Hiro Fujikake

Hiroyuki Fujikake (born 1949), also known by his pen name Hiro Fujikake, is a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player.

Life

Hiro Fujikake was born in 1949 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1964 he began his musical studies at the High School. Later he attended the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Aichi where he studied composition for four years to complete his bachelor's degree. He studied a further three years to get the Master of Music at the same university.

Fujikake has won numerous awards for his compositions.
Such as the Ongaku-no-tomo Composition Prize for "Two Poems for Chorus" in 1970.
The second prize of the NHK Mainichi Music Competition for "Threnody" in 1974.
The All Japan Band Association's Test Piece Composition Prize for "Concertino Overture" in 1975.
The Japan Mandolin Union Composition Prize for "Pastoral Fantasy" in 1975.
The first prize at the Sasagawa competition for "Nostalgic Rhapsody" in 1975 and "Chaconne" in 1976.
Japan Symphony Foundation's Composition Prize for "The Song of Spring" in 1990.
The Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium for the symphonic work "The Rope Crest" in 1977.

His compositional artwork is characterized by a wide variety of symphonies to operas on ballets, musicals, works for concert band, mandolin orchestra and traditional Japanese instruments, working for the radio, the television, film and for special occasions such as exhibitions such as World Design Exhibition in 1989 in Nagoya.

Besides composer he is also a performing artist of the synthesizer in his solo band named as "Solo Orchestra", which is a synthesizer orchestra directed and controlled by Hiro Fujikake alone assisted by computer. But usually he is accompanied by Japanese taiko drummers, singer, chorus, violinist, flutist, mandolin players, and musicians on Chinese musical instruments, etc.

Along with the flutist James Galway, he has recorded two CDs; the CD ''The Enchanted Forest'' was recorded in 1990 in the United States spent five months in the Billboard Top 10 of the Classical crossover section. He is a member of the Project Committee of the Nippon Music Foundation.

Style

His works present a union of Eastern and Western music. Sometimes he integrates jazz and rock music. Natural elements (such as water sounds) also appear in his works.

Compositions

Orchestral works

* 1974 ''Threnody''
* 1977 ''The Rope Crest''
* 1988 ''The Spirit of Nature ''
* 1989 ''Hiroshima Spirit – As The Life of the New World''
* 1990 ''The Song of Spring''
* 1993 ''Gifu'', a symphony for orchestra with Japanese taiko drums
* 2003 ''Spring Sprung''
* 2004 ''Izumo,'' a symphony for orchestra and synthesizer
*# Andante Moderato Maestoso "Beginning"
*# Andante cantabile con espressione "Love and Love"
*# Allegro con fuoco "Encounter"
*# Moderato Maestoso "Soar to the World"

Works for band

* 1975 ''Concertino Overture''
* 1975 ''Nostalgic Rhapsody''
* 1976 ''Concert Overture''
* 1976 ''Chaconne''
* 1983 ''Hakuho Rhapsody''
* 1991 ''Rock'n March''
* ''(Hakuhou Rhapsody)''

Ballets

* 1988 ''Ah! Nomugi Toge''

Musicals

* 1995 ''A Tale of Little Lives''
* 1999 ''Bunna''

Choral music

* 1970 ''Two Poems for Chorus''
* 1989 ''Hiroshima Spirit – As The Life of the New World'' for mixed choir, flute solo and orchestra

Works for guitar

* 1999 ''Capriccio Sakura'' for guitar orchestra

Works for mandolin orchestra

* 1974 ''Merchen No.1''
* 1975, ''Pastoral Fantasy''
* 1976 ''Merchen No.2''
* 1976 ''Barades 8''
* 1977 ''Jhongara pour l'orchester de Mandolins''
* 1978 ''Stabat Mater''
* 1978 ''Poetical 2 pieces''
* 1979 ''Serenade No.1''
* 1979 ''Serenade No.2''
* 1981 ''Grand Chaconne''
* 1981 ''Ode for Spring''
* 1982 ''Goh: A Chance Meeting'' for mandolin orchestra and Japanese taiko drums
* 1983 ''Variations on "The Moon over the Ruined Castle"''
* 1984 ''Ode for Dawn''
* 1989 ''Song of Lives''
* 1990 ''Tre Pick Prelude''
* 1990 ''Angel Chorus''
* 1994 ''Viva! Mandolin''
* 1995 ''Muse Concerto''
* 1995 ''Fantasia Kyushu''
* 1996 ''Stars concerto''
* 1998 ''Calling from Underground''
* 1999 ''Capriccio Sakura''
* 1999 ''Forest Symphony''
* 1999 ''Aqua Rhythm''
* 2001 ''Suite from the opera "Song of Papermaking Girls"''
* ''Suite from the opera "Sun Legend (The Vanished Sun)"''

Electronic music

* 1979 ''Galactic Symphony''
*# Prelude
*# Allegro
*# Adagio
*# Allegro Scherzando
*# Passacaglia
* 1984 ''Romance''
* 1989 ''Synthesizer Fantasy''
* 1992 ''Lotusland in the Sky'' for orchestra (keyboard and computer)
* 1998 ''Full Blooming'' for orchestra (keyboard and computer)
* 2000 ''Wings to Eternity'' for orchestra (keyboard and computer)

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1949 births
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Japanese composers
20th-century Japanese male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century Japanese composers
21st-century Japanese male musicians
Japanese classical composers
Japanese electronic musicians
Japanese male classical composers
Living people
Musicians from Gifu Prefecture
Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts alumni
Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition