Contemporary KOTO Music Repository
| Title | Composer | Instrument/s |
|---|---|---|
| A Lattice if Winds | Jim Franklin | koto, shakuhachi |
| A Chorus Upon the Blue Guitar | Martin Schreiner | shakuhachi, koto |
| A Geometry in Time (version I) | Martin Schreiner | shakuhachi, koto, 17-string koto |
| A Little Winter Flower | Hyo-shin Na | koto, double bass, piano, choir |
| A Page of Madness | Gene Coleman | koto, sho |
| A-hun 阿吽 | Takashi Koto | koto, shakuhachi |
| Adios Nonino | Chappell Kingsland (Astor Piazzolla, arr.) | 3 kotos |
| After Michio | Daniel Wilson | 17-string koto |
| Afterimages: For Bass Koto & Percussion | Barry Conyngham | 17-string koto, purcussion |
| Afterimages: For Bass Koto & Orchestra | Barry Conyngham | bass koto, flute (doubling alto flute), oboe (doubling cor anglais), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), horn, trumpet, trombone (B flat-F), percussion |
| Alian Moon | Tony Lewis | koto |
| Amethyst Overtones | Chappell Kingsland | 21-string koto, clarinet in A |
| And Still | Jason Cady | 2 kotos, 17-string koto, soprano |
| &The | Jason Cady | 17-string koto, mezzo-soprano |
| Ang Tulay ng San Sebastian | Hiroko Nagai | 2 kotos, 17-string koto |
| Antares: 3 Pieces for Shakuhachi and Koto | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, shakuhachi or tenor recorder |
| Antiphony Ⅲ | Kazuo Kikkawa | 17-string koto, contrabass |
| Arctic Voyager | Marjorie M. Rusche | koto, flute, violin, viola, cello |
| At the Mercy of the Wind 風のまにまに | Takashi Koto | Koto, Shakuhachi |
| Av dagg och fattigdom (Of Dew and Poverty) | Kristofer Svensson | 17-string koto, cello |
| Backup | Masahiko Okura | koto |
| Ballade for 13-string koto | Martin Schreiner | koto |
| Bamboo and Silk Tango | Martin Schreiner | Koto, shakuhachi |
| Bendings | Il-Ryun Chung | koto, gayageum, guzheng, janggu, jing |
| bit0 | Tanapon Chiwinpiti | 17-string koto, computer |
| Bliss for Sheng, Daegeum, Koto, Violin, Viola, Cello and Double Bass | Dai Fujikura | sheng, daegeum, koto, violin, viola, cello, double bass |
| Blue Rondo a la Take Five | Chappell Kingsland (David Brubeck and Paul Desmond, arr.) | koto, 17-string koto, 20-string koto |
| Burning House: For Koto and Voice | Liza Lim | koto |
| But If You | Jason Cady | koto, soprano, contrabass |
| CHINKON (Requium) | Mark Isaacs | 17-string koto |
| Cho no Hentai (Metamorphosis of a Butterfly) | Maria Christine Muyco | 4 kotos |
| Chorale, Demon, Beacon | Andrew Schultz | 17-string koto, purcussion |
| Chrysanthemum Song for koto and 25 string kayageum | Hyo-shin Na | koto, 25-string gayageum |
| Cloud Study | Hyo-shin Na | 17-string koto, haeguem |
| Cloudy Mountain | Anne Boyd (arranged by Satsuki Odamura and Riley Lee) | koto, shakuhachi (originally flute and piano) |
| Composition No.60 "Shoto/Noonday" I | Erwin Koch-Raphael | koto, recorder |
| Concertino No. 3 | Martin Schreiner | Koto, Orchestra |
| Contrasts and Metamorphoses | Martin Schreiner | Koto, Shakuhachi |
| Crazy Flower | Masahiro Sugaya | koto, vocal |
| Crazy Horse | Hyo-shin Na | koto, Korean traditional orchestra |
| Crimson Sky | Ian Cleworth | 17-string koto, taikos |
| Crossing Mountains (山越え) | Takashi Koto | shakuhachi and koto soloists with Symphony orchestra |
