Residency artists and researchers Music Aki Ito Composer Japanese born Aki Ito studied composition in France in the Conservatoire de Paris, where she also attended courses on analysis, orchestration, musical acoustics and how to apply new technologies to composition. Ito has worked with musicians from Ensemble Intercontemporain, Multilatérale ensemble and Smash Ensemble (Spain) and has received scholarships from various foundations, such as Meyer Foundation and Fonds de Tarrazi. One of Aki Ito’s major collaborations was with Richard Siegal, founder and choreographer of the Bakery, with whom she worked with a multidisciplinary project If/Then, which was influenced by many genres of music, contemporary art and dance. Aki Ito was also a finalist in Métamorphoses 2006 competition, fellow of the Casa de Velázquez in 2010 and winner of Hors les Murs Culturesfrance 2011 of L’Institut Français. At the Saari Residence Aki Ito will create a new piece for clarinet and cello,in collaboration with Mikko Raasakka and Markus Hohti, through the researches on form – the notion of time – and on timbre. HTTP://WWW.BABELSCORES.COM/AKIITO