Shin'ichirō Ikebe


Shin'ichirō Ikebe is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.

Overviews

He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors, including Kagemusha, MacArthur's Children, Kurosawa's Dreams, Rhapsody in August, Madadayo, and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge.

Biography

He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro, and Akira Miyoshi at the Tokyo National [University of Fine Arts and Music], obtaining a master's degree in 1971. He serves as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music. He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, Broadcasting Culture Award, Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon.

Selected works

  • Symphony no. 3
  • Symphony no. 5 "Simplex"
  • Music to "Kagemusha"
  • War song
  • Spirit in the fields
  • Sanshuu Road
  • Dreams

List of works

Symphonies

  • Symphony No. 1, 1967Petite symphonie, 1969
  • Symphony No. 2 "Trias", 1979
  • Symphony No. 3 "Ego phano", 1984
  • Symphony No. 4, 1990
  • Symphony No. 5 "Simplex", 1990
  • Symphony No. 6 "On the Individual Coordinates", 1993
  • Symphony No. 7 "To the Sympathy for a Drip", 1999
  • Symphony No. 8 "The Earth/Prayer", 2013
  • Symphony No. 9 for soprano, baritone and orchestra, 2013
  • Symphony No. 10 "For the Coming Era", 2015

Orchestral works

Movement for Orchestra, 1964Construction, two pieces for orchestra, 1966Energeia for 60 musicians, 1970Haru-no-umi for Orchestra, 1980Elegiac Lines for strings, 1982Imagine for orchestra, 1983Overture for the Time of Flying Star, 1984Overture for the Coming of the New Spring, paraphrase of Antonio Vivaldi and homage to Maurice Ravel, 1986Mandolin Mandoriale for mandolin orchestra, 1986Overture or Nile, 1988
  • Overture "Mito", 1989River/Shout, symphonic piece, 1988Fantasy of Kyushu, symphonic piece, 1989Spontaneous Ignition for orchestra, 1989Overture for the song lovers, 1990Hokkai, symphonic piece, 1992Fantasy of Ryukyu, symphonic piece, 1993Mountain/Fragrant, symphonic piece, 1994The Glossy-Leaved Forest for strings, 1995Les bois tristes for orchestra, 1998The Echo of K Ai for orchestra, 1999Saka-Sakasa-Kasa, march concertante, 2000–02Prelude for Celebration, 2000The Origin of Water for orchestra, 2001Fanfare for the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, 2002Fan-Faring for orchestra and mixed choir, 2002The Chronicle of 3776 Meters for orchestra, 2003After the Dreams, 2003Tanada I for orchestra, 2004The Warmth in Your Home for orchestra, 2004Falling Particles of... for chamber orchestra, 2005Nakatsugawa, 2005Ouju Gaga for gagaku, 2009Perennial Prelude, 2010Prelude for the Next Times, 2011

Works for wind ensemble

I hear the piano... Amadeus for two wind groups and organ, 1983Landscape for wind ensemble, 1989The Times of Quickening for wind ensemble, 1999Fanfare for the Coming Era for brass octet, 2015

Concertante works

  • Piano Concerto No. 1, 1967Dimorphism for organ and orchestra, 1974Quadrants for Japanese instruments and orchestra, 1974
  • Violin Concerto, 1981Echigo-Jishi for sangen and orchestra, 1983
  • Piano Concerto No. 2, 1987
  • Cello Concerto "Almost a tree", 1996
  • Bassoon Concerto "The License of Blaze", 1999-2004
  • Flute Concerto "Sitting on a Sand, Face to Face", 2003
  • Sangen Concerto "As a Shade Tree", 2005Mandolin Mandoriale 2 for mandolin orchestra, 2006
  • Harp Concerto "Luminescence on Ice", 2007
  • Piano Concerto No. 3 "To a West Wind", 2013

Operas, cantatas and musicals

The Death Goddess, opera, 1971A Red Shoes, musical drama, 1975The Silence, musical drama for radio, 1977The Adventure of Pinocchio, musical, 1981On ne badine pas avec l'amour, musical, 1982Hoichi, the earless, opera, 1982Never ending story, musical, 1984Taro in the Wonder Woods, musical, 1985The Window, musical drama, 1986Chichibu-Bansho, opera, 1988Carmen, Capriccio Based on Georges Bizet, 1989For a Beautiful Star, cantata, 1990Watatsumi no iroko no miya, cantata, 1990Shin, Zen, Bi, cantata, 1994Oshichi, opera, 1995The Down/Ocean, Mountain, Rivers and Human Beings, cantata, 1996Dugong's Lullaby, opera, 1996Freezing Field... Glaring, cantata, 1996Yobikawasu sanga, oratorio, 2001Takagami, opera, 2001The forrests are living, musical, 2003Kotsuru, opera, 2003Onihachi, opera, 2004Sagan Rhapsody, 2004The Path of Spiritual Growth, cantata, 2006Cursor, musical, 2007The Bridge, cantata, 2007Umi yo. haha yo, cantata, 2008Rokumeikan, opera, 2010, premiered by the New National Theatre Tokyo in 2010

Ballets and dance music

Kusabi, dance music, 1972Creature, ballet, 1974Oshichi, She Is in the Flame, dance music, 1978Takeru, dance music, 1979Cleopatra—Her Love and Death, ballet, 1983Mobile et Immobile, ballet, 1984Mizu-kuguru monogatari, dance music, 1984To-to taru, ichiitai-sui, ballet, 1986For the Earth, dance music, 1989

Film scores

Vengeance is Mine Kagemusha Himeyuri no Tō The [Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)|The Ballad of Narayama] MacArthur's Children Gray Sunset Dreams Takeshi - Childhood Days Rhapsody in August Madadayo The Eel Spy Sorge Baruto no Gakuen Glory to the Filmmaker!,

Television scores

Honours