Hiroaki Kataoka
Biography
Hiroaki Kataoka (片岡 寛晶, b. 1983, Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer and percussionist.
Hiroaki Kataoka graduated from Tokyo College of Music majoring in percussion. He studied composition with Katsuhiro Tsubonou and Yutaka Fujiwara, and percussion with Atsushi Sugawara, Mariko Okada and Keiko Abe.
He plays professionally and also joins with many concerts and recitals performing his own works. When not teaching and giving clinics to orchestras and bands, he composes and arranges.
Kataoka was invited to Tongyeong International Music Festival and was able to collaborate with Ensemble Modern. His work The Path Tenma for wind orchestra was selected in 2007 as one of five required pieces of the 2008 All-Japan Band Competition. His signature work, Sea Goddess, premiered in the United States on 18 December 2014 at the Midwest Clinic by Orange County School of the Arts (Santa Ana, California) Frederick Fennell Wind Ensemble (Teren Shaffer, conductor). The work was then performed on 16 July 2015 at the International WASBE (World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) Conference by the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) Wind Orchestra (Darrin Oehlerking, conductor). The fact that his work was featured in these two big concerts helped him to become known overseas.
Kataoka currently [2021] teaches at Tokyo Seitoku University and Japan Women's University.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- A Beautiful Day (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Makalish Sophia (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Makam Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- Tango Impressions (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Flex instrumentation) (1807/2013)
All Wind Works
- Amenominakanushi (2017)
- At Meditation for Four Percussionists (2011)
- At Night when Beautiful Star Falls (2011)
- At Night when Beautiful Star Falls 2 (2014)
- Banda Dramatico (2018)
- Barbaresque (2019)
- A Beautiful Day (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Calling from Jesus Christ (2016)
- Exoticism (2014)
- Farandole from L'Arlésienne Suite No.2 (as arranger) (2014)
- The Fragment of J (2012)
- Gryphon’s Prayer (2014)
- Hiroshima Toyo Carp Support Songs (as arranger) (2016)
- Itsuka-no-sato, Iizuka (2015)
- The Knight of the Sky (2013)
- Konohananosakuya-hime, Sakura Princes (Larger Version) (2018)
- Konohananosakuya-hime, Sakura Princes (Smaller Version) (2018)
- The Light Shift of Orient (2013)
- Makalish Sophia (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Makam Dances (2015)
- Makam Dance (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- Makam Passionato (2018)
- Makam Spirits (2018)
- Memory, Prayer and Revival for Higashi Nihon (2018)
- Miyabi (2012)
- Miyabi-Sakura (2016)
- Musica Ethnote (2018)
- Namikage (2017)
- On Beast (2016)
- Oriental Rhapsody (2013)
- Oriental Rhyth-mood (2014)
- The Path Tenma (2008)
- Percussive Brass (2015)
- Percussive Dance 2011 (2012)
- Percussive Space (2009)
- Percussive Wave (2013)
- Prominence II (2017)
- PULSACION (as arranger) (2012)
- Ran-ei, Hazy Mountain Atmosphere (2015)
- St. Elmo's Fire (2017)
- Sculpture in Brass (2012)
- Sea Goddess (Larger Version) (2013)
- Sea Goddess (Smaller Version) (2015)
- Shi-Shi Kagura (2010)
- Spirytus (2016)
- Strait Defense (2015)
- Tango Impressions (Flex instrumentation) (2016)
- Theme from "Howl's Moving Castle" (as arranger) (2004/2011)
- Tori no Iwa Kusu Fune no Kami (2012)
- Tracks from Mammoth Cave (2011)
- Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Flex instrumentation) (1807/2013)
- Viva Sugar Road March (2015)
- Xylophone Magic (2012)
- Yoikage (2019)
Resources
- All Japan Band Association (in Japanese)
- ASKS Winds (in Japanese)
- Hiroaki Kataoka Bravo Music / Brain Music International
- Hiroaki Kataoka Wikipedia
- Hiroaki Kataoka 片岡 寛晶 - Official Youtube Channel (in Japanese)
- Iizuka City (in Japanese)
- Japan Percussion Center (in Japanese)
- Rocket Music (in Japanese)
- Universe (in Japanese)
- NAXOS Music Library (in Japanese)