業と同時にイタリア トレビゾヘ
世界中から集められたジャンルの異なる音楽家と共に
演奏を行う既存の箏の音概念を離れて独学にて独自の音色、奏法を開拓
２０００年以降ロンドン／イタリア／
ニューヨークを拠点にジョルジョ・アルマーニ氏ファッションEXPOの音楽作曲、
デビットベッカム邸 ワールドカップパーティでの演奏、
ベニスビエンナーレ２００１(イタリア）での演奏
ロンドンロイヤルフェスティバルホールでの演奏、
ロバートウィルソン氏の演劇音楽の作曲、米ハーバード大学でのワークショップ
国際交流基金主催ジャパンフェスティバルイギリス公演
インド横断コンサートツアー、等
海外での演奏活動は計１８ヶ国７０都市以上にて披露
２００７年以降Virpi Pahkinen Stockholm DanceCompany
コンテンポラリーダンスと箏のための作品を発表 ストックホルムにて新作の公演を行う
２００７年よりKOTO STUDIO自由流開講
箏奏者の育成と共に自らの創作活動に力を注ぐ
Master of KOTO STUDIO Jiyuu-Ryu Koto School
Chieko Mori starts to learn Japanese Instrument of Koto and Japanese Dance at the age of three.
After graduating from Keio University (Environment and Information Studies at SFC),
she was invited to FABRICA (Benetton artist research center) in Treviso, Italy for years,
where she had been exploring the sound by working with musicians of diverse backgrounds.
Whilst living in London after 2000, she had been workingwith Robert Wilson's
theater production, involving music composition for Venice Biennale 2001 and
Giorgio Armani exhibition with Michael Galasso (Composer-Violinist).
Composing music for choreographer Virpi Pahkinen Stockholm Dance company since 2007.
Chieko has fully mastered the techniques of classical Koto, adopted a fresh approach towards the Instrument,
suggesting new possibilities of playing as for improvising, recording and composition.
She has been playing for various festivals and concerts over 18 countries, more than 70 cities.
Her original method has been teaching on her school of “KOTO STUDIO” in Tokyo since 2007.
SOLO ALBUM
Jumping Rabbit (TZADIK 2005, recorded at The Hit Factory, N.Y.) Tzadik / disk union japan/ amazon japan
Katyou Fuugetsu (Felmay 2006, Torino) Felmay
COLLABORATION ALBUM
KOTOISTIC with Oliver Grimm (canto crudo, Austria 2016)
Unfinished Cities by Andre Van Rensburg
Biennale di Venezia 2001 youtube link
Zeru Grisak (Gray Skies) Giorgio Armani Guggenheim Exhibition Recording
play with Michael Galasso (N.Y. 2001)
COLLABORATION WITH *pick up
variations on chieko mori's tension of direction composed by Vinzenz Schwab (Austria 2012)
Voice from vocal box Kouichi Makigami voice and music project (FABRICA, Italy 2003)
Safar project, indian tour with twelve musicians and dancers (India 2002)
vocal and Koto session with Gregory Frateur ( FABRICA, Italy 2002)
improvised recording with Ray Sweeten (FABRICA, Italy 1999, N.Y. 2001)
workshop & performance with dancers at Harvard University (Boston, 2001)
COMPILATION ALBUM *track name
*Spiral Wave (Important Records 2014) amazon japan
*Spiral Wave/ *Tokyo Light from "The Garden of Forking Paths" Important Records 2010
Anime Hero Tales music director by Tamiya Terashima (Tokyo 2009)
*Irina's Dream from "EAST ASIA Travelogue" with Michael Galasso (violin)
(Union Square music London 2001) youtube link
*Bella Koto from "Japon" (fnac, Spain 2001)
THEATER/ DANCE
ICHOS dance and music tour with Virpi Pahkinen- Finland /Sweden April, 2016
SCARABE by Virpi Pahkinen - Finland 2012
Morpho Z by Virpi Pahkinen - Sweden 2008
Hex Triplet #9900FF by Virpi Pahkinen - Sweden 2007
DARK LADY by Katherin Gray - October Gallery, London 2003
QUARTET by Robert Wilson- collaboration with Michael Galasso, novel by Heiner Müller (2001)
Three Sisters by Robert Wilson- collaboration with Michael Galasso, Sweden 2001
FILM MUSIC*pick up
NUAGES - Film by Marion Hansel (2001)
SECRET BALLOT - Flim by Babak Payami (2001) youtube link
EXHIBITION *pick up
Giorgio Armani retrospective at Guggenheim museum
Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum New York youtube link
London, Tokyo, Bilbao,
music collaboration with Michael Galasso,
RADIO / TV *pick up
BBC Late Junction, Radio program London
SWR2 Musik der Welt, Radio program Berlin
J-WAVE Radio Sakamoto (Sakamoto Ryūichi), Tokyo
OTTAVA con brio, Radio program Tokyo
NHK Educational TV, Japan
FARSIDE Radio, London
