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Composer

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Yasuraoka studied with composers Teruyuki Noda (野田暉行) and Akira Miyoshi

Akira Miyoshi

Akira Miyoshi is a Japanese composer.Miyoshi was a child prodigy on piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, and then at the Paris Conservatory with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun from 1955 to 1957. He was...

 graduating Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984 with a Masters degree in music composition. He has received several awards and distinctions including the 1st Prize in Composition at the Music Competition of Japan (日本音楽コンクール) in 1980 and the 1982 Japan Symphony Foundation Composition Award for his Symphony. He was recipient of the 1994 Kenzo Nakajima Music Award (中島健蔵音楽賞).

In 1985, Yasuraoka organized Art Respirant, a chamber orchestra of young performing artists and composers.

Currently Yasuraoka is professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music

Toho Gakuen School of Music

is a private conservatoire located in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.-History:Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Kudan as a music school for children, and two years later opened the Toho High School of Music, to provide quality musical education to teenage girls. 1955 saw the establishment of the Junior...

 and Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a member of the 21st Century Music Association (21世紀音楽の会) and a director of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (日本現代音楽協会).

Selected works

The works of Yasuraoka are published by the Japan Federation of Composers, Zen-On Music

Zen-On Music Company Ltd

is a music publishing company based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in Japan. Zen-On publishes sheet music for sale and rental, including orchestral scores, band and wind ensemble music, solo works and contemporary works, such as Frederic Rzewski's "People United ..." The company was founded in 1931.Zen-On are...

, Ongaku-no-tomo Sha and Tokyo Academia Music.
Orchestra

• Symphony (1982)

Concertante

• Métamorphose concertante (協奏的変容) for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1991)
• Concerto Grosso No.1 "Animatori" (1993) for Viola and Orchestra (1995–1996)
• Antiphon for 25 Solo Strings (1996)

Chamber music

• Capriccio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (1980)
• Projection for Violin and Piano (1984)
• Offrande (オフランド, Offering) for Viola Solo (1990) for Solo Percussion (1992)
• Aria for Violin Solo (1992)
• Melodia (メロディア) for 4 Flutes (1993)
• Passaggio, Concertino for Marimba and 9 Instruments (1997) for Harp Solo (2000)
• Aria Scomposta for Violin and Piano (2005)

Vocal

• Discantus (ディスカントゥス), Vocalise for Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano (1994)

External links

• Akio Yasuraoka profile at Tokyo University of the Arts
• Art Respirant