Member Profile: Aine Nakamura
Composer, Performer
Short Bio
Aine E. Nakamura is a singer, performer and composer. She creates her idiosyncratic transborder art of voice and body. Her recent solo performances include a Winning Work for Site-Specific Performance at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and her performance project at Berliner Festspiele's 2022 Theatertreffen in Berlin. She has presented her solo exhibition at The Gallatin Galleries NY, her mixed art, performances and compositions at Berlin University of the Arts (2023), The LAB in SF (2022), HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin (2022), Errant Sound (2022), A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsky (2019), Dias de Música Electroacústica (2019), NYCEMF performed with cellist Madeleine Shapiro (2018), October New Music Festival in Finland performed with MikroEnsemblen (2018), and Abrons Arts Center with the International Contemporary Ensemble (2019).
Nakamura is an Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (Berlin, Germany 2021-’22), The Leo Bronstein Homage Award, and The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.
She has given workshops and lectures at Berliner Festspiele, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Pittsburgh, and McGill Schulich School of Music. In addition to her artistic pursuit, Nakamura studied orality in ritualistic songs by women and villagers in Okinawa and Yaeyama supported by NYU Asian Pacific and American Institute, and peace politics and poetics at New York Public Library as its Short-Term Research Fellow (2022-’23).