| Dance, Bare (After Gymnopedie No. 1) | Christopher J. Miller | koto |
| Dawn, Day, Dusk | Caroline Szeto | koto, guitar |
| Dawn Prayers 後朝の歌 | Daryl Jamieson | satsuma biwa (with voice), 13-string koto (with voice), viol |
| Dawn Prayers 後朝の歌 2012 | Daryl Jamieson | high voice, koto (with voice), va, pf |
| Dawn Prayers 後朝の歌 2013 | Daryl Jamieson | high voice, koto, satsuma biwa (with voice), shakuhachi |
| Debris | Rita Ueda | koto, sho, shakuhachi or shinobue, sanxian, soprano, baritone |
| Dirge and Computation | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, shakuhachi |
| Distributions.unions | Alyssa Aska | 17-string koto, tenor saxophone |
| Dnb | Martin Rane Bauck | 17-string koto, bass flute, bowed shoe box |
| Duo No.1 | Jemes Nyoraku Schlefer | koto, shakuahchi |
| Duologue I. West II. East III. Encounter IV. Conflict V. Contract | Jung Sun Kang | koto, violin |
| Echoes of Harmonious Music for kayageum and koto | Hyo-shin Na | koto, gayageum |
| Facing West from California's Shores: fantasia on poem of walt Whitman | Martin Schreiner | alto voice, shakuhachi, koto |
| Fairweather | Erik Grisword | koto, 17-string koto, 2 violins, viola, cello |
| Fallout | Remington Owen | koto, soprano, alto, baritone |
| Fan | Alvin Lucier | 4 kotos |
| Five Pieces on Yoshie Hikage’s Poems: Fukushima Refugees/No More!/For the Wild Chrysanthemum/For the Adonis/Missing You Husband | Hyo-shin Na | koto |
| For Bass Koto with Balloons | Judy Dunaway | 17-string koto |
| Four Etudes and Fantasia | Martin Schreiner | shakuhachi, koto |
| Fukujuso | Hyo-shin Na | 3 kotos, 17-string koto, cello |
| Fumon (風紋) | Takashi Koto | Koto, Shakuhachi |
| Futakuchi-onna (A Woman with Two Mouths ) | Fabrizio de Rossi Re | 17-string koto, bass block flute |
| Gaijin (Foreigners) | Carl Vine | koto, 17-string koto, string orchaestra |
| Garden | Rosalind Page | koto |
| Garota da Ipanema | Chappell Kingsland (Antonio Carlos Jobim, arr.) | koto, 17-string koto, 20-string koto, shakuhachi |
| Gesang Davor | Il-Ryun Chung | 17-string koto, tenor recorder, bass recorder, sub-bass recorder |
| Go on Listening for kayageum and bass koto | Hyo-shin Na | 17-string koto, gayageum |
| Goblins' Lagoon | Hiroko Ito | koto, gayageum, guzheng, janggu |
| Gogatsu no Shinju (Pearls in May) | Sandy Evans | 4 kotos, 17-string koto |
| GRAVITY | Il-Ryun Chung | daegeum, sheng, 17-string koto,violin, viola, cello, double bass, janggu, percussion |
| Gumnuts | Mimi Kind | 4 kotos |
| Haiku | Michael Whitiker | 17-string koto |
| Her Wild Spirit | Sandy Evans | 3 kotos, 2 17-string kotos, tenor saxophone |
| Hidden Ponds Ⅱ for 13-string koto | Takeo Kudo | koto (Originally for 21-string koto; transcribed for 13-string koto : 2010; transcribed 2020) |
| HORIZON’S CHANT | Chong Kee Yong | koto, 37-reed soprano sheng, gayageum |
| How Can I Keep From Singing? | Chappell Kingsland (traditional American, arr.) | 21-string koto, clarinet in B-flat |
| Ice Flowers | David Liptak | koto, violin |
| Improvisation: Winter Haiku von Yosa Buson | Gaby Bultmann and Makiko Goto | koto, bass and sopranino block flutes |
| In Other Ways Your Image | Sarah de Jong | koto |
| In Repose | Michael Whiticker | koto, pre-recorded sound |
| In Spirals I. Between Sleep and Unsleep II. A Lapse III. Trapped in Spirals | Michaela Eremiasova | koto, soprano, chamber orchestra |
