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Biography:
Yoichi Sugiyama (born 1969 in Tokyo) studied conducting with Emilio Pomàrico and Morihiro Okabe and composition with Franco Donatoni, Sandro Gorli and Akira Miyoshi. He works as a conductor and composer in Europe and Japan.
Since he 2000 Luigi Nono's opera Prometheus (with the Ensemble Modern Orchestra), Sugiyama is present at important international festivals of contemporary music: Wien Modern, Festival d'Automne (Paris), Milano Musica, Verdi Festival (Parma), Settembre Musica and Suntory Summer Festival. He works with important orchestras and ensembles (e.g. Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Arena di Verona, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Orchester de Chambre de Genève, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali Milano, Orchestra Friuli Venezia Giulia, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Izumi Sinfonietta, Orchestra Regionale Marchigiana, Orchestra Sinfonica della Repubblica di San Marino, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Remix Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Alter Ego, Collegium Novum Zurich, Icarus Ensemble, Ensemble dell' Accademia della Scala, mdi ensemble).
Yoichi Sugiyama's compositions are performed at international festivals: Biennale di Venezia 2010 (Barcarulola II for ensemble), 2000 (Barcaruola I for viola and percussion, commissioned by the Biennale di Venezia); Milan Musica (Ruscello nel lago, commissioned by Milano Musica 2009), Beyond the Frontier (commissioned work by Milano Musica 2003); Tyrolean Festival Erl 2000 (Interlude III for piano, commissioned by the Tiroler Festspiele Erl), Angelica Festival (Bologna), REC Festival d'Autunno and Takefu International Music Festival. Be fun I for ensemble (1997) is published by Casa Ricordi in Milan. In 2001, Sugiyama wrote this Divertime II for the piano duo by Bruno Canino. The performances are regularly u. a. broadcast by NHK-FM, RAI and ORF.
In 2014, Sugiyama was awarded the Suntory Foundation for Arts' Keizo Saji Prize for Last Interview from Africa (Dedicated to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the 2011 Fukushima disaster). In 1994 he received the Premio SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori) during a summer course with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana. He attended master classes and workshops by Luis de Pablo (Milan, 1996), György Ligeti (Novara, 1996), Adriano Guarnieri (Milan, 1996) and the London Sinfonietta (Tokyo, 1994).
Yoichi Sugiyama taught as an assistant in the composition courses of Franco Donatoni (1998) and Giacomo Manzoni (1999) in Tokyo. In 1995 he received a composition grant from the Italian government. Since then he has lived in Milan and teaches »Claudio Abbado« at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano.
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