Sanae Ishida was born in Nagasaki in 1979.

She studied composition with Masakazu NAGATOMI and Ichiro NODAIRA at the Tôkyô University of Fine Arts and Music, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Allain Gaussin, Marco Stroppa and Gérard Pesson.

She was awarded the Prix Hervé Dugardin by SACEM in 2021.

Previously, she won the André Jolivet First Composition Prize and the Francisco Escudero International Competition, and her work Cinq doigts, commissioned by Radio France, was selected by the final commission of the ISCM World MusicDays festival in 2017, representing the French section. She received a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Culture in 2006.

She has received commissions from various organizations, including the French Ministry of Culture, Maison de Radio France, the Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation, Ensemble Linéa and Ensemble Atlas.

Her music is inspired by the Japanese arts – Butô, martial arts, Noh theater, and Asian philosophies – ichigo ichié, once an encounter with Zen Buddhism, the non-action of Taoism. She creates music, for example, in the work for choreographic performance “Enlacement corps et sons”, combining these sources of inspiration with her research into the interaction between bodily gesture and sound.

His works have been performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Accroche Note, le Balcon, Solistes de l’Ensemble Intercontemporain, Atlas, Linéa, HANATSUmiroir, WolfGang etc ; as well as soloists such as Pierre Strauch, Mihi Kim, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Marie-Andrée Joerger, Maruricio Carrasco, Elise Chauvin, Mari Sano, Naomi Shirai, Naomi Sato, Rémi Reber, Julie Brunet-Jailly, Masato MATSUURA – martial artist.

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