| In the Practice Room | Jung Sun Kang | koto, violin, piano, electronic sound |
| Inclinations for Two Kotos (二面の箏のための偏り) | Takashi Koto (arranged from a harp piece) | 2 kotos |
| Ink on Canvas | Gerardo Gozzi | 17-string koto, clarinet, aloto flute, violin, cello |
| Inner States | Anne Norman | koto |
| Intermezzi II | Misato Mochizuki | koto |
| Interrupted Aria (遮られたアリア) | Takashi Koto | koto, shakuhachi |
| It Lightens, It Brightens . . . | Stefan Hakenberg | bass recorder, kayagum, bass koto, cello |
| Je te Veux | Chappell Kingsland (Eric Satie, arr.) | koto, 17-string koto, 20-string koto |
| Jet-Black and Silver | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, shakuhachi (or other flutes) |
| Jindo Arirang | Hyo-shin Na (Korean folk song, arr) | koto, piri, shamisen, janggu |
| Kaze ni hirugaeru (Fluttering in the wind) | Chappell Kingsland | koto |
| Kochi (East Winds) 東風 | Takashi Koto | Koto, Orchestra |
| Koto | Liza Lim | koto, flute, oboe, flugehorn, percussion, viola, 2 cellos |
| Koto Dreaming | Ross Edwards | koto, cello, flute |
| Koto Music | Hyo-shin Na | 3 kotos |
| Koto Ninano | Hyo-shin Na | 3 kotos |
| Koto Uta | Toshio Hosokawa | voice, koto |
| Koto, Bass koto | Hyo-shin Na | koto, 17-string koto |
| Koto, Bass Koto II | Hyo-shin Na | koto, 17-string koto |
| Koto, Bass, Piano | Hyo-shin Na | koto, bass, piano |
| Koto, Piano | Hyo-shin Na | koto, piano |
| Koto, Piano II | Hyo-shin Na | koto, piano |
| Koto, Violin | Hyo-shin Na | 17-string koto, violin |
| Koto.Lengō | Gianni Bozzola | 17-string koto, oboe |
| Kyoto-Naigai | Gene Coleman | 2 kotos, sho, bass clarinet, cello, trombone, e-guitar, live electronics |
| Lake Yarrunga Colours | Sandy Evans | koto, soprano saxophone |
| Lament for three Gotos | Young Ja Lee | 3 kotos |
| Landscape: Graz | Chaz Underriner | 17-string koto, video, field recording |
| Landscapes | Martin Schreiner | koto, shakuhachi |
| Light from the One | Annette Schlunz | 17-string koto, recorder |
| Little Requiem | Peter Sculthorpe | koto, 17-string koto, string orchaestra |
| Love is a Deeper Season | Sandy Evans | koto, 17-string koto, taiko |
| Lovely Letters From Squirrels りす | Makoto Nomura | koto |
| Makura | Anthony Briggs | 17-string koto |
| Matsuri | Michael Askill | koto, percussions |
| Meditations | Zachary Wadsworth | 17-string koto, violin |
| Melody of Wave II | Hyo-shin Na | koto, shinobue |
| Melody of Wave III | Hyo-shin Na | shinobue, violin, 17-string koto, piano |
| Meong Yuda (Warrior Cat) | Chappell Kingsland | 20-string koto, Balinese gamelan angklung (14 players) |
| Meong Yuda for Balinese Gamelan Angklung and four Japanese Kotos | Chappell Kingsland | 2 kotos, 17-string koto, 21-string koto, Balinese gamelan angklung (14 players) |
| Moments in Human Life | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, gayageum, Korean percussion, guzheng, string quartet |
| Monologue | Toshio Nakagawa | 3 kotos, 17-string koto |
| Moon in the Water | Sandy Evans | 3 kotos, 17-string koto, soprano saxophone |
| Moon Spirit Feasting | Liza Lim | koto, chamber opera |
| My favorite things | Chappell Kingsland (Richard Rogers, arr.) | 3 kotos |
| Myself in the Disguise of an Ancient Goddess 古代女神に扮した私 | Daryl Jamieson | 13-string koto (with voice) |
