Shigeru Kanno

Shigeru Kanno (Japanese菅 野 茂, Kanno Shigeru; May 3, 1959 in Fukushima, Japan), Shigeru Kan -no own notation, is a Japanese conductor and composer.

He studied in Tokyo and Stuttgart musicology and music theory. In addition to his main instrument, the piano, he plays the organ, violin, cello, drums and lyre.

Since 1975 he conducted for four years, a brass band and an intern in 1981 at the Japan Philharmonic. From 1980 to 1984 he studied music in Tokyo and came from 1982 as a pianist with works of new music in appearance ( and Others Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen).

Shigeru Kanno has lived in Europe since 1986. In addition to further studies at the Stuttgart Academy of Music from 1987 to 1992, he conducted since many orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Stuttgart, the Mecklenburg State Orchestra and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. He was a conductor for other European orchestras in Portugal, Italy and Uzbekistan.

Shigeru Kanno has composed more than 304 works to date. It prefers very large orchestra and writes works of often very long performance life.

His repertoire includes more than 150 operas.

He currently works as a freelance composer and conductor, church musician in the Westerwald. He is famous as a conductor for facilitating specialty.

Awards

• 58 international awards for composition and orchestral conducting, fellowships, including