Jun Nagao
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Jun Nagao (born 1964) is a Japanese
composer
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Nagao began his career as an arranger for orchestras and wind ensembles. Today he is known for his many original compositions including several works for video games and films. He won the 2000 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award for his work entitled L'été-L'oubli rouge.
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The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
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Composer
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Nagao began his career as an arranger for orchestras and wind ensembles. Today he is known for his many original compositions including several works for video games and films. He won the 2000 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award for his work entitled L'été-L'oubli rouge.
Wind ensemble works
- 1997 Symphony
- 1997 Reminiscence
- 1998 Die Heldenzeit Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind ensemble
- 1998 The Other Garden Concerto for Euphonium and Wind ensemble
- 2000 Wavetops
- 2001 Souten no shizuku
- 2002 La saison lumineuse du vent vert
- 2003 Fluttering Maple Leaves
- 2005 Kompeki no Hatou
- 2005 Saiwai no Ryu(Der Glücksdrache)
- 2007 Auspicious Snow
- 2007 The Everlasting Trunk
- 2008 By Gathering Together
- 2008 Un morceau du ciel
- 2008 Sing with Sincerity
- 2008 Triton
- Four Seasons of Trouvère for saxophone and wind ensemble
Chamber music
- 2002 Quatuor de Saxophones
- 2003 Your Kindness for alto saxophone and piano
- 2004 The Planets by Trouvere for saxophone quartet
- Dawn Passage for four clarinets
- Futarishizuka for solo flute
- Icare for trombone and piano
- Palsifaliana for trombone and piano
- Purity for solo flute
- Rhapsody on "Carmen" by Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
for saxophone quartet and piano
Video game music
- 1995 Romance of the Three KingdomsRomance of the Three KingdomsRomance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a Chinese historical novel based on the events in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 and ending with the reunification of the land in...
IV - Wall of Fire originally titled San goku shi IV
External links
- Bravo Music (Jun Nagao's Music Publisher)
- Internet Movie Database