Makoto Shinohara


Makoto Shinohara is a Japanese composer.

Biography

Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woess. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier Messiaen, Simone Plé-Caussade, Pierre Revel and Louis Fourrestier. From 1962 to 1964 he studied in Munich at the Hochschule für Musik and at the Siemens electronic studio; following this he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Rheinische Musikhochschule in Cologne and then with Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1964–65. He held a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service in 1966 and 1967 and won a scholarship from the Italian government in 1969. In 1971, he was awarded the Rockefeller Prize from the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center and in 1978 won a scholarship from the Dutch government.
He worked with electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, at the electronic studio at the Technischen Universität in Berlin, at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York and at Studio NHK in Tokyo. In 1978 Shinohara was a visiting professor of composition at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Since the 1970s, he has been best known for combining Western and traditional Japanese musics, as well as versatile experimentation with Western acoustic and electronic music.

Works

Orchestral