Motoyuki Shitanda
Motoyuki Shitanda is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor.
Biography
Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa, Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition. He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women's Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.He has received several awards and distinctions including 1st prize in the 1985 Sasagawa Award Music Composition Competition for Festal March, and 1st prize in the 1993 Asahi Composition Award for Hibiki no sobyō . Shitanda is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers and Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan.
Selected works
Uchū no uta Futari no shōzō Afternoon Lullaby Michi Jumon The Sea Hi no kyoku Gekka san-ei;Orchestra
- Symphony No.1 Symphony for the Citizens No.2
;Concertante
- Concerto for viola and orchestra Karavinka, Concerto for koto with string orchestra, percussion and harp
;Works for traditional Japanese instruments Hiten gensō for koto and marimba Mugenka for koto ensemble Musaishū for 2 kotos Two Movements for solo jūshichi-gen In a Grove, Monodrama for male voice and jūshichi-gen ; after the short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
;ChoralWinter, Composition for female chorus and chamber orchestra