Kondo Festival

Kohei Kondo has written music for nearly every instrument and combination of small chamber ensembles, as well as several orchestral pieces. His music is highly influenced by nature and the rural Japanese landscape. In 2002 he won a prize for a composition at the International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo Kodaira. In 2006 his Piano Concerto op. 84 was performed by Maya Fukumura and the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paolo Ferrara. In 2010 he won 2nd prize at the composition competition "Klang der Welt Ostasien" of Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2013 his Guitar Concerto "Travelin with Guitar" was premiered by Gaku Yamada in Tokyo. In 2014 Izumi Tateno performed "Snow on the Seashore - in memoriam of the victims of the earthquake and the tsunami Op. 122" in the Berlin Philharmonie Chamber Music Hall. In 2015 members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra performed "Concerto for Violin and Percussions Op. 110" on the Sunday Chamber Music Concert.

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Kohei Kondo graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art Studies, School of Humanities Kwansei Gakuin University and is a member of both The Japan Federation of Composers and the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM Japanese Section).

 

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