| Night Procession of the HundredﾠDemons | Hyo-shin Na | 3 17-string kotos or any multiple of 3 bass kotos |
| Nokomis Falling from the Moon into Lake Gitchigumi | Martin Schreiner | shakuhachi, koto |
| Nori for Koto Solo | Eunjoo Oh | koto |
| Not I But the Wind 私ではなく風が | Takashi Koto | koto, shakuhachi |
| Nur meine stimme bleibt (Only My Voice Remains) | Mayako Kubo | koto, soprano block flute, tenor block flute |
| On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon | Alvin Lucier | koto |
| Orfeo on My Mind | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, shakuhachi |
| Pagdating ng Buwan: Improvisation for 17-string Koto and Indigenous Igal Dance (When the moon comes out) | Hiroko Nagai | 17-string koto |
| parting song | Daryl Jamieson | 13-string koto |
| plaintive belling | Daryl Jamieson | 13-string koto (with voice) |
| Poesie | Jonas Baes | koto, cello |
| Possibly Beautiful | Scott Wilson | 17-string koto, CD player |
| Pretang, Tang | Linsey Pollak | 17-string koto, soprano saxophone |
| Promise of Summer | Ryan Williams | 17-string koto, voice, bass recorder |
| Quartet for four kotos in Proportional Acceleration and Deceleration | Justin Yang | 4 kotos, animated interface |
| Rain Has Passed | Sandy Evans | 6 kotos, 17-string koto |
| Requiem | Chico Mello | koto, tenor block flute, bass block flute |
| Return of the Fishing Boat at Dusk | Julian Yu | koto, violin |
| Ripples On Water | Takashi Koto | koto |
| Rock Water Temple | Sandy Evans | koto, soprano saxophone |
| Sailing the Grey Waves | J. Jacob McNulty | 3 kotos, 17-string koto |
| Sakura | Chappell Kingsland (traditional Japanese, arr.) | 21-string koto, SATB choir |
| Sakura | Chappell Kingsland (traditional Japanese, arr.) | 3 kotos, shakuhachi |
| Sankyoko No.1 | James Nyoraku Schlefer | koto, 17-string koto, shakuhachi |
| Saru Kabuto | Phil South | 17-string koto, percussion |
| Satie on the Beach 浜辺のサティ | Takashi Koto | koto, shakuhachi |
| Schneeglokchen 宵待草 | Toshio Hosokawa | koto, recorder |
| Seeing What There is to See | Christopher Reiche | koto, shakuhachi |
| Seiyuu (Calm Evening) | David Loeb | koto, harpsichord |
| Shade | Michaela Eremiasova | koto, violin |
| Shakkei 借景 | Daryl Jamieson | 17-string koto, guitar |
| Shakkei 借景 (2019) | Daryl Jamieson | kannel, 13-string koto |
| Shuuki for Koto and Violin | Robert Morris | koto, violin |
| Silent Circle | Misato Mochizuki | flute solo, 20-string koto, percussion, guitar, harp, violin, viola, contrabass |
| Sinuous, Supple (Peculiar) | Christopher J. Miller | koto, Javanese rebab and/or shakuhachi, Javanese gender |
| SKALA | Il-Ryun Chung | daegeum, 17-string koto, 25-string gayageum, tanbur, chang, violin, viola, cello, double bass, janggu, percussion |
| Song of a Giant Tortoise | Stefan Hakenberg | Koto and Shakuhachi |
| Song of Disillusionment | Hyo-shin Na | koto/17-string koto, shamisen |
| Song of Doves 鳩の歌 | Takashi Koto | koto |
| Song of One Lost in the Fog | Hyo-shin Na | koto, flute or alto flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano |
| Song of the Fog | Hyo-shin Na | 17-string koto, clarinet, violin, piano |
| Sonobe | Alyssa Aska | 17-string koto |
| Sonoroue Body | Liza Lim | koto |
| Soran-bushi | Hyo-shin Na (Janese fold song, arr) | koto, shamisen, janggu, piri |
