MUSIC FROM JAPAN COMPOSER PROFILE

Mr. Toshio Hosokawa

 
Birthplace:                            Hiroshima, Japan
 


Award:                                 First Prize (Rome)
                                       Valentino Bucchi Compet.
Year:                                  1980
Award:                                 Irino Prize
                                       Young Composers
Year:                                  1982
Award:                                 First Prize, Composition
                                       100th Ann. of Berlin Orch
Year:                                  1982
Award:                                 Arion Music Prize
                                       Tokyo
Year:                                  1985
Award:                                 Composition Prize
                                       Young Generation in Europ
Year:                                  1985
Award:                                 Kyoto Music Prize
Year:                                  1988
Award:                                 37th Otaka Prize
                                       "Ferne-Landschaft I"
Year:                                  1989
Award:                                 Energia Music Award
                                       Hiroshima
Year:                                  1995
Award:                                 Record Academy Prize
                                       "Per-Sonare" CD
Year:                                  1988
Award:                                 Rheingau Musikpreis
Year:                                  1998
Studies:                               Kunitachi College of Music
                                       Berlin Hochschule fur Musik
                                       Freiburg School of Music
Compositions on file:
Atem-Lied,1997
Ave Maria,1991
Ave Maris Stella,1991
Banka,1989
Bird Fragments I,1990
Bird Fragments III,1990
Bird Fragments IV,1991
Birds Fragments II,1990
Birds Fragments IIIb,1990
Cello Concerto in memory of Takemitsu,1997
Cloudscapes - Moon Night,1998
Dan-so,1984
Death and Resurrection,1989
Duo,1998
Ferne-Landschaft I for Orchestra,1987
Ferne-Landschaft II,1996
Ferne-Landschaft III,1996
Flute Concerto "Per-Sonare",1988
Fragmente I,1988
Fragmente II,1989
Fragmente III,1989
Fragments for Birds II,1990
Garten Lieder I,1995
Hajah,1984
Hiroshima Requiem I - Preludio "Night",1989
Hiroshima Requiem II - "Death & Resurrection",1989
Hiroshima Requiem III - "Dawn",1992
Im Tal der Zeit for String Quartet and Piano,1986
In die Tiefe der Zeit,1994
Interim,1994
Intermezzo,1991
Jenseits der Zeit...,1987
Landscape I,1992
Landscape II,1992
Landscape III,1993
Landscape IV,1993
Landscape V,1993
Landscape VI - Cloudscapes,1994
Manifestation,1981
Medea Fragments I,1996
Melodia,1979
Melodia II,1977
Memory,1996
Memory of the Sea,1998
Nacht Klange,1994
Neben dem Fluss,1982
New Seeds of Contemplation - Mandara,1995
Nocturne,1982
Pass into Silence,1983
Preludio,1982
Renka I,1986
Renka II,1987
Renka III,1990
Seascapes-Daybreak,1998
Seascapes-Night,1997
Seeds of Contemplation - Mandara,1986
Sen I,1984
Sen II,1986
Sen III,1988
Sen IV,1990
Sen V,1992
Sen VI,1993
Sen VII,1995
Silent Flowers,1998
Singing Trees-requiem for Takemitsu,1996
Slow Dance,1996
String Quartet No. 2 "Urbilder",1980
Super Flumina Babylonis,1995
Tenebrae,1993
Tokyo 1985,1985
Two Pieces,1993
Utsurohi,1986
Utsuroi Nagi,1995
Variations for wind ensemble,1994
Vertical Song I,1995
Vertical Song Ib,1995
Vertical Time Study,1992
Vertical Time Study II,1994
Vertical Time Study III,1994
Vision of Lear,1998
Voyage I,1997
Voyage II,1997
Voyage III,1997
Windscapes,1996
Winter Bird,1978