Education
Omura studied with Isao Matsushita, Kenjirō Urata and Jo Kondo at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She further studied electronic music at IRCAM in Paris and Intermedia Art (master"s degree) with Kiyoshi Furukawa in Tokyo.
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Career
Then he took music composition with Professor Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Her music has been performed in Japan, of Korea, United States of America and Europe (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Musica Viva in Germany, Festival AGORA, Festival Acanthe in France, Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, Emufest in Italy, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik in Austria and Music From Japan in New York) by such orchestras and ensembles as the New Japan Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik, Ensemble recherche, Ensenble resonanz and Nieuw Ensemble.
Between 2006 and 2010, she was a guest artist at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in 2010-2011, she was a composer in residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn.
1994: Irino Prize in Japan
1998: Gaudeamus International Composers Award in the Netherlands
1999: Prize by Biennale Neue Musik Hannover
2000: Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler
2000: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Yoshiro IRINO Memorial Prize by Asian Music Festival
2004: Takefu Composition Award in Japan
2005: Composition Prize for young composer by Japan Society for Contemporary Music
2012: Supporting prize by Giga-Hertz-Preis by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) and Experimentalstudio des SWR.
