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Performance Videos of Clarinet Works by Japanese Composers are Now Available

Apr. 01, 2021

Last year at the Maison du Japon of Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, the Tokyo Sinfonietta hosted an event featuring clarinet works by Japanese composers. A total of six works were performed, all published by Zen-On, including: Perspective en Spirale by Akira Miyoshi, A Clarinet Runs, and He Thinks by Shin-ichiro Ikebe, Kataribe by Michio Kitazume, Jyurei I and Jyurei II by Akira Nishimura, and Vitamin C - Composition by 3D modeling V by Hitomi Kaneko.



(Hitomi Kaneko/Vitamin C - Composition by 3D modeling V/Haruyo Nishizawa and Yasuaki Itakura, clarinets)

We are pleased to note that videos of all of the works performed are have now become available! View the full playlist here.

Akira Miyoshi
Perspective en spirale pour clarinette en si bémol (1989)
for clarinet and piano
Performance Video 
Clarinet: Haruyo Nishizawa
Piano: Yasuaki Itakura 
* score: ZN 509078 / 6 pages

Michio Kitazume
Kataribe (2018)
for clarinet solo
Performance Video
Clarinet: Asami Kawagoe
* score: ZN 509527 / 8 pages; Hal Leonard link: https://www.halleonard.com/product/49045880/kataribe

Akira Nishimura
Jyurei II (2015)
for five clarinets
Performance Video
Clarinets: Philippe Berrod, Wakako Sato, Haruyo Nishizawa, Asami Kawagoe, Yasuaki Itakura
* score and parts: ZN 509532 / 20+4x5 pages; sample pages: http://zen-on.jpn.org/trial/509532/HTML5/pc.html#/page/1

Hitomi Kaneko
Vitamin C - Composition by 3D modeling V (2019; version for 2 clarinets)
for two clarinets
Performance Video 
Clarinets: Haruyo Nishizawa and Yasuaki Itakura
* score in preparation; original instrumentation for two saxophones

Shin-Ichiro Ikebe 
A Clarinet Runs, and He Thinks (2004)
Performance Video 
Clarinet: Wakako Sato
* score: ZN 509501 / 8 pages

Akira Nishimura
Jyurei I (2014)
for two clarinets
Performance Video 
Clarinets: Haruyo Nishizawa and Yasuaki Itakura
* score: ZN 509531 / 20 pages; sample pages: http://zen-on.jpn.org/trial/509531/HTML5/pc.html#/page/1

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