is a Japanese pianist, music educator, composer, and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Japan and studied music at the Toho Gakuen School of Music

Toho Gakuen School of Music

is a private conservatoire located in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.-History:Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Kudan as a music school for children, and two years later opened the Toho High School of Music, to provide quality musical education to teenage girls. 1955 saw the establishment of the Junior...

 and the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

. After completing her education, she took a position teaching music at Toho Gakuen.

Works

Masumoto composes music for chamber ensemble, opera and voice performance. Selected compositions include:

• Pastorale for solo recorder
• Archaic Phrase for solo Chang harp
• Tapestry for solo harpsichord
• Ranjoh for solo flute

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