Hifumi Shimoyama
Hifumi Shimoyama is a Japanese composer of contemporary concert music.
Since the 1960s, Shimoyama's music has been regularly featured on World Music Days festivals across Europe and Asia, and sponsored by the International Society for Contemporary Music. Shimoyama is the founder of GROUP 20.5, the internationally recognized group of Japanese avant garde composers.Selected compositions
Shimoyama's works are published by Academia Music, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Japan Federation of Composers, Mieroprint, Ongaku no Tomo-sha.
;Orchestral
- Reflection for 3 string orchestras
- Zone for 16 string players
- Fūmon II for orchestra and tape
- Yūgenism for orchestra
- Doubridge for string orchestra
;Concertante
;Chamber music
- String Quartet
- Structure for 4 performers
- Dialogue for cello and piano
- Dialogue for 2 guitars
- Ceremony for cello solo
- Exorcism for string quintet
- MSP for violin and piano
- Dialogue No. 2 for 2 guitars
- Transmigration for percussion and double bass
- Fūmon IV for 4 percussionists and tape
- Chromophony for orchestra
- Dialogue for 2 percussionists
- Transmigration No. 2 for shakuhachi, cello and harp
- Meditation for cello and piano
- Oriental Wind for oboe, English horn, piano and percussion
- L.41°N, Homage to N for guitar
- Ikki no gekkei for cello, 17-string koto and tape
- Fūmon VI for clarinet, cello, percussion and tape
- Keikyō for clarinet, double bass, percussion and tape
- Essay for recorder player with antique cymbals and wood chime
- Shinkyō for 2 double basses
- Amalgam for shakuhachi, bass clarinet and piano
- Duplication for viola and guitar
- Shinkyō No. 2 for 6 double basses
;Organ
- Landscape for organ
- Landscape No. 2 for organ and percussion
;Vocal
- Breath for female voice, piano and percussion
- Catalysis for voice, alto flute, bass trombone, cello and persussion
- Catalysis No. 2 for soprano, piano and percussion
;Japanese instruments
- Catalysis No. 3 for shinobue, shamisen, koto and percussion
- Kannagi for shakuhachi, 2 kotos and 17-string koto
- Kaze no toh for shakuhachi, 20-string koto, percussion
- Monologue for shamisen
- Figure for shakuhachi and percussion
