Kumiko Yabu
Percussionist / Composer
Born in Osaka, JAPAN, currently living in Kyoto. 
She studied sound engineering for theatre at Obirin University (BA in Performing Arts). In 2008, she studied collaborative composition for Gamelan (MA in Community Music) at the University of York, UK with a grant from Japan cultural affairs. Also she studied Gamelan at Indonesian National University of Arts (ISI Yogyakarta) on scholarship programme by Indonesian government (DARMASISWA) for a year.
In 2014, She started a Creative Gamelan Group called "Sekar Gendis" based in Kyoto.
Composition works to date have included music for performing arts such as ”The Night of the milky way train” (Kenji Miyazawa / Oriza Hirata), “L’invention de la parole”(Didier Galas). And she began a collaborative project called “UKINEMOYOU” with Yuko Kanamori since 2016.

As a percussionist/ Improviser, she has played in various international festivals such as Ergodos Festival (Ireland), Kontraste Festival (Austria), Aichi Triennale 2010 (Japan) ,Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival 2011 (Indonesia) , Segni Young Generation Festival 2016 (Italy) etc.

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