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Satoshi Yagisawa
Biography
Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 3 April 1975, Iwate Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer.
Yagisawa was graduated from the Department of Composition at Musashino Academia Musicae, and later completed the master's coursework at the graduate school of Musashino Academia Musicae. He studied composition under Kenjiro Urata, Hitoshi Tanaka, and Hidehiko Hagiwaya, in addition to studying trumpet under Takeji Sekine and band instruction under Masato Sato.
His compositions for wind orchestra are popular in Japan and many other countries. They were introduced in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, published by GIA Publications in the United States, published by De Haske Publications in Holland and Bravo Music in America, selected as a compulsory piece for the University of North Texas Conductors' Collegium, and performed at the 12th World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) in Singapore and the Midwest Clinic (2008) in Chicago. In Japan, he has composed music for National Arbor Day, National Sports Festival, Japan Intra-High School Athletic Meets as well as numerous leading ensembles in Japan. Yagisawa was appointed Ceremonial Music Director for the National Sports Festival 2010 in the State of Chiba, Japan.
Other professional activities include festival adjudication, guest conducting, teaching, lecturing, writing columns for music magazines and advisory work for a music publisher. He is one of the most energetic young composers in Japan today. Currently he teaches wind, string, and percussion instruments at Tokyo Music & Media Arts, Shobi. He is also a member of "Kyo-En", an organization that premieres outstanding original works by Japanese composers.
Amongst Yagisawa's major works for winds are A Poem for Wind Orchestra - Hymn to the Infinite Sky; Machu Picchu: City in the Sky - The mystery of the hidden Sun Temple; and Perseus - A Hero's Quest in the Heavens. In addition to his band compositions, he has composed for several other genres, including orchestral, chamber, and choral works.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Capricious Winds II (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2013)
- Intrada II (Flex instrumentation) (2011/2012)
- Seasons Floral Scented (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream II (Flex instrumentation)
All Wind Works
- Alphamonic Overture
- And Then the Ocean Glows (2002/2011)
- The Bells of Sagrada Familia (2009)
- Call of the Aboriginals (2017)
- Cantilena
- Capricious Winds
- Capricious Winds II (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2013)
- Concertino for Solo Percussion and Wind Orchestra (2012)
- The Earnest Wish of Priest Kokei
- Fanfare - Flight to the Unknown World
- Fanfare - The Benefaction from Sky and Mother Earth (2010)
- Fanfare Hayabusa (2011)
- Fanfare Mi-Chi-Bi-Ki
- Four Seasons of Japan (2019)
- Hunting Scenes (2013)
- Hymn to the Infinite Sky (2006)
- Hymn to the Sun - with the Beat of Mother Earth (2006/2010)
- Intrada (2001)
- Intrada II (Flex instrumentation) (2011/2012)
- Largo (2010)
- Machu Picchu - City in the Sky (2005)
- March-Bou-Shu (2006)
- March-Chagu-Chagu (2016/2017)
- March Willing and Able
- Marimba Concerto (2009)
- The Memory of Our Native Place
- Moses and Ramses
- Nazca Lines (2005)
- Perseus (2005)
- Pompeii (2011)
- Primavera (2008)
- A Scene of Rome (2010/2014)
- Seasons Floral Scented (Flex instrumentation) (2015)
- Sentimentale (2015)
- The Singapore Flyer (2010)
- Spring Sketches, The
- Swaying in the West Wind
- Symphonic Episode
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream
- Triple Scoop Ice Cream II (Flex instrumentation)
- Trumpet Concerto (2013)
- The Victoria Peak (2015)
- Voyage (Flight to a Hopeful Future)
- The West Symphony (2003-2006)
- The Wings of Eternity (2015)
- Young Pheasants in the Sky
Resources
- The Horizon Leans Forward…, compiled and edited by Erik Kar Jun Leung, GIA Publications, 2021, p. 518.
- Satoshi Yagisawa, Bravo Music
- Satoshi Yagisawa website Accessed 15 May 2019
- Satoshi Yagisawa, Wikipedia Accessed 14 September 2017
- Williams, Nicholas Enrico. "Machu Picchu." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 509-514. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
- Zembower, Christian. "Largo." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 419-430. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.