Junko Mori is a Japanese composer and music educator. She was born in Niigata Prefecture

Niigata Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Honshū on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The capital is the city of Niigata. The name "Niigata" literally means "new lagoon".- History :...

, Japan, and attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in music in 1971. She continued her studies in composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi

Tomojiro Ikenouchi

was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music and professor born in Tokyo, Japan. The son of a haiku poet, Ikenouchi traveled to Paris in 1927, where he studied composition with Henri Büsser and piano with Lazare Levy. His music is influenced by French Impressionist music...

, Akio Yashiro

Akio Yashiro

was a Japanese composer, born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music Academy in 1945, where he studied composition under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Yujiro Ikeuchi, Akira Ifukube, and Tomojiro Ikenouchi, and piano under Noboru Toyomasu, Leonid Kreutzer, and Kiyo Kawakami...

, and Teizo Matsumura

Teizo Matsumura

Teizo Matsumura was a Japanese composer and poet.Orphaned and suffering from tuberculosis, during his recovery in the early 1950s he began to write both haiku and music. He studied with Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He was influenced by Ravel and Stravinsky, but also Asian traditions...

, and graduated with a Master of Music degree in composition in 1975 and a Master of Music in and musicology

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

 and solfeggio in 1978. After completing her studies, she worked as a music teacher and composer.

Works

Selected works include:

• Autumn Mist for flute or shakuhachi and guitar(1984)
• Imagery for piano (1987)
• Nightfall, flute and guitar concertino (1985)

Her music has been recorded and issued on media, including:

• Windows: Selected Piano Works by Contemporary Japanese Composers Label: Jasrac, ASIN: B000MP8IXE
• Masayuki Koga/Douglas Hensley - Autumn Mist (1986) Cassette: Fortuna Records