Japanese Music in Shanghai: ICAS 2005

Time: 7 July, 2005

This programme consists of one concert and of one lecture/presentation. The presence of a traditional instrument, the mouth-organ shoo (Chinese sheng), bears witness to the growing interest on the part of many contemporary composeres for the world of traditional music.

The program features a choice of works by two of the most important composers active since the post-war period, Yuasa Joji (b.1929) and Hosokawa Toshio (b.1955), and by four younger composers whose work has been extremely well received in international music festivals in recent years, Keiko Harada (b. 1968), Hiroyuki Itoh (b.1963), Mosato Mochizuki (b.1969), and Hiroyuki Yamamoto (b.1967).

The concert is organised by the musicologist Luciana Galliano, one of the leading world experts in contemporary Japanese music, and will be introduced by a talk by Galliano and by the composer Itoh Hiroyuki.

Luciana Galliano
Musicologist and scholar in musical aesthetics, Luciana Galliano combines a prevailing competence in contemporary music with a strong interest for Asian music. She has lived for many years in Japan (1987-1991) researching traditional and modern Japanese music. She is the director of the Music Section for CESMEO (International Institute for Advanced Asian Studies) and teaches Music Anthropology (East Asian Music) at Venice University Ca’ Foscari. In 2002, she published Yoogaku: A History of Japanese Music in the 20th Century (Scarecrow Press). Currently, she is a fellow of the Nichibunken (Kyoto).

Program
Keiko Harada, Third Ear Deaf II on shoo and recorder
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Forma on piano
Toshio Hosokawa, Birds Fragments IIIb on shoo and great bass recorder
Joji Yuasa, To the Genesis on shoo solo
Hiroyuki Itoh, Salamander II on soprano recorder solo
Misato Mochizuki, Intermezzi on flute and piano

Interpreters
Mayumi Miyata: Shoo
Tosiya Suzuki: Recorder
Ken-ichi Nakagawa: Piano
Dogen Kinowaki: Flute