Makoto Shinohara

Makoto Shinohara(Tiêu nguyên chân,Shinohara Makoto,December 10, 1931 – March 3, 2024)was a Japanese composer.

Biography

Born inOsaka,Japan, Shinohara studied at theTokyo University of the Artsfrom 1952 to 1954, studying composition withTomojirō Ikenouchi,piano withKazuko Yasukawa[ja],and conducting withAkeo WatanabeandKurt Wöss.From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris withTony Aubin,Olivier Messiaen,Simone Plé-Caussade,Pierre Revel andLouis Fourestier.From 1962 to 1964 he studied at theHochschule für Musik Münchenand at theSiemens-Studio für elektronische Musik[de];following this he studied withBernd Alois ZimmermannandGottfried Michael Koenigat theRheinische Musikschule[de]in Cologne and then withKarlheinz Stockhausenfrom 1964 to 1965. He held a scholarship from theGerman Academic Exchange Servicein 1966 and 1967 and won a scholarship from the Italian government in 1969. In 1971, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize from theColumbia Princeton Electronic Music Centerand in 1978 won a scholarship from the Dutch government.

Shinohara worked withelectronic musicat theInstitute of Sonologyin Utrecht, at the electronic studio at theTechnische Universität Berlin,at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York (1971–72) and at StudioNHK(Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai) in Tokyo. In 1978 Shinohara was a visiting professor of composition atMcGill UniversityinMontreal,Canada.^[1]

From the 1970s onwards, he was best known for combining Western and traditional Japanese music, as well as versatile experimentation with Western acoustic and electronic music.^[2]

Shinohara died of stomach cancer on 3 March 2024, at the age of 92.^[3]

Works

Orchestral

1975Egalisationfor 24 instruments (piccolo, flute, alto flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, celesta, cembalo, harp, guitar, vibraphone, marimba, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and double bass)
1970Visionsfor 3 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 6 percussion, harp, celesta, 24 violins, 8 violas, 8 cellos, 4 double basses
1975Visions II
c1977Liberationfor 20 string instruments
1992Yumeji (Ways of Dreams)for an orchestra of Japanese and Western instruments and mixed choir
Solitude pour orchestra

Wind orchestra

1982/1985Play for Nine Wind Instruments(flute, alto flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and trombone)

Chamber music

1958Sonatafor violin and piano
1. Allegro moderato
2. Lento
3. Allegro brutale
1960Obsessionfor oboe and piano
c1960Kassougafor flute and piano
1968Fragmentefor tenor recorder
1970Reflexionfor solo oboe
1983/1993Turnsfor violin andkoto
1984Tabiyuki (On travel)for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass)
1986/1990Evolutionfor solo cello
1990Cooperationfor 8 traditional Japanese and 8 Western instruments (English horn, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, and cello)
1993Situationsfor alto saxophone and digital keyboard
2005Turnsfor violin and koto
Consonancefor flute, horn, vibraphone, marimba, harp and cello
Relationsfor flute and piano

Percussion ensemble

1962Alternance

Keyboard

Elevationfor organ
1963/1969Tendence pour piano
1996Undulation Afor piano
The Bear who saw the Seafor two pianos

Music for traditional Japanese instruments

1972Tatuyai (Fluctuation)for koto, percussion, and singer
1972Tuyatai (Fluctuation)for sangen
1973Kyudo A (In quest of enlightenment)forshakuhachi
1973Kyudo B for shakuhachi and harp
1981Jushichigen-no-Umare (Birth of the bass koto)for 17-Gen
1981Nagare for Shamisenfor shamisen, sangen, kin and gongs

Electronic music

1966Memoires4-channel electronic composition composed at theInstitute of Sonologyin Utrecht
1974Broadcasting
1979City Visitfor 4-channel tape
1980Passage for bass flute and stereophony
To Rain and Windfor koto, percussion and live electronics
Personnage

References

Sources

Herd, Judith. 2001. "Shinohara, Makoto."The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,second edition, edited byStanley SadieandJohn Tyrrell.London: Macmillan.
Rea, John. 2008. "Better Than a Thousand Days of Diligent Study Is One Day with a Great Teacher: Visiting Foreign Artist Residencies at McGill's Faculty of Music, 1975–1981". InCompositional Crossroads: Music, McGill, Montreal,edited by Eleanor V. Stubley. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 0-7735-3278-1

External Links

Makoto Shinoharadiscography atDiscogs
Makoto ShinoharaatIMDb

[FOOTNOTERea2008-1] Rea 2008.

[FOOTNOTEHerd2001-2] Herd 2001.

[3] Người soạn nhạc の tiêu nguyên chân さん chết đi, ９２ tuế…メシアンやシュトックハウゼンに học thầy(in Japanese)

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