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Shin’ya Takahashi
Biography
Shin’ya Takahashi (b. 1962, Shinja, Japan) is a Japanese composer.
Takahashi received his bachelor's and master's degrees in composition from Kunitachi College of Music. His March Beyond the Horizon was selected as a 1999 All-Japan Band Competition test piece, and another work, Jalan-jalan, Vision of Isle of the Gods, in the style of gamelan (traditional Indonesian music), was selected as a 2005 Bavarian State Wind Band Festival test piece.
His compositional style employs various Asian ethnic influences like Japanese culture (Sharaku), the traditional Southeast Asian genre of gamelan (Jalan-jalan), or Korean folk songs (Song of the Straits). He also writes for diverse ability levels (Gold Rush!, Sunday Market, and Weather Report). His Wind for Winds march has the easy going feel that introduces his work to many ensembles.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Higher than the Sky (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1990/)
- Marche Militaire (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1818/)
- My Neighbor Totoro (as arranger) (1988/)
- The Only Flower in the World (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2003)
All Wind Works
- Atlantis (2003)
- Beyond the Critical Point (1999)
- Glacier Express (2000)
- Gold Rush! (2002)
- Great Wave (2007)
- Higher than the Sky (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1990/)
- Jadillusion (2004)
- Jalan-jalan, Vision of the Isle of the Gods (2000)
- Ka and Flame (2001)
- Kitaro (2005)
- Marche Militaire (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1818/)
- My Neighbor Totoro (as arranger) (1988/)
- The Only Flower in the World (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2003)
- Sanctuary (Takahashi) (2006)
- Sharaku (2003)
- Song of Streets, A (1998)
- Song of the Clear Stream - Seiryu Hymn (2007)
- Strong Man: Benkei (2005)
- Sunday Market (2006)
- Voyager (Takahashi) (2003)
- Weather Report
- Wind for Winds (1998)
- Wright Flyer (2005)
