Kan Ishii

Kan Ishii (Japanese石井 歓; born March 30, 1921 in Tokyo, † November 24, 2009 in Yokohama ) was a Japanese composer.

The son of the dancer Baku Ishii played piano in the dance troupe his father. He studied from 1939 to 1943 at the Musashino School of Music and was a student of Ikenouchi Tomojiro. After his training in Japan, he was from 1952 to 1954 student of Carl Orff in Munich.

Until 1956, he taught at the music school Toho Gakuen. In 1958 he completed his training with Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer. From 1966 to 1986 he taught at the Art Academy of Nagoya.

He composed six operas and an operetta, three ballets, a symphonic poem, chamber music, choral and solo songs and film scores. His brother Maki Ishii was known as a composer.

Swell

• Don Michael Rendel: The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd edition, Harvard University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780674000841, p 328
• Europe Publications: International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 19th revised edition, Routledge, 2003, ISBN 9781857431742 page 365
• Kan Ishii at the Internet Movie Database (English)

• Japanese composer
• Japanese
• Born 1921
• Died in 2009
• Man