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...the delicate sonic landscapes of the young composer ... oboe multiphonics, clings of metallic percussion and shimmers of tam-tam suggest ancient prayer rites; bent pitches on flute echo the quiet keening of the Japanese shakuhachi. "Ikaruga" shimmers with subtleties of color and atmosphere that sound at once old and new and very beautiful.
by John von Rhein — Chicago Tribune, 05/27/03
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Photo: May 2003 at the Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming) (Photo by Asahina Seika) |
New Release:
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"Marimbist" - Kunihiko Komori
(Oct. 21, 2005)
Fontec Japan FOCD9245
[SACD HYBRID]
3,000 yen
* Currently, only available in Japan.
Richard Rodney Bennett: After Syrinx II
Eugene O'Brien: Time and Reason
Mukai Kohei: Prelude and Allegro
Roger Reynolds: Autumn Island
Hosokawa Toshio: Reminiscence |
"... Kunihiko Komori, who shifted his activity to Japan since 2003, eventually released his solo album. This CD includes works by the most energetically active composers of the current time such as Rodger Reynolds, Mukai Kôhei and Hosokawa Toshio. They are all 'super high spec music,' I think, so I hope everybody to enjoy listening to this CD..."
by Ueno Naomi - Ongaku no Tomo (Friends of Music)
(Classical Music Magazine, Dec. 2005)
CD review.
"On the disk, pieces I got most fascinated are index 3 and 5. ...On the disk, the pieces I became most fascinated are tracks 3 and 5. ...Track 3 is Mukai Kohei's Prelude and Allegro..."
by Nodaira Tami - Record Geijutsu [Art of Records] (CD Magazine, Nov. 2005)
Review on the performance of "Prelude and Allegro."
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Recent News and Info:
Sep. 27, 2006
- Prelude and Allegro for marimba solo has been selected as a repertory piece of the Universal marimbacompetition august 2007-Belgium.
http://www.marimbacompetition.com/2007_repsolo.htm
March 7, 2006
- MMTA's commissioned composer Mukai Kohei receives Honorable Mention at national level
Missouri Classcial Music News
"MMTA's 2005 Commissioned Composer was Mukai Kohei, of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His work Fantasie on Japanese Children's Songs II was performed at the MMTA Conference in Columbia.
Each year the Commissioned Composer is also entered in MTNA's Distinguished Composer of the Year Award competition. This year Mukai was one of three Honorable Mentions in that competition..."
Oct. 19, 2005
• Received the Composition Prize of the 9th Composition Competition of the Exhibition of Japanese Composition
Oct. 14, 2005
• Selected as a finalist of the 2005 Foundation Orchestra Association's International Composition Competition
Oct. 9, 2005
• Selected as a semi-finalist of the 2006 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and Reading Sessions
Aug. 30, 2005
• Selected as an Honorable Mention (2nd Place), the 2005 JoAnn Falletta International Composers' Competition.
Nov. 11, 2004
• Selected as the Commissioned Composer 2005, the Missouri Music Teatchers Association (MMTA) Composition Commission
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*The authentic order of Japanese names is Last-First.
Mukai is family name, Kei is personal name.
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