Hiroaki Zakoji

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Hiroaki Zakoji, (jap. 座光寺公明 Zakoji Hiroaki), born Tokyo, January 20, 1958 – died Tokyo, January 29, 1987. He was a Japanese composer and pianist.

He learned composition under Masanobu Kimura when he was a senior high school student in Hokkaidō. He studied at the Art Institute of Nihon University in Tokyo, learned composition under Kiyohiko Kijima and piano under Midori Matsuya. Also he studied composition under Roh Ogura in Kamakura.

In 1982, he organised the Tokyo Shin-Wagaku Consort which regularly played his own and other contemporary composers' music.
In 1984, he performed Japanese contemporary works in Basel, Switzerland. In 1985, he was invited by the IGNM - Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik - and performed his "Piano Piece I" (Op.28) in Basel. In April 1986, he returned to Switzerland where he composed and performed his "Piano Piece III" (Op.36) in Arlesheim near Basel. Also he travelled to Spain and Denmark and wrote an essay for a music journal. "Composition II" (Op.11) and "Composition" III (Op.13) were broadcast by a Spanish radio station. In June 1986, he was one of the finalists in the Buddhist International Music Competition in Tokyo and his "Continuum" (Op.18) was given its first performance by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Hiroyuki Iwaki. He died just a few days after his 29th birthday by acute cardiac failure on the 29th of January 1987 in Tokyo.

He left 38 works in his short life of 28 years and 9 days.

1 Orchestral music tunes
2 Concertos
3 Chamber music
4 Solo performance tunes
5 Solo singing tunes
6 Chorus tunes
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] Orchestral music tunes

Small Symphony for Strings, Op. 3 (1979)
"Conversion" for Orchestra, Op. 7 (1980)
"Meta Polyphony" for Orchestra, Op. 10 (1981)
"Tied-Up Time" for Orchestra, Op. 32 (1982)
"Time-Space Continuum", Op. 18 (1982) - 1st Performance: Buddhist Music International competition Tokyo 1986

[edit] Concertos

Piano Concerto, Op. 21 (1983)
Chamber Cello Concerto, Op. 29 a (1985)
Chamber Cello Concerto, Op. 29 b (1985)

[edit] Chamber music

Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 2 (1979)
"AME-NO-UZUME", Music for Soprano Piano 3 Percussions and 7 Wind Instruments, Op. 4 (1980)
Chamber Symphony, Op. 5 (1980)
Composition I, "From the Inside of Silence" (Flute, Violin, Piano), Op. 8 (1981)
String Quartet, Op. 9 (1981)
String Quartet, Op. 12 a (1981)
Prelude and Fugue for String Quartet, Op. 12 b (1981)
Composition III, "KI" (Shakuhachi, Koto), Op. 13 (1981)
"Time in the Time", for two Marimbas, Op. 17 (1982)
Prelude for Strings, Op. 20 (1982)
Piano Trio, (Piano, Flute, Violin), Op. 23 (1983)
Quintet, (Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, Piano), Op. 24 (1983)
Composition V, Op. 26 (1983)
Monodia,(Flute, Piano), Op. 31 (1985)
Suite for Traditional Instrument, (Traverso, Va.da.Gamba, Cembalo), Op. 34 (1986)
Composition VI, (Shakuhachi, Koto, Piano), Op. 37(1986)