Born in 1988 in Osaka, composer and performer. She graduated from Zygmunt Krauze’s class at the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź and studied with Peter Swinnen at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. In 2025 she became a Doctor in Musical Arts at the Faculty of Composition, Columbia University of New York, where she studied under Georg Friedrich Haas, Annie Gosfield, Brad Garton, and George Lewis.
She participated in numerous masterclasses in contemporary music, notably the Impuls Academy in Graz (2015), Synthetis in Radziejowice (2016), International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt (2016 and 2018), Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn (2017), and Champdaction LAbO in Antwerp (2018). She also studied with the ICTUS ensemble, in cooperation with the University of Ghent and the P.A.R.T.S modern dance school in Brussels.
Her works have been performed notably by the Łódź Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Koninklijke Muziekkapel De Gidsen, Wrocław Improvising Orchestra, orkest de ereprijs, Il Fondamento, Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, and Ensemble Adapter, Ekmeles, Distractfold, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet, and have been premiered at Brussels’ La Monnaieand the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ in Amsterdam, as well as Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, “Codes” Festival of Musical Tradition and Avant-Garde in Lublin, Musikprotokoll in Graz, and MATA in New York.
Her music has been featured at numerous festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Japan such as Musica Moderna and Musica Privata in Łódź, Wrocław’s Musica Polonica Nova, Codes in Ljubljana, Cuban-Norwegian Theatre Days in Havana, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, and the Manufactuur residency at Ghent’s De Bijloke Muziekcentrum.
She works with newly established contemporary music ensembles from Europe, Japan, and the USA, including Ensemble Fractales, Passepartout Duo, Ensemble Kompopolex, Down the Rabbit Hole, Nemø Ensemble, The Third Guy, Erämaa Trio, and Pique Collective.
In recent years, Fukuoka has received a commission for a new piece from the Darmstadt Courses for New Music and was invited to a residency with K!ART Ensemble in Copenhagen. She won the Hildegard Commission for music for a short film, which premiered in March2025 at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York. Her recent piece for a large ensemble and live animation, commissioned by the National Polish Radio Orchestra in Katowice, Poland, also premiered in March.
Her interests oscillate between multilingualism, science fiction literature and internet reality, hence the frequent appearance of found objects and elements of mass culture in her work. In her works, she prefers to communicate with the audience not only through music, but also through video and performance. One of the most important themes in her work is interdisciplinary activities, which she develops in collaboration with visual artists and choreographers.
Selected works: SINGLE PLAYER v.2 co-op for percussion, synthesizer and video (2017), The Final Girl for harpist, video and electronics (2018), uncanny valley for video, flute, accordion, percussion and electronics (2018), Horror Project: Yuggoth for electronics, live-processed video, clarinet, cello and percussion (2018), 5 Secrets to Making New Music for video, electronics, violin, flutes, saxophones and Hammond organ (2019), The Garden of Mindfulness for electronics, reciter, violin, clarinet, piano and objects (2019), SINGLE PLAYER v.3 Three for All for video, electric guitar and snare drum (2019), Still Life #31 for electronics, flute, clarinet, harp, percussion/electronics and objects (2019), how to jouïssance for video, electronics and harpsichord (2019), Zansei 残生 for flute, video and electronics (2020), Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice for five performers (two violins, accordion, piano, percussion) and electronics (2020), The Garden, interactive VR installation for Windows 10 and MacOS (2020), Fever dream made manifest for vocal sextet (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass) and electronics (2021), Trinity of selves for video, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, tape and electronics (2021), No gentle caressing for ensemble and Alois Hába’s six-tone harmonium (2021), Restless for large ensemble, soprano and electronics (2022), We are different; we are all the same for ryūteki, hichiriki and shō (2022), Derrotero, electronic music to a play by Gabriela Burdsall and William Ruiz Morales (2022), With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes for percussion quartet and DIY instruments (2022), Waterfalls for marimba, violin, objects and electronics (2022), Fungible Memories for string quartet and electronics(2023), Aqui, music for dance show (2023), Polka is a Czech dance for flute(s), clarinet(s), cello, percussion and piano (2023), Music for Aliens for ensemble and nine ocarinas (2024), Droga Dō, music for an audiovisual installation with five performers and electronics (2024),Body without Organs for large ensemble, electronics and live animation (2025), Story of O, short film music for seven performers and electronics(2025), Far Cry for brass quintet (2025).