Nagako Konishi is a Japanese

Japanese people

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 composer. She was born in Agematsu, Nagano, and graduated from Tokyo

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 National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1971. She continued her education at the University of California

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 at Berkeley

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and served as head of the Japan Federation of Women Composers. She won 1st Prize for Composition in the All-Japan Chorus League, 1971.

Works

Selected works include:

• The Memory from the Wind for 2 Recorders (1990)
• For the sea border for solo piano
• Unasaka e for solo piano
• Indigo Sky for organ
• Misty poem for alto flute and harp
• Away the White (1990)
• Edge of Sea (2004)
• Lamentation for clarinet, piano
• Poetry of Autumn
• Ballade “Love of Melfa”
• Robin Hood Fantasy two pianos
• Icicles