Michiko Ogawa is a performer-composer specialising in the clarinet, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She performs not only classical repertoire but also contemporary and experimental musics, including free improvisation and film soundtrack work. She is also working with Hammond organ and "sho"; Japanese bamboo organ.
She also has been collaborating with musicians Samuel Dunscombe, Taku Sugimoto, James Rushford, Carolyn Chen, Golden Fur, Manuel Lima, Lucy Railton, Jonny Chang and Klaus Lang. She also frequently collaborates with visual artists, such Angela Jennings, Lindsay Bloom, Brianna Rigg, Laurence Favre and Sabina Maselli. She is one of the core members of the collectively oriented Harmonic Space Orchestra in Berlin since 2019.
As a researcher, she has been researching about Teiji Ito, a Japanese-American performer and composer based in New York City since 2015, and received a DMA for his dissertation focusing on Teiji Ito's film music. She is currently working on his biography.
