YoshirÅ Irino
Yoshirō Irino (Japanese入 野 义 朗, Irino Yoshirō; born November 13, 1921 in Vladivostok, Russia, † June 28, 1980 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese composer.
Life
Irino studied economics at the University of Tokyo and studied composition with Moroi Saburō. According to studies, he worked at the Bank of Tokyo. In 1946 he founded the Japanese composers group New voice. He attended the Toho Gakuen 1955 School of Music, where he became a professor later. He won prizes in Asia and Europe. In 1963 he received a commission to compose an orchestral work by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. In 1973 he was a founding member of the Asian Composers League. He was a juror at the Mainichi Music Concours, Auditor of JASRAC, Vice President of the Japan Federation of Composers and board member of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music ( Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music ).
He composed more than one hundred works, including a television opera, an overture, a symphony and a Sinfonietta, a double concerto for violin and piano and chamber works.
In his honor the ACL Yoshiro Irino Memorial Prize and the Irino Award is awarded.
Works
Prices
- Mainichi Music Award (1948, 1949, 1950, 1954)
- Odaka Prize (1958, 1959)