Makoto Shinohara

Makoto Shinohara (Japanese筱 原 眞, Makoto Shinohara, born December 10, 1931 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer.

He completed studies from 1954 to 1960 at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Composition at Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woss, a scholarship from the French government at the Conservatoire National Superieur in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier Messiaen, Simone Plé - Caussade, Pierre Revel and Louis Fourrestier. 1960 to 1962 he held a scholarship of the Bavarian government in Munich to study at the Academy of Music and the Siemens Studio for Electronic Music, and at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne with Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gottfried Michael Koenig and at the Music Conservatory with Karlheinz Stockhausen. 1964-1966 he worked as an assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen. 1966 and 1967 he was awarded a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD). In 1969 he got a scholarship from the Italian Government and the 1971 Rockefeller Prize of the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, and finally in 1978 a grant from the Dutch government.

He also realized electronic compositions at the Institute of Sonology at the State University in Utrecht, at the electronic studio of the Technical University in Berlin, at the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York and at Studio NHK ( NHK ) in Tokyo. In 1983 he was chosen as the main composer of the Holland Festival. With Portrait concerts in Europe, the U.S. and Japan as well as numerous articles and seminars on his music as well as radio broadcasts he made not only attention, but they made him internationally known.

In 1978 he was appointed visiting professor at McGill University in Montreal. Today he lives in Utrecht and Tokyo.

Works

Works for Orchestra

Works for wind

Chamber Music

Works for Percussion Ensemble

Works for Organ

  • Elevation for Organ

Piano music

Music for traditional Japanese instruments

Electronic Music

  • Japanese composer
  • Composer ( brass bands )
  • Music teacher
  • Conductor
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1931
  • Man
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