takayuki rai
Born in Tokyo in 1954. He studied composition with Yoshiro Irino and Helmut Lachenmann, and computer music with Paul Berg at the Utrecht Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He has worked at the Institute of Sonology from 1982 till 1990 as a guest composer. His works have been selected at numerous international competitions such as the Gaudeamus Competition, the ISCM World Music Days, the International Computer Music Conference, and so on. He also won the first prizes at the Bourges Competition in 1985 and 1989, the Irino Composition Prize in Japan, and the first prize at the NEWCOMP Competition, U.S.A. and in 1991, the ICMA Award. He is currently teaching computer music at the Sonology Department, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.
