Yoshiaki Onishi
Encyclopedia
is a composer, conductor, and a clarinetist. He has attended Columbia University
, Yale University
, and University of the Pacific, studying with Fabien Lévy
, Martin Bresnick
, Aaron Jay Kernis
, Michael Klingbeil, Robert Coburn, and François Rose. He received his clarinet training from Patricia Shands.
His works have been commissioned by performers and organizations including Mayumi Miyata
, and Norfolk and Lucerne Festivals, and have been performed in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, and University of the Pacific, studying with Fabien Lévy
Fabien Lévy
-Biography:Lévy was born in Paris, France. After having been a jazz pianist, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey, orchestration with Marc-André Dalbavie and ethnomusicology with Gilles Leothaud at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 2000. In 2001, he went to Berlin on the DAAD Artist...
, Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick
Martin Bresnick is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music.-Education and early career:Bresnick was born and raised in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and Art. He was educated at the University of Hartford ,...
, Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Jay Kernis is an American composer and professor at the Yale School of Music.-Biography:Aaron Jay Kernis is Jewish, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University .,Notable works include the...
, Michael Klingbeil, Robert Coburn, and François Rose. He received his clarinet training from Patricia Shands.
His works have been commissioned by performers and organizations including Mayumi Miyata
Mayumi Miyata
is a Japanese player of the shō, a traditional Japanese mouth organ. She is the most widely recorded and best internationally known soloist on this instrument.She is a graduate of the Kunitachi College of Music, where she majored in piano...
, and Norfolk and Lucerne Festivals, and have been performed in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Works
The following is a partial list of works.- Tu n'y trouveras que du vent I (2008) for Alto Flute, Trumpet and Violoncello
- Tu n'y trouveras que du vent II (2008) for Ryûteki, Hichiriki and Shô
- Wound Sky (2008) for 11 musicians
- Vague II «molto ritardando» (2008) for 36 instrumentalists
- Marche du Supplice (2007) for 12 percussionists
- Vague I (2007) two miniatures for 13 instrumentalists (Ligeti Kammerkonzert formation)
- ref. (2006-7) for orchestra
- Lost Geometry (2006) (piece III of Ventiform) for 41 musicians
- West Strophe (2006) for wind ensemble
- Sigla (2006) for twelve percussionists
- ...from azure to indigo... (2006) for soprano, percussion (one player) and shô