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Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2010-02-09 13:21

Hello,

For a series of concerts next season in Japan, I am looking for pieces by living Japanese composers.

Instrumentation should be clarinet with any/all of the following:
soprano, violin, cello, shakuhachi, piano.

Solo clarinet pieces are also welcome.

Any composer names or information on pieces would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Tom Piercy

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: mrn
Date: 2010-02-09 14:53

The Japanese composers I am primarily familiar with (Toru Takemitsu, Akira Ikufube, and Fumio Hayasaka) are all deceased.

However, you might try this resource:

http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/music/musichbl.html

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-02-09 15:15

Start the concert with the piece "Resurrection" then follow with the suggestions from mrn

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: Ed
Date: 2010-02-09 15:47

Check out Takahashi Yoshimatsu's "Four Pieces in Bird Shape" for clarinet and piano. Very exciting and effective work.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/t-yoshimatsu/

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: liam_hockley
Date: 2010-02-09 19:55

Try the Joji Yuasa "Clarinet Solitude".

-Liam

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2010-02-09 21:13

Here are some works that have been recorded. I don't know whether all of these composers are still living or how available the sheet music is.

Toshio Hosokawa: Vertical Time Study I (Clarinet, Cello, Piano)

Noriasu Tanaka:
Fragment II (Violin, Clarinet, Cello, Piano)
An Illusion: Clarinet Piano

Clarinet and Piano (from recordings by Shuhei Isobe

Fumio Yasuda: A Piece Chord Progression of Bill Evans
Keiko Fujiie: 2 Etudes
Yayoi Kitazume: Clarinet Sonata
Shuhei Isobe: Elegy

Tanosaki-Richards Duo, "New Music for Clarinet and Piano by Japanese Composers"

Honma: Junction III
Fujieda: Kyrie Resounded (A-E)
Matshshita: Kochi II
Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II
Matsuo: Distraction

Best regards,
jnk

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: skygardener
Date: 2010-02-10 10:08

You can try contacting the Japanese Composers Association
http://www.jacompa.or.jp/
jacompa@mtd.biglobe.ne.jp
Zen-On Publications is one of the main publishers for "serious" music by modern Japanese composers.
http://www.zen-on.co.jp/cms/docs/rental/gaikokutop.html
http://www.zen-on.co.jp/cms/docs/export.html
Finally, the Japan Clarinet Society
The English email is jcs.EO@jp‐clarinet.org

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Re: Looking for pieces by living Japanese composers

Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2010-02-10 15:33

Thanks for the info so far.

Hi Skygardener,
Thanks for the links. Done all that, and am a member of JCS.
DO you have any specific recommendations of pieces you're heard or played?

Keep the suggestions coming.
Thanks,

Tom Piercy

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