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Hibiki Mukai (b.1993) is a Japanese musician and composer who has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Lawson-May Award in UK, 1st Prize at The Matan Givol International Composers Competition in Israel, "Marin Goleminov" International Composition Prize in Sofia,  Festival Musica Academy’s prize 2018 in Strasbourg, 1st Prize at the ORDA-2019 Composition Competition, 1st Prize at the 84th Music Competition of Japan, the Miyoshi Prize, the Iwatani Prize, the Meiji Yasuda Prize, as well as the 33rd ACL Young Composers Prize. He has been commissioned by notably the Ukrainian Institute (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Festival Musica Strasbourg, Venice Biennale Musica [Venice]. Furthermore, his works have been selected for the Gaudeamus Music Week [Utrecht], Elektro Arts [Cluj-Napoca], Jurgenson Competition [Moscow], and the ICMC [Shanghai, Daegu].

In addition to these accolades, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, and completed his Master of Music degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague in 2019 and his Postgraduate diploma in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp with Summa Cum Laude in 2020.
 
Hibiki is currently based in Porto, Portugal to pursuing a PhD degree in Digital Media at the University of Porto as the fellow from the Agency for cultural affairs, Government of Japan.

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