Kotoka Suzuki, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a composer focusing on both multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines.
Her work has been featured internationally by performers such as Arditti String Quartet, Pacifica String Quartet, Continuum, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra (Germany), and Earplay Ensemble, at numerous venues and festivals such as Ultraschall, ISCM World Music Days, Inventionen Festival, The Stone, and Music at the Anthology (MATA). Among the awards she has received include DAAD Artist in Resident Berlin (Germany), MacDowell Fellowship, Bourges Prize-Multimedia, Robert Fleming Prize from Canada Council for the Arts, Howard Foundation Fellowship, and Yaddo Fellowship.
She received a B.M. degree in composition from Indiana University and a D.M.A. degree in composition at Stanford University, where she studied with Jonathan Harvey. She served as a member of the composition faculty at the University of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her work is published on Edition RZ, EMF Media, Signpost Music and IMEB records.