Michiko Ogawa

Michiko Ogawa is a performer-composer specializing in the clarinet, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She performs not only classical repertoire but also contemporary and experimental music, including free improvisation and film soundtrack work. She is also working with the Hammond organ and “shō”, a Japanese bamboo organ.

She also has been collaborating with musicians like Sam Dunscombe, Taku Sugimoto, James Rushford, Carolyn Chen, Manuel Lima, Lucy Railton, Ellen Arkbro, Crys Cole, Oren Ambarchi, Werner Durand, Jonny Chang and Klaus Lang. She also frequently collaborates with visual artists, such as Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre and Sabina Maselli. She is one of the core members of the collectively oriented Harmonic Space Orchestra in Berlin since 2019.

As a researcher, she has been researching Teiji Ito, a Japanese-American performer and composer based in New York City, since 2015, and received a DMA for the dissertation focusing on Teiji Ito’s film music. She is currently working on his biography. She is currently based in Berlin and Southern California.