Akira Ifukube - The Artistry of Akira Ifukube, Vol. 4 (Jun'ichi Hirokami)

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Composer: Akira Ifukube

• Symphonic Fantasias Nos. 1-3
• Rondo in Burlesque for Japanese Drum and Orchestra

Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

Date: 1995

Label: King Record

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Akira Ifukube (31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He studied forestry at Hokkaido University and is a self-taught composer. In 1936 Ifukube's first orchestral work, Japanese Rhapsody (1935), won the Tcherepnin Prize in Paris. After this international success he went on to write several more orchestral and chamber works, and gained a teaching position at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s Ifukube was active as a composer of film and concert music, writing scores for some 300 films. From 1976 to 1987, he was president of the Tokyo College of Music.

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Jun'ichi Hirokami (born 5 May 1958 in Tokyo) is a Japanese conductor. He studied viola, piano, conducting and musicology at the Tokyo College of Music, and is the winner of the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in 1984. Hirokami served as Chief Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra from 1991 to 1996, then the Limburg Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2000. From 2008 to 2022 he has achieved a golden era in Kyoto as Chief Conductor as well as Music and Artistic Advisor of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra. He is a professor of conducting division at Tokyo College of Music.

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