TSURUMI, Sachiyo

Sachiyo Tsurumi (born in Bando, Ibaraki Prefecture in 1976) graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in composition. She has produced works in a wide variety of genres: orchestral, choral, film and sumo music in addition to modern arrangements of Japanese traditional music. She released a CD of representative works in 2013 titled, eu canto… (fontec). Since 2014 (while serving on the board of JACSHA – Japan Association of Composers for Sumo Hearing Arts) Tsurumi has pursued the connection between sumo and music, directing the 3rd Ryogoku Art Festival’s “Butsukari Piano Ryogoku Monten Basho” in 2017. More recently, she had a solo exhibition at the 2018 Arts Tropical called, 20th century/ Method/ Japan/ Sumo Hearing Arts/ Okinawa.