Akira Miyoshi

Akira Miyoshi (Japanese三 善 晃Miyoshi Akira, born January 10, 1933, Suginami, Tokyo Prefecture, † October 4, 2013 ) was a Japanese composer.

Career

Miyoshi studied for four years in French literature at the University of Tokyo. In 1955 he was awarded a scholarship and moved to the Conservatoire Superieure in Paris, where he studied composition with Henri Dutilleux. He graduated after his return to Japan in 1957.

In 1953 he won with his Sonata for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano First Prize at the 22nd Japan Music Contest. Numerous works have been provided in Japan and Europe with awards and prizes, he received, inter alia, the 1954 Art Festival Promotion Prize of the Agency of Cultural Affairs, the Italia Prize, the 3rd Otaka Prize and the palm Académique the French government. From 1954 to 1995 he was president of the Toho Gakuen University. Later, he was Manager of the Tokyo Metropolitan Festival Hall.

In March 1999, his first opera, Faraway Sail on Hasekura Tsunenaga with great success premiere. This work was awarded the Prize of the Suntory Music Foundation.

Works

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind

Chamber Music

Piano music

Music for Guitar

Music for Percussion

Music for traditional Japanese instruments

Singing

Choral music

Stage Works

Film Music

• Anne of Green Gables

Books and writings

• Akira Miyoshi: The Silent Beat of Japanese Music in Japanese Essences ( Japan as I see it - 3) Shichi Yamamoto, Kenichi Fukui et al, Tokyo.. In 1985.
• Yoko Narasaki: Toru Takemitsu to Akira Miyoshi no Sakkyoku Yoshiki (The Style of Composition of Toru Takemitsu and Akira Miyoshi ). Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomosha, 1994.