Shin-ichiro Ikebe

Shin-ichirō Ikebe (Japanese: 池辺 晋一郎, Ikebe Shin'ichirō^?, born September 15, 1943 in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors, including Kagemusha (1980), MacArthur's Children (1984), Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991), Madadayo (1993), and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001).

He studied composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro, and Akira Miyoshi at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining a master's degree in 1971.

He serves as a professor at the Tokyo College of Music.

He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, Broadcasting Culture Award, Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon.

Selected works

Chamber Music

• LION for brass instruments,(1969).
• ASCENSION for piano,(1974).
• KOHRU for koto,(1977).
• ON THE OTHER SIDE OF RAIN for 4 percussionists,(1978).
• STRATA I for string quartet,(1988).
• STRATA II for solo flute,(1988).
• LA TERRE EST BLEUE COMME UNE ORANGE, for piano,(1989).
• QUINQUEVALENCE for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and piano,(1991).
• FOLKSONGS OF THE ORIENT for SATB choir.

recorded 1991 CAMERATA, CMCD- 50006 Kutsatsu International Concert Hall.

References

• Itoh, Tatsuhiko. 2001. "Ikebe, Shin′ichirō". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

External links

• Shinichirô Ikebe at the Internet Movie Database
• Zen-On Music – Ikebe biography, list of works, discography
• Biography