Composer and improviser (keyboard and voice). She completed her PhD in Composition at City University. Her music has been performed and broadcast in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. She has received awards in several competitions including the Continuum Ensemble Improvisation Competition and the DNA Fanfare Competition, and she was a finalist in the British Composer Awards 2006. She currently performs with The Artaud Beats (Geoff Leigh, Chris Cutler, John Greaves), Yosshy YUMI-Yama (Tatsuya Yoshida, Hoppy Kamiyama), Mammal Machine (Rie Miyazaki, Mitsuru Tabata, Yasuyuki Watanabe) and duo with Guy Harries.  

Composition, Improvisation and performance.

• Music

•         PA 1301 Music Skills (module leader)
•         PA 1303 Musical Collaboration and Improvisation (module leader)
•         PA 2302 Music Performance & Production
•         PA 3301 The Music Culture Independent Production

Media/Art outputs

• 2012/ Performance at Druskomanija Festival in Druskininkai, Lithuania with Guy Harries
• 2011/ CD album Statement Heels by Yumi Hara Cawkwell (London, Academy Recordings)
• 2010/ CD album Ride a White Rabbit by Yumi Hara Cawkwell & Sato Yukie (Tokyo, KOOTOWN)
• 2010/ CD album Mitsugi (Esoteric Rituals) by Mammal Machine (Yumi Hara Cawkwell, Mitsuru Tabata, Rie Miyazaki & Yasuyuki Watanabe) (Tokyo, Captain Trip Recordings)
• 2010/ album Dream of the Gryllidae by Yumi Hara & Tony Lowe (London, Academy Recordings, digital distribution)

Conference papers

• September 2011/  Presentation at The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation, Kobe University, Japan. 'Setting Assignments in Improvised Music Modules'.

Media/Art outputs

• 2009/ CD album Upstream by Geoff Leigh & Yumi Hara (New York: MoonJune).
• 2008/ CD album Dune by HUMI (Hugh Hopper & Yumi Hara Cawkwell) (New York: MoonJune)

Article

• 2008 'Japanese Composers in the Multicultural UK: identity tactics and self-exoticism' in Music of Japan Today (eds. E. Michael Richards and Kazuko Tanosaki) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

Conference papers

• September 2010/ Presentation at The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation, Kobe University, Japan. 'Crossing the Boder within: Improvisation as a Meeting Point'.
• September 2009/ Chair of panel disccusion 'Evaluation of Musical Improvisation in Education' at The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation, Kobe University, Japan.
• September 2008/ Speaker at The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation, Kobe University, Japan. ' Teaching Musical Improvisation at HE level'.

Japanese Composers in the Multicultural UK: identity tactics and self exoticism

Video for CD 'Statement Heels'

Video for 'Walk on the Middle of the Road' from CD Statement Heels

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