Hikari Kiyama

Hikari Kiyama (木山 光 Kiyama Hikari, born 14 October 1983 in Konkō, Okayama) is a Japanese contemporary music composer.

Brief biography

Kiyama graduated from Joto Municipal High School in 2002, and from Tokyo College of Music in 2006. He has since studied at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. His teachers have included Koujiba Tomiko, Minoru Miki, Beat Furrer, Joji Yuasa, Yoriaki Matsudaira, and Hosukawa Toshio. His work is challenging and discordant, with influences including Tan Dun, Iannis Xenakis, Brian Ferneyhough, and Louis Andriessen.

In 2002 Kiyama won the Tong Piano Duet Composition Contest, and his work was performed for the first time out of Japan (in Great Britain). He has also received awards and commendations in various other composition competitions in Japan, and has had work performed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.

A chamber work was featured in the Dutch Gaudeamus week music festival, being performed by the experimental ensemble LOOS September, 2006, and is scheduled for publication.

External links

Gaudeamus music week

Heiderberg

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