Originally from Japan, Shiori is a BBC Proms commissioned composer and free improviser who plays piano (including her favourite, inside and under the grand piano), noise vocal, beautifully out of tune zither, Cuíca that cries with a visceral voice, and various small noise making objects. Shiori also worked as a co-composer and performer of the sensory theatre show Sound Symphony for and with disabled young people, directed by Oily Cart’s artistic director, Ellie Griffith. Shiori now lives in Dundee, Scotland. The Times newspaper described her as a composer with “entirely individual ears” after the successful premiere of the her first professionally commissioned piece “Liya-pyuwa” for piano quintet at Wigmore Hall, London in 2006.
Shiori has produced works in radical instrumental music, and has worked with motion capturing sensors and biophysical technology along with her colleagues. Many of her compositions are inspired by the sounds of the human body, the deep sea, and many other weird and wonderful organisms living on Earth.
As a composer, Shiori has worked with numerous international ensembles and orchestras including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, Collegium Novum Zurich conducted by Peter Rundel, Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus conducted by Alexander Merzyn, and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
As an improvising musician, Shiori has performed with artists and groups such as Arve Henriksen, Ilan Volkov, Rie Nakajima, Lee Patterson, Cato, Grey Area, BCMG and Collegium Novum Zurich.
Shiori has been a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2012, Civitella Ranieri Music Fellowship in conjunction with the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursary (2010), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Cove Park composer’s residency (2012), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music composer-in-residence (2013-2014), Scottish Chamber Orchestra Connect Fellow funded by BBC Performing Arts Fund (2013-2014) for working with disabled young people, Ricordi Lab publishing scheme from Ricordi Berlin (2016 - 2019), Scottish Awards for New Music for large ensemble (2018) and Awards for Artists by Paul Hamlyn Foundation (2019).