Sumio Kobayashi (小林純生 ''Kobayashi Sumio'', born 29 December 1982 in

Mie, Japan is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Mie Prefecture has a population of 1,781,948 () and has a geographic area of . Mie Prefecture is bordered by Gifu Prefecture to the north, Shiga Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture ...

) is a Japanese poet and composer of

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included se ...

Biography

He has received formal musical training, excelling with

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

and

solfège In music, solfège (, ) or solfeggio (; ), also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a music education method used to teach aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music. Solfège is a form of solmization, though the two ...

, since 1985. Having studied with

Joji Yuasa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.Luciana Galliano, ''The Music of Joji Yuasa'' ed. Peter Burt. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. Early life and education Joji Yuasa was born in Kōriyama, Fukushima and is a self-taug ...

, he won at the I.C.O.M.S. 29°Concorso Internazionale di Composizione, Gyeongsangnam-do Special Prize at Isang Yun Prize, was second place at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in 2013, was a finalist at Pablo Casals International Composition Competition in 2015 and won the International Composers' Competition of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016. He has made appearances at festivals such as Takefu International Music Festival,

Tongyeong International Music Festival Tongyeong International Music Festival ( ko, 통영국제음악제), abbreviated TIMF, is an annual music festival held in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Considering the classification between ethnic and artistic categories, ...

, and Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik.

Works

* 2013 ''A Silver Note of Perfumed Moon'' * 2014 ''Sounds from the Forests are'' *2014 ''Floraison d'eau'' *2015 ''Requiems'' *2016 ''Fugue - homage to Maurice Ravel'' *2016 ''Music by Krasnale'' *2018 ''Nostalghia'' *2020 ''Unreal Rain'' *

External links

Works by Japanese ComposersSumio Kobayashi Official Website

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobayashi, Sumio 1982 births 21st-century classical composers 21st-century Japanese composers 21st-century Japanese male musicians Composers for piano Japanese classical composers Japanese contemporary classical composers Japanese film score composers Japanese male classical composers Japanese male film score composers Living people Music theorists Musicians from Mie Prefecture