Rika Ishige

Rika Ishige (b. 1982, Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese composer and educator.

Ishige studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in composition. Ishige studied composition with Atsutada Otaka, Yoshiki Miyamoto and Hiroshi Sato.

She currently composes and arranges for wind band and orchestra, Anime, TV and movies. Her acclaimed work Muta in Concert (saxophone and wind orchestra, 2004) commissioned by Masahiro Tamura.

Ishige currently teaches at Makuhari Sohgoh High School in Chiba, Japan.

Biography taken from Wikipedia.