Fumio Yasuda
Fumio Yasuda (* 1953 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese improvisation musician (piano) and composer .
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Yasuda studied at the Kunitachi College of Music; at the age of seventeen he began to compose. In the late 1970s he recorded the jazz album What in the Hideto Kanai quintet . Then he developed an interest in improvisation and played with guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi ; In 1983 the album Dislocation was created in a trio with Hiroshi Yamazaki . In the 1990s he played a first solo album as a pianist. He also worked several times with the National Philharmonic of Slovakia. In 1995 he began his cooperation with the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki , with whom he initially created Tokyo Comedy (performed in Vienna in 1997), Shijo (premiered in Hamburg in 1998) and Taipei - Summer in 1999 (1999 in Taipei).
Since 2006 Fumio Yasuda has worked with the singer Theo Bleckmann , with whom the albums Las Vegas Rhapsody , Berlin - Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile , Schumann's Favored Bar Songs and Mother Goose's Melodies were created for Winter & Winter . He also released the album Kakyoku there with Nobuyoshi Araki and the albums Charmed with Verdi , Schumann's Bar Music and (with Teodoro Anzellotti ) Heavenly Blue . In 2013, the piano solo album Fractured Silence was created in Munich . His chamber music album Forest (with Akimuse , Joachim Badenhorst and Nobuyoshi Ino ) was most recently released in 2019 .
His opera The Kastanienball premiered in Munich in 2004. Since 1999, numerous television and film scores have also been created . His compositions were also interpreted by Ernst Reijseger .
Web links
- Web presence with discography
- Fumio Yasuda at Allmusic (English)
- Fumio Yasuda at Discogs (English)
- Fumio Yasuda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yasuda, Fumio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese improvisation musician (piano) and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |