Misato Mochizuki (born 1969)
Misato Mochizuki was born in Tokyo, and received a Masters degree in composition at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in that city. Her website indicates that her music combines “Occidental tradition and the Asiatic sense of breathing.”
This 2015 composition Le Monde des Ronds et des Careés (“The World of Rounds and Squares“) for two percussionists and two pianists begins meditatively, almost ritualistically, but then develops a rhythmic intricacy that reminds me at various times of gamelan music, of jazz, and of Bartók, concluding with a drum solo free-for-all:
At the end of the performance, the composer comes to the stage.