Composer
Biography:
Toshio Hosokawa, born in Hiroshima in 1955, came to Berlin in 1976 and studied composition with Isang Yun. From 1983 to 1986 he continued his studies with Klaus Huber at the University of Music in Freiburg.
In 1980 he took part in the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt for the first time. Since then, his works have been performed in Europe and Japan, won international recognition and received numerous awards and prizes such as first prize in the composition competition on the occasion of the 1th birthday of the Berlin Philharmonic (100), the Arion Music Prize (1982), the Kyoto Music Prize (1984 ), the Rheingau Music Prize (1988), the Duisburg Music Prize (1998) and the musica viva prize from ARD and BMW AG (1998). In 2001 he was appointed a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Hosokawa is invited to almost all important festivals for contemporary music as a composer or lecturer, including: International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt, Venice Biennale, Munich Biennale, International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, International Festival Weeks Lucerne, musica viva Munich, Klangspuren in Schwaz , Musica nova Helsinki, Center Acanthes in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Warsaw Autumn.
Toshio Hosokawa has been the musical director of the Takefu International Music Festival since 2001 and a visiting professor at the Tokyo College of Music since 2004. In 2006/2007 he was composer in residence at the DSO Berlin and from 2006 to 2008 at the WDR Rundfunkchor in Cologne. In 2006/2007 and 2008/2009 Hosokawa was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Albums:
Isao Nakamura plays Works for Solo Percussion:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
