Naohiro Iwai
Biography
Naohiro Iwai (2 October 1923 – 10 May 2014) was a Japanese composer, arranger and conductor.
In 1947, Iwai graduated from the Tokyo Ongaku School’s Instrumental Department (today this is part of the Tokyo Geijyutu University). Following his graduation, he entered the jazz field, gaining experience by working as an arranger with many bands, including the Anny Pile Orchestra and Franky Sakai’s “City Slickers” Band.
He arranged over 5,000 songs in the classical and popular styles for many different purposes, including brass and woodwind ensembles, and music education. He was very active nation-wide as a conductor and adjudicator, and was famous for his band clinics. As a composer, arranger and conductor it was his aim to develop pop music for brass and concert bands.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Dreams of Tomorrow Overture for Rebuilding (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (2013)
All Wind Works
- 76 Trombones (as arranger) (1957/1992)
- African Symphony (as arranger) (1974/1977/1992)
- Beyond the Far Horizon (1974)
- American Beauties (1994/2006)
- American Graphity. See: American Beauties
- Children of Sanchez (as arranger) (1978/1993)
- Cielito Lindo (as arranger) (1882/1995)
- Disney Fantasy (as arranger) (1981/1992)
- Disney Medley. See: Disney Fantasy
- Dreams of Tomorrow Overture for Rebuilding (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (2013)
- El Cumbanchero (as arranger) (1943/1995)
- Gonna Fly Now (as arranger) (1976/2008)
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (as arranger) (1952/1992)
- Jump Up Kosei 21
- Jungle Fantasy (as arranger) (1995)
- Like the Flow of the River (as arranger) (1989/)
- Mame Medley (as arranger) (1966/1979/1996)
- Mambo Jambo (as arranger) (1972/1993)
- My Way (as arranger) (1967/2001)
- Overture for Rebuilding "Dreams of Tomorrow" (2013)
- Poem of the Beach, A
- Pop Concert March "Wonderful Days" (1989)
- Pop Image "On Main Street" (1976)
- Pop Overture "Development toward the Future" (1975)
- Pop Variation "Counting Song" (1978)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (as arranger) (1949/1977/1992)
- Sing, Sing, Sing (as arranger) (1936/1981/2005)
- Sir Duke (as arranger) (1975/2000)
- Song and Samba (as arranger) (1959/1998)
- The Sound of Music Medley (as arranger) (1959/1979/2003)
- Sound Unlimited
- Sousa March Carnival (as arranger) (2004)
- Syncopated March "Toward Tomorrow" (1972)
- Take the "A" Train (as arranger) (1939/1979)
- Tico Tico (as arranger) (1917/1992)
- When the Saints Go Marching In (as arranger) (1999)
- Yagi-Bushi (as arranger)
Resources
- Naohiro Iwai, Curnow Music Accessed 14 February 2017
- Naohiro Iwai, Wikipedia (Japanese)