I’ve decided to start a small monthly column on new Japanese composition. I’d like to highlight at least five composers who meet a couple of selection criteria:
1) one temporal, meaning they were born after 1980;
2) the other innovative, meaning they represent an updating of the traditional connection between Western and Eastern elements and present their own strengths in the contemporary classical world.
For each composer, I’ll write a brief profile, followed by a short interview on the themes of their music.
The first installment is dedicated to Yu Kuwabara (1984), a composer whose monographic collection I reviewed for Kairos R. entitled ‘Sounded Voice, Voiced Sound’.
I’ll
