Fujiie, Keiko
(b Kyoto, 22 July 1963). Japanese composer. She studied composition and theory to postgraduate level at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Among her many awards are the first prize in the 1986 Japan Music Competition for her Clarinet Concerto, the Young Composers’ Award of the Asian Composers’ League in 1990 for the first movement of her String Trio, and the Otaka Prize, of which she was the first female recipient, for Beber in 1995. Citing the compositional methodology of Yoshio Hachimura as an influence, Fujiie avoids imposing an external structure on a piece, and instead manipulates the energy of each musical event, thereby allowing its structure to form organically. Her works, neo-romantic in style and complex in texture, remain free of the influence of western tendencies. In Pas de deux I (1987) the vitality of ballet informs such textural complexity; in Bodrum Sea (1992) and other works for guitar, lyrical melodic writing alternates freely with intricate atonal patterns. Using a technique reminiscent of collage, various musical idioms unfold in Beber, a work inspired by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. In her monologue opera Niña de cera (1996), Fujiie delicately expresses the character’s changing psychological state.
WORKS
(selective list)
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Dramatic: Niña de cera (monologue op), op.40, Mez, gui, str qnt, pf, 1995; In Their Shoes (dance drama, choreog. K. Jackson), 1998
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Orch: Malposition, op.4, 1985; Panorama, op.6, 1986; Cl Conc., op.7, 1986/1993; Intermezzo, op.8, str, 1986; Jade Sea Panorama, op.20, 1992; Beber, op.33, chbr orch, 1994; Gui Conc. no.1, op.49, 1997; Academic Festival Ov. ‘May this Brilliance Shine through a Thousand Springs!’, op.52, 1997; Kyoto, Reverberation, op.53, gui, db, orch, 1997; Gui Conc. no.2 ‘Koisuchō’, 1999; 4 Seasons, after Li Bai, str, 1999
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Chbr: Shinju-sho, op.1, fl, cl, vib, pf, 1983; Reunion, op.2, fl, vn, vc, 2 perc, pf, 1984; Str Trio, op.11, 1988/1992; The Night of the Island – Toward the Castle, op.16, perc ens, 1989; Midday Island, op.19, fl, cl, mar, db, pf, 1991; A Cat in a Summer Resort, op.24, shakuhachi, fl, 1992; Flower Garden, op.21, 5 perc, 1992; Shun, op.22, fl, vc, koto, pf, 1992; Samsara, op.28, ww qnt, 1993; Yellow Cow, op.26, ob, accdn, db, 1993; Setsu-getsu, op.29, vn, vc, futozao, 1993; The Blue Turban, op.31, cl, elecs, 1993; Fūjin, op.37, