Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Toshio Hosokawa
born: 10/23/1955
nationality: Japan
Upcoming:
Memory
11/22/2008 | Funkhaus Wallrafplatz, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal - Köln - Germany
Herbst-Lied
11/22/2008 | Evang. Kirche - Dannenfels - Germany
Toshio Hosokawa was born on October 23, 1955 in Hiroshima. He went to West Berlin to study composition with Isang Yun at the Hochschule der Künste in 1976. From 1983 to 1986, he studied with Klaus Huber at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg.
In 1980, he participated for the first time in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where his work was performed. Since then, Hosokawa has presented his works in Europe and Japan, gaining an international reputation and winning numerous awards and prizes, including First Prize in the Composition Competition on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester (1982), Rheingau Musikpreis (1998), Duisburger Musikpreis (1998) and musica viva-Preises der ARD und BMW AG (2001). In 2001, Hosokawa became a member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin. He is also invited as one of the fellows 2006/2007 by Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
He has been invited to nearly all of the major contemporary music festivals in Europe as composer in residence, guest composer or lecturer, including the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (1990- ), La Biennale di Venezia (1995, 2001), Münchener Biennale (1998), Internationale Sommerakademie der Hochschule "Mozerteum" Salzburg (1998), Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern (2000), musica viva in Munich (2001), Klangspuren in Schwaz (2002) Musica nova Helsinki (2003) and Centre Acanthes in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (2003). At the Münchener Biennale in 1998, his first opera, Vision of Lear, commissioned by the City of Munich for the festival, was premiered, and highly acclaimed as "a work inspired by the encounter of East and West which has opened up a new musical world."
In 2004, his second opera Hanjo, commissioned by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, was premiered at the Festival and achieved an overwhelming triumph.
In August 2005, his orchestral work, Circulating Ocean, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, was premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Valery Gergiev and received its U.K. premiere in August 2006 at the BBC Proms. Lotus under the moonlight for piano and orchestra, which was commissioned by NDR on the occasion of Mozart Year 2006 received its world premiere and repeated performances in a regular concert of NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Jun Märkl with Momo Kodama as the solois in April 2006. The work was also well received when it was first performed in Japan by Momo Kodama and Mito Chamber Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa in December 2006. In January 2007, the German Premiere of Circulating Ocean took place in Berlin by Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin under the baton of Kent Nagano.
Since 1998, he has served as Composer-in-Residence at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Since 2001, he has served as Music Director for the Takefu International Music Festival, and in 2004, he became a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music.
In 1980, he participated for the first time in the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where his work was performed. Since then, Hosokawa has presented his works in Europe and Japan, gaining an international reputation and winning numerous awards and prizes, including First Prize in the Composition Competition on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester (1982), Rheingau Musikpreis (1998), Duisburger Musikpreis (1998) and musica viva-Preises der ARD und BMW AG (2001). In 2001, Hosokawa became a member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin. He is also invited as one of the fellows 2006/2007 by Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
He has been invited to nearly all of the major contemporary music festivals in Europe as composer in residence, guest composer or lecturer, including the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (1990- ), La Biennale di Venezia (1995, 2001), Münchener Biennale (1998), Internationale Sommerakademie der Hochschule "Mozerteum" Salzburg (1998), Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern (2000), musica viva in Munich (2001), Klangspuren in Schwaz (2002) Musica nova Helsinki (2003) and Centre Acanthes in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (2003). At the Münchener Biennale in 1998, his first opera, Vision of Lear, commissioned by the City of Munich for the festival, was premiered, and highly acclaimed as "a work inspired by the encounter of East and West which has opened up a new musical world."
In 2004, his second opera Hanjo, commissioned by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, was premiered at the Festival and achieved an overwhelming triumph.
In August 2005, his orchestral work, Circulating Ocean, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, was premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Valery Gergiev and received its U.K. premiere in August 2006 at the BBC Proms. Lotus under the moonlight for piano and orchestra, which was commissioned by NDR on the occasion of Mozart Year 2006 received its world premiere and repeated performances in a regular concert of NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Jun Märkl with Momo Kodama as the solois in April 2006. The work was also well received when it was first performed in Japan by Momo Kodama and Mito Chamber Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa in December 2006. In January 2007, the German Premiere of Circulating Ocean took place in Berlin by Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin under the baton of Kent Nagano.
Since 1998, he has served as Composer-in-Residence at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Since 2001, he has served as Music Director for the Takefu International Music Festival, and in 2004, he became a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music.
