Toshio Akiyama

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Toshio Akiyama ( Japanese 秋山 紀 夫 , Akiyama Toshio ; born March 26, 1929 in Ōmiya (today: Ōmiya-ku , Saitama ), Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese composer and conductor .

He studied at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo , where he graduated in 1963, and at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music . He then taught at the Sakuragi Middle School in Ōmiya and conducted the wind orchestra there. His success with this orchestra spurred him to complete his studies in 1973 and 1974 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester , New York State , and at the University of Michigan in the USA .

He is considered the leading wind orchestra conductor in Japan and is also in great demand as a guest conductor in the USA. He is also active in associations of the brass music movement. From 1961 to 1973 he was Vice President of the Kantō Band Association and from 1973 to 1983 Vice President of the All Japan Band Association . From 1993 to 1997 he was President of the Japanese Band Directors Association , of which he has been Honorary President since 2003. From 1968 to 1999 he was a member of the faculty of the Musashino Academia Musicae . From 1958 to 2000 he was chief conductor of the Sony Symphonic Wind Orchestra .

He currently holds the following positions: from 1983 honorary member of the American Bandmasters Association , from 1995 member of the Board of Directors of the World Association for Symphonic Band and Ensembles , from 1996 honorary president of the Asian Pacific Band Directors Association and from 1999 honorary member of the All Japan Band Association .

The awards given to him and the prizes he received are quite numerous. His oeuvre is not quite as extensive. In return, he was all the more committed to the establishment, distribution and musical development of the wind orchestras in Japan and is known in specialist circles as the godfather of the Japanese wind music movement. He currently works as musical and cultural advisor to the city of Hamamatsu and is music director and artistic director of the Omiya Wind Symphony , the Japanese partner orchestra of the German selection orchestra Westfalen Winds .

In February 2017 he visited Germany with the Omiya Wind Symphony . As part of the international cultural exchange between Germany and Japan, which Westfalen Winds initiated in 2015 with the support of the Goethe Institute and the Federal Foreign Office , the Omiya Wind Symphony, under the direction of Toshio Akiyama, will make a guest appearance in the Düsseldorf area together with its German partner orchestra Westfalen Winds .

Works

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1959: Yorokobino Hinotameni
  • 1963: Japanese Songs
  • 1965: Saitama Kokutai-March
  • 1968: Sports March

Books and writings

  • Toshio Akiyama: Band Music Index 552 (concert band guide) . 1992.
  • Toshio Akiyama: 125 Years of Band Activities in Japan . 1995. 7th WASBE Conference in Hamamatsu , Japan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ お お み や 市民 吹奏 楽 団 Omiya City Community Band. In: occb.or.tv. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
  2. ^ Westfalen Winds eV: Partnerships of Westfalen Winds. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  3. ^ Westfalen Winds eV: Project description Westfalen Winds at "Westfalen beweger". Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Akiyama, Toshio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 秋山 紀 夫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese composer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōmiya (now: Ōmiya-ku , Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, Japan