Dai Fujikura

Dai Fujikura ( Japanese 藤 倉 大 , Fujikura Dai ; born April 27, 1977 in Osaka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese composer .

Life

Dai Fujikura was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1977 and moved to London at the age of 15 to study with George Benjamin at King's College London and with Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music .

In 2005 he received a composition commission from the Lucerne Festival ; the orchestral work Stream State premiered under the direction of Pierre Boulez . Further performances in Germany, Austria, Italy and Japan followed in 2006. Dai Fujikura made her BBC Proms debut in August 2006 with Crushing Twister , a commissioned work by the BBC for the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles Hazlewood. In the same year the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed as part of the "Music Now" series.

Among the ensembles and orchestras, perform the works of Fujikura, include the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonia Orchestra , the Ensemble Modern , the London Sinfonietta, the recherche ensemble , the Klangforum Wien and the ensemble intercontemporain .

Interpreters of his music include Pierre Boulez , Péter Eötvös , Gustavo Dudamel , Susanna Mälkki , Jonathan Nott , Matthias Pintscher and the Arditti Quartet .

Dai Fujikura has received numerous prizes, including the International Vienna Composition Prize, the Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Composition Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society .

Since April 2014, Dai Fujikura has been composer-in-residence with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra for three years . In March 2015, his first opera Solaris based on Stanisław Lem was premiered at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées . The German premiere took place in May 2018 at the Augsburg Theater. His second opera Der Goldkäfer was premiered in March 2018 at the Theater Basel . Fujikura has announced its third large opera for 2020.

family

Fujikura lives in Forrest Hill in south London , is married and the father of their daughter Mina, after whom he also named a CD.

Awards

• 1998 Boris Blacher Prize
• 1st prize at the Serocki International Composers' Competition (1998)
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers' Award (1998)
• Royal Philharmonic Society's Composition Prize (2004)
• International Vienna Composition Prize (Claudio Abbado Composition Prize) (2005)
• Hindemith Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (2007)
• Special prize of the Giga Hertz Prize for Electronic Music 2008
• Otaka Prize for his work "secret forest" (2009)
• Akutagawa Composition Prize for his work "… as I am…" (2009)
• Kenzo Nakamura Award (2010)
• Leone d'argento per l'innovazione at the Venice Music Biennale (2017)

Compositions (selection)

Musical theater works

• Solaris Opera
• The gold beetle opera

Orchestral works

• Rare Gravity (2013) for orchestra
• Mina (2011/2012) for 5 soloists and orchestra
• Tocar y Luchar (2010) for orchestra
• Atom (2009) for orchestra
• Ampere (2008) for piano and orchestra
• Vast Ocean (2005) for orchestra and live electronics
• Stream State (2008) for orchestra
• Glorious Cloud (2016/17) for orchestra

Ensemble works

• Grasping (2011) for string orchestra
• ice (2009/2010) for ensemble
• Double bass concert (2009/2010) for double bass and chamber orchestra
• Phantom Splinter (2009) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and live electronics
• Frozen Heat (2008) for 13 musicians

Chamber music

• Minina (2013) for five instruments
• wind skein (2013) for oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon
• being as one (2009/2010) for soprano, bass clarinet and cello. Text: Harry Ross
• Phantom Splinter Lite (2009) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and electronic playback
• String Quartet No. 2 flare (2009/2010)

Web links

• Official website , accessed June 12, 2014
• Biography and catalog raisonné from Ricordi , accessed on June 12, 2014

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ academy.lucernefestival.ch. Retrieved June 12, 2014 . 
3. ↑ bbc.co.uk. Retrieved June 12, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} dso-berlin.de. Retrieved June 12, 2014 . 
5. ↑ opera-lausanne.ch. Retrieved June 12, 2014 . 
6. ↑ muenchener-biennale.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved June 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ ensembleinter.com. Retrieved June 12, 2014 . 
8. ↑ classicalmusicmagazine.org. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 26, 2014 ; accessed on June 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Solaris. (No longer available online.) Theatrechampselysees.fr, archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; Retrieved June 12, 2014 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ https://neuguitars.com/2017/09/20/interview-with-dai-fujikura-september-2017-on-neuguitars-blog/
11. ↑ https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/interview-dai-fujikura-classical-music-composer/
12. ↑ kairos-music.com. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 24, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
13. ↑ Leone d'argento . In: La Biennale di Venezia . April 18, 2017 ( labiennale.org [accessed January 8, 2018]).