is a Japanese composer.

Biography

Born in

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, Japan, Shinohara studied at the

Tokyo University of the Arts or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, scul ...

from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, piano with , and conducting with

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and

Kurt Wöss Kurt Wöss also Kurt Woess (2 May 1914, in Linz, Austria – 4 December 1987, in Dresden, Germany) was an Austrian conductor and musicologist. Wöss was principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1951 to 1954. From 1956 to 1959 ...

. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with

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, Olivier Messiaen, Simone Plé-Caussade, Pierre Revel and Louis Fourrestier. From 1962 to 1964 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik München and at the ; following this he studied with

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and

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at the in Cologne and then with

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from 1964–65. He held a scholarship from the

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in 1966 and 1967 and won a scholarship from the Italian government in 1969. In 1971, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize from the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center and in 1978 won a scholarship from the Dutch government. He worked with

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at the

Institute of Sonology The Institute of Sonology is an education and research center for electronic music and computer music based at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands. Background The institute was founded at Utrecht University in 1960 under the n ...

in Utrecht, at the electronic studio at the

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

, at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York (1971–72) and at Studio

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(Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai) in Tokyo. In 1978 Shinohara was a visiting professor of composition at

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, Canada. Since the 1970s, he has been best known for combining Western and traditional Japanese musics, as well as versatile experimentation with Western acoustic and electronic music.

Works

Orchestral

* 1975 ''Egalisation'' for 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) * 1970 ''Visions'' for 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 * 1975 ''Visions II'' *1977 '' Liberation '' for 20 string instruments * 1992 ''Yumeji (Ways of Dreams)'' for an orchestra of Japanese and Western instruments and mixed choir * ''Solitude pour orchestra''

Wind orchestra

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

Chamber music

* 1958 ''Sonata'' for violin and piano *# Allegro moderato *# Lento *# Allegro brutale * 1960 ''Obsession'' for oboe and piano *1960 ''Kassouga'' for flute and piano * 1968 ''Fragmente'' for tenor recorder * 1970 ''Reflexion'' for solo oboe * 1983/1993 ''Turns'' for violin and

koto Koto may refer to: * Koto (band), an Italian synth pop group * Koto (instrument), a Japanese musical instrument * Koto (kana), a ligature of two Japanese katakana * Koto (traditional clothing), a traditional dress made by Afro-Surinamese women * K ...

* 1984 ''Tabiyuki (On travel)'' for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello and double bass) * 1986/1990 ''Evolution'' for solo cello * 1990 ''Cooperation'' for 8 traditional Japanese and 8 Western instruments (English horn, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, and cello) * 1993 ''Situations'' for alto saxophone and digital keyboard * 2005 ''Turns'' for violin and koto * ''Consonance'' for flute, horn, vibraphone, marimba, harp and cello * ''Relations'' for flute and piano

Percussion ensemble

* 1962 ''Alternance''

Keyboard

* ''Elevation'' for organ * 1963/1969 ''Tendence pour piano'' * 1996 ''Undulation A'' for piano * ''The Bear who saw the Sea'' for two pianos

Music for traditional Japanese instruments

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

Electronic music

* 1966 ''Memoires'' 4-channel electronic composition composed at the

in Utrecht * 1974 ''Broadcasting'' * 1979 ''City Visit'' for 4-channel tape * 1980 ''Passage for bass flute and stereophony'' * ''To Rain and Wind'' for koto, percussion and live electronics * ''Personnage''

References

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