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Spotlighting Zen-On's Women Composers

Mar. 30, 2025

In honor of Women's History Month, Japanese publisher Zen-On celebrated the exceptional female composers on their roster by highlighting their compositions, from solo works to large-scale orchestral compositions, chamber works, pedagogical collections, and more. Featured composers include women from a variety of generations and musical styles including: Céleri Haruhata, Kae Hirakawa, Hitomi Kaneko, Tomiko Kohjiba, Masa Matsuura, Chihiro Todoroki, Maki Ueda, Chikako Yamanaka.

To learn more about these composers and explore their works, visit zen-on.co.jp and listen to a selection of their works below.


Akira Naito and Kanade Tsurusawa perform Céleri Haruhata's Astro Notes - Letters from Space


Eri Takimura and Kae Hirakawa perform Hirakawa's Sakura-Sakura Variations


Kousei Murata and Toshio Nakagawa perform Hitomi Kaneko's The Layers of Time V


Kei Yamazawa performs Castle of Duino by Tomiko Kohjiba


Masa Matsuura and Sumichika Arimura perform Matsuura's Dreaming Stone


Yoshie and Takahashi of Pianoduo DUOR perform Chihiro Todoroki's Consonance

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