Nina Fukuoka is a Japanese and Polish composer and performer based in New York City. She makes instrumental and computer music and uses various media and technologies to express extramusical meaning. Her works are focused on the contemporary world through the lens of horror esthetics, video games, and feminist scholarships.
Nina's works have been premiered at numerous festivals and venues in Europe, North America, and Japan; including Musica Privata festival in Lodz, Poland; De Munt/La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium; Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Musica Polonica Nova festival in Wroclaw, Poland; Kody/Codes festival in Lublin, Poland; Either/Or Spring Festival; and have been performed by ensembles including the Arthur Rubinstein Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Koninklijke Muziekkapel De Gidsen, Wroclaw Improvising Orchestra, Orkest de ereprijs, Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Adapter, Ekmeles, Distractfold, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, and Talea Ensemble.
In recent years, Nina’s works have been featured at the Klangwerkstatt festival in Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum in Krakow, and musikprotokoll in Graz. She received a commission for a new piece from the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, performed in August 2023. In May 2024, she was invited for a residency with K!ART Ensemble in Copenhagen, Denmark, which concluded with a portrait concert. Currently, she is working on a piece for a large ensemble commissioned by the National Polish Radio Orchestra in Katowice, Poland.
Nina completed her composition and music theory studies at the Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. She is pursuing a doctorate in Music Composition at Columbia University in New York, where she studies with Georg Friedrich Haas, Annie Gosfield, Brad Garton, and George Lewis.
Her works inhabit a number of contemporary and experimental settings, such as video scores and performance pieces with multimedia and live electronics, as well as orchestra and ensemble works. By maintaining collaborations with musicians, dancers, and film artists, Nina continues to explore new possibilities for multi-disciplinary art.
