Akari Komura is a Japanese composer-vocalist. She grew up in Tokyo until she was twelve, then moved abroad due to her parent’s work to spend her teenage-hood in Indonesia. This transition impacted her to develop a deeper connection to music and to communicate with others regardless of the language barrier. From an early age, Akari has been involved in performing arts through playing the piano, singing, and dancing modern ballet. She has performed mainly as a vocalist in diverse genres including musical theatre, opera, and vocal jazz.

Akari’s breadth of work spans chamber ensemble, multimedia/electronics, vocal music, and interdisciplinary collaborative works involving dancers, visual artists, and architects. Some of her works have been featured in the Composers Conference, Atlantic Music Festival, soundSCAP, and Penn State New Music Festival. She is a recipient of EXCEL Enterprise Fund and Sonic Scenographies Research Grant (University of Michigan). She also has been an artist-in-resident for the Socially Distant Art program.

She is currently pursuing M.M. in Composition at the University of Michigan, studying with Evan Chambers and Roshanne Etezady, and holds B.A. in Vocal Arts from the University of California, Irvine.