Yuji Takahashi

born on 21/9/1938

Yuji Takahashi

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Yji Takahashi ( Takahashi Yji?, born September 21, 1938) is a Japanese composer, performer, pianist and author.

Studied under Roh Ogura and Minao Shibata at the Toho Gakuen School of Music.[1] In 1960, he made his debut as a pianist by performing Bo Nilsson's Quantitaten. He lived in Europe from 1963 to 1966 where he worked with Iannis Xenakis. He gave the first performance of Xenakis' Herma and Eonta. In 2006 he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

His sister is a pianist, Aki Takahashi.

Selected List of Works

  • Time (tape)
  • Chromamorphe I (fl, hrn in F, trp in C, trb, vib, vn, cb)
  • Chromamorphe II (pf)
  • 6 stoicheia (4vn)
  • Rosace I (amplified vn)
  • Rosace II (pf)
  • Operation Euler (2 or 3ob)
  • Metathesis I (pf)
  • Manangali: didactic piece for women's chorus
  • Three poems of Mao Tse-Tung (pf or vo[cho], pf)
  • Chained Hands in Prayer (pf)
  • For you I Sing This Song (cl in B flat, vn, vc, pf) (1976)
  • Ji(t) (fl, pf)
  • Sieben Rosen hat ein Strauch (vn)
  • Kwanju, May 1980 (pf)
  • The Pain of the Wandering Wind (pf)
  • Like a Water-Buffalo (acc)
  • Turn the Corner of the Morning (perc)
  • Thread Cogwheels (koto, orch)
  • Insomnia (vn, hp)
  • Bed Story (vo, koto)
  • Sea of Mud (cho, perc)
  • Like Swans Leaving the Lake () for Viola and Accordion (1995)
  • Mimi no ho (), "Sail of the Ears" for Sh, Viola and Reciter (1994)
  • Viola of Dmitri Shostakovich () for Viola Solo (2002)

References

  1. Yuji Takahashi. Retrieved on [[16 August 2009]].

See also

  • Japanese literature

Sources

External links

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