Makiko Kinoshita
Makiko Kinoshita (木下 牧子, Kinoshita Makiko, born 1956) is a Japanese composer. She was born in Tokyo, and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts.[1][2]
Honors and awards
[edit]- First prize, Music Competition of Japan
- Outstanding Composition Award, Japan Symphony Foundation
- Mitsubishi Trust Art and Cultural Foundation award (2003)
Works
[edit]Kinoshita is known in Japan for choral music, but writes for orchestra and chamber ensemble, and instruments, as well. Selected works include:
- Koten for orchestra
- Fantasy, for orchestra
- Aura, for Orchestra
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Opera)
- Abyss of Night (for orchestra)
- Sinfonietta (for Strings)
- Gothic (for wind band)
- Rain (for mandolin orchestra)
- Percussion Concerto (for Percussion solo & percussion ensemble)
- The Trembling Moon (for Percussion ensemble)
- Twisting Landscapes (for Clarinet, Violin and Piano)
- A Circuit of Dreams (for Piano)
- Jashumon-Hikyoku (for mixed voices and orchestra)
- Blue (for female voices and percussion)
- Nirvana (vocal & piano)
- Circuit of Dream (piano suite)[3]
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- The Trembling Moon, (chamber music / ALM Records)
- Jashumon-Hikyoku (chorus and orchestra / Fontec)
- Blessing (chorus without accompaniment / Japan Traditional Cultures Foundation)
- Tsuyoshi Mihara Sings Makiko Kinoshita (lied album / Fontec)
References
[edit]- ^ "Makiko Kinoshita official website". Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- ^ Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies. Gale Group. 2001.
External links
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Categories:
- 1956 births
- 20th-century Japanese classical composers
- 20th-century Japanese musicians
- 21st-century Japanese classical composers
- 21st-century Japanese musicians
- Japanese women classical composers
- Japanese music educators
- Japanese women music educators
- Living people
- 20th-century Japanese educators
- 21st-century Japanese educators
- 20th-century Japanese women composers
- 21st-century Japanese women composers
- 20th-century Japanese women educators
- 21st-century Japanese women educators