| Spiral Network | Gene Coleman | koto, sho |
| Stonegreyblue Gaze | Antonia Barnett-McIntosh | 17-string koto, guitar |
| Strands: 2 Movements for Trombone and Koto | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, trombone |
| Sunlight among the Pines | Martin Schreiner | shakuhachi, koto |
| Sunlight Dancing Upon Mountain Snow | Martin Schreiner | koto, orchestra |
| Surface Tension | Vera Ivanova | 17-string koto, violin/viola |
| Tadayou | Scott Wilson | koto, 17-string koto, Javanese Gamelan |
| Taking the Scarlet | Winnie Cheung | 17-string koto, violin |
| Tangled Lights for Koto and String Orchestra 弦楽合奏と箏のための乱光 | Takashi Koto | koto, string orchestra |
| Tango at the Edge of Time | Martin Schreiner | Shakuhachi, Koto soloists, Symphony orchestra |
| Taut | Elizabeth A. Kelly | koto, violin |
| That Old Woman for bass koto and 25 string kayageum | Hyo-shin Na | 17-string koto, 25-string gayageum |
| Thaumatrope | Shawn Onsgard | koto |
| “The Ghost of Urashima: A Tale in Three Parts” | Daria Dobrochna Kwiatkowska | 17-string koto, oboe, percussion, narrator |
| The Koi Pond | Richard Belcastro | koto, clarinet, piano, violin, cello |
| The Phase of Eclipse 蝕の相 | Takashi Koto | koto, shakuhachi |
| The Portraits of Prasidh Silapabanleng | Pasinee Sakulsararat | koto, pi, octet, string quintet, wind symphony |
| The Silver Pavillion | Ian Cleworth | three kotos, three 17-string kotos, taiko, percussion |
| The Sky was beyond Description | Hyo-shin Na | koto, 17-string koto |
| The World as I Found It: a listening practice for K/OTO | Junko Oba | koto, voices |
| Thoughts of Distant Clouds | Jim Franklin | koto, shakuhachi |
| 3 and Piano | Hyo-shin Na | koto, shakuhachi, shamisen, piano |
| Three Meditations | Martin Schreiner | Koto, Shakuhachi |
| Three Zithers and a Pair of Scissors | Stefan Hakenberg | koto, gayageum, janggu, guzheng |
| Through the Gentle Rain | Jack Gable | koto, flute |
| Toccata | Misato Mochizuki | 21-string koto, recorder |
| Tokorozawa Ballad | Kaori Yonekura | koto, violin |
| Trio for Two Kotos and Bass koto | Justin Yang | two kotos, 17-string koto |
| Tumbling from the Ninth Height of Heaven | Thomas Osborne | koto, violin |
| Twining Voices 纒繞聲 | Yuji Takahashi | koto, gayageum, janggu, zheng |
| Uki koto kikanu tokoro ari ya 憂きこと聞かぬところありや (Is Nowhere Free of Bad Tidings?) | Daryl Jamieson | koto, 17-string koto, satsuma biwa, shakuhachi, voice, Japanese percussion |
| Ukiyo: Floating World | Juliet Palmer | 17-string koto, piano, violin, shamisen, percussion, objects |
| Umi Sajin | Mitsuki Dazai and Tessa Brinckman | koto, 17-string koto, flute, alto flute, piccolo |
| Unreal Fair | Sarah de Jong | koto, percussin, voice |
| Utamakura 5: Mt Kamakura | Daryl Jamieson | 17-string koto, cello, piano, flutes, percussion, clarinet, violin |
| Water Music | Martin Schreiner | koto, shakuhachi |
| Wave upon Wave | Gene Coleman | two kotos, sho, bass clarinet, cello, e-guitar, trombone, live electronics |
| When Doves Coo…鳩が鳴くときに… | Takashi Koto | koto, orchestra |
This list contains compositions where:
1) the commissioned person lives outside of Japan
2) the first performance/premiere was outside of Japan
3) if the commissioner and the world premier performer lives in Japan, the composer must be non-Japanese