and recording schedule, Abe has been a lecturer, then professor, at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo since 1970. She was the first woman to be inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1993. Abe uses the YM-6100 Marimba. This modern concert marimba design, with five octaves of range, was developed with Abe in partnership with the Yamaha Corporation over a fifteen-year period (from 1969 to 1984). In addition to performing, she is a composer. Her music is published primarily by Xebec Music Publishing, Tokyo and Schott, Japan. In May 2021, Abe was one of 10 new members elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, alongside Marika Field, Katarina Karnéus, Jonas Knutsson, Sten Sandell, Đuro Živković, Richard Sparks, Giancarlo Andretta, Stefan Dohr, and Quincy Jones. References J. Michele Edwards. "Keiko Abe", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed February 14, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). Rebecca Kite. "Keiko Abe, A Virtuosic Life: Her Musical Career and the Development of the Concert Marimba", published 2007, GP Percussion TRAPS Magazine interview, Spring 2007: External links Keiko Abe's website 1937 births 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Japanese composers 20th-century women composers 21st-century classical composers 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century women composers Academic staff of Toho Gakuen School of Music Classical percussionists Japanese classical composers Japanese women classical composers Japanese percussionists Living people Marimbists Musicians from Tokyo Women in classical music Women marimbists Women percussionists 21st-century Japanese women musicians