New York-based Percussionist Maiko Hosoda has a great passion for playing new music. She has collaborated with many distinguished composers and New York City’s leading contemporary groups including The Broadway Sinfonietta, Rhymes with Opera, Bare Opera, Ensemble Mise-en, Choral Chameleon and others. She has commissioned and premiered solo and chamber works through those collaborations and has been always searching a way to reach out to new audience.  Her recent commissioned works include”O’ver_Fl’ow” by Hansol Choi, “A Prayer on Waking” by Jered Sorkin, “I am like you” by Samuel Zagnit which were world premiered by Caught In A Snare which is the contemporary chamber music group she co-found in New York City. Her recent performances include a Broadway musical “Days of Wine and Roses”, the Broadway Sinfonietta film concert series, "Let's Enact Silence: John Cage in Context" at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), “Maria De Buenos Aires” with Bare Opera, to name a few. Those performances have been reviewed highly by New York Times, Observer and many others.

She performs internationally as a soloist and a member of several chamber music groups and a percussion ensemble in North America, in Europe, and in Asia. She has been invited to perform solo and chamber works in Orford Music Festival (Quebec, Canada), Tromp Percussion (Eindhoven, Netherland), and MusiTravel (Tokyo, Japan) to name a few. MusiTravel has released an album “Story and Music Collection” in 2018 which she has participated in. She is a member of Beyond Borders Percussion Sextet which made a debut in Eindhoven, Netherland in 2014.

As a composer and an arranger, her primary focus is on creating works that are accessible to young musicians. She composes educational percussion ensembles and songs and her works have been published from Musicalion, Gakken, Suzuki Publishing, Hikarinokuni and others. Her compositions have been performed in the concert series of youth choir groups like the Tokyo based National Children’s Castle Choir, and informally in classrooms across Japan.

As an educator, she has trained extensively in Carl-Orff Schulwerk and Dalcroze Eurhythmics where she utilizes these methods in both her playing and teaching. She teaches and has taught at numerous music education institutes such as Diller Quaile School Of Music (NY) and has appeared as a guest artist/ instructor in Japan Orff-Schulwerk workshop, and Japan Society for Contemporary Music Education Program.

 Maiko was born in Manchester, UK and raised in Yokohama, Japan. She earned a Bachelor’s degree at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) in Aesthetics. After graduating she received scholarship from Manne College The New School of music (NY, USA) and studied with Glen Velez, Maya Gunji, Joseph Tompkins, Michael Warner and James Baker. While she was studying there, she appeared as a soloist with the Mannes Orchestra and performed “Water Concerto” by Tan Dun as the winner of The Mannes Concerto Competition. She continued her study after finishing her Master’s degree and earned Professional Study Diploma in Music from Mannes College The New School for Music graduating with Mannes Performance Award.