Toshi Ichiyanagi (Ichiyanagi, February 4, 1933 -) is a pianist, a composer born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
From a very young age he demonstrated his talent, he was enrolled in the Aoyama Gakuin High School. From 1949 to 1951, he was awarded the genius boy, for example, he won the 3rd consecutive prize at the music competition everyday (2nd in 1st place) . After that, he went to the United States in 1954 and studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 1954 to 1957. In 1956 he married Ono Yoko (divorced in 1962). In 1959, he joined John Cage's lecture at New School of the same school and was influenced greatly by his thought, taking in graphic score and uncertainty music.
Toshi Ichiyanagi returned to Japan in 1961. Starting with "The 4th Contemporary Music Festival" held in Osaka in the same year and at various concerts, he introduced American avant-garde music and his work representative of the cage, and music critic Hidekazu Yoshida. He gave the Japanese music industry a shock that he could call "cage shock". Eventually, he was inspired by minimal music which is another flow of American experimental music, and in 1972 he announced "piano - media". This work was written in staff, the uncertainty had been eliminated, and it showed the change from the style before that. Since that time, he became interested in elements of space in music. After the 1980s, he received a high reputation such as winning the Otaka Prize 4 times, and since then he has been acting as one of the representative composers in Japan with both name.
Toshi Ichiyanagi is one of Japan's most imaginative composers. Inspired by the avant garde works of John Cage, Ichiyanagi has consistently found new ways to express his musical vision. His 1960 composition, "Kaiki," combined Japanese instruments, sho and koto, and western instruments, harmonica and saxophone. His 1967 piece, "Extended Voices" was written for a chorus accompanied by Moog and Buchla synthesizers. "Orchestral Space," recorded in 1978 by the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, was composed for electronic modulators, magnetic tape and orchestra. Ichiyanagi's most eccentric piece might be "Music For Piano #5: Fluxvariation," featuring darts thrown into the back of a piano. Ichiyanagi, who studied in New York at the Julliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research, was the recipient of the Serge Koussevitzky prize at the Berkshire Music Camp.
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