Jōji Yuasa

Jōji Yuasa

Jōji Yuasa ( Japanese 湯 浅 譲 二 , Yuasa Jōji ; born August 12, 1929 in Kōriyama ) is a Japanese composer.

While preparing to study medicine at Keiō University in Tokyo , Yuasa met the composer Tōru Takemitsu and the musicologist Kuniharu Akiyama , and in 1952 he joined the Jikken-kobo , a musical experimental workshop , and from then on devoted himself to composition.

He has received scholarships and composition commissions at home and abroad. Among other things, he was composer in residence at the University of California, San Diego in 1976 , was accepted into the DAAD 's funding program and was a scholarship holder of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney (1980), the University of Toronto (1981) and the IRCAM ( 1987). He was guest composer at the Festival of the Arts of This Century (Hawaii 1970), the New Music Concerts (Toronto 1980), the Asia Pacific Festival (New Zealand 1984) and the Pacific Music Festival (Sapporo 1990) and lecturer at the Composers Workshop in Amsterdam ( 1984) and the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1988).

From 1981 to 1994 he was a professor at the University of California, San Diego , and then professor emeritus. In 1999 he was awarded the Japanese Academy of Arts Prize. In 2010 he was elected honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music ISCM .

Works

• Two Pastorals , 1952
• Three Score Set , 1953
• Serenade: chant pour "Do" , 1954
• Projection for Seven Players , 1955
• Cosmos Haptic , 1957
• Projection Topologic , 1959
• Aoi no Ue , 1961
• Projection Esemplastic for piano, 1962
• Interpenetration for two flutes, 1963
• Kansoku , 1964
• Icon on the Source of White Noise , 1967
• Projection for Cello and Piano , 1967
• Projection for Kotos and Orchestra , 1967
• Music for Space Projection , 1969
• Voices Comming , 1969
• Projection for String Quartet , 1970
• Triplicity for Contrabass , 1970
• Questions , 1971
• Utterance , 1971
• Inter-posi-play-tion I , 1971
• Chronoplastic for Orchestra , 1972
• On the Keyboard , 1972
• Performing poem "Calling Together" , 1973
• Inter-Posi-Play-Tion II , 1973
• Projection Esemplastic for White Noise , 1974
• Projection on Basho's Haiku , 1974
• Territory , 1974
• Time of Orchestral Time I , 1975
• Not I, but the wind , 1976
• My Blue Sky, No. 3 for solo violin, 1977
• Domain , 1978
• Mai-Bataraki from Ritual for Delphi , 1979
• Projection Onomatopoetic , 1979
• Requiem for Orchestra , 1980
• Scenes from Basho , 1980
• Clarinet Solitude , 1980
• A Winter Day-homage to Basho , 1981
• Ishibutai Ko , 1981
• Asakano Eisho , 1982
• A Perspective for Orchestra , 1983
• Interpenetration No. 2 , 1983
• Observations on Weather Forecasts , 1983
• Composition on Ze Ami's 9 grades , 1984
• Shin Kiyari Kanda Sanka , 1984
• Towards "The Midnight Sun" , 1984
• Uta Asobi on Onomatopoeia , 1985
• Cosmos Haptic II , 1986
• Revealed Time for Viola & Orchestra , 1986
• A Study in White , 1987
• Maibataraki II , 1987
• Mutterings , 1988
• Suite Fushi Gyo-Un , 1988
• To the Genesis , 1988
• Nine Levels by Ze-Ami , 1988
• Koto Uta Basho's 5 Haiku , 1989
• Scenes from Basho II , 1989
• Terms of Temporal Detailing , 1989
• Subliminal Hey J. , 1990
• Phonomatopoeia , 1991
• Eye on Genesis , 1991
• Homage a Sibelius , 1991
• Piano Concertino , 1994
• Responsory , 1995
• Symphonic Suite "The Narrow Road into ..." , 1995
• Viola Locus , 1995
• Violin Concerto , 1996
• Jo Ha Kyu , 1996
• Melodies , 1997
• Cosmic Solitude , 1997
• Cosmos Haptic IV for cello and piano , 1997
• In Memory of Toru Takemitsu , 1997
• Reigaku , 1997
• Solitude in Memoriam TT for Trio , 1997
• Chronoplastic II , 1999/2000
• Chronoplastic III , 2001
• Projection for String Trio , 2001
• Cosmos Haptic V , 2002
• Four Seasons from Basho's Haiku , 2002
• Projection for Two Pianos , 2004
• Eye on Genesis III , 2005
• To Elegy for Mandolin Orchestra , 2008
• Symphonic Suite "Basho in the Wind of Autumn" , 2009
• Music for Cosmic Rite for Gagaku , 2011

Web links

• Jōji Yuasa: Works

Individual evidence

1. ^ Honorary members. ISCM , accessed June 30, 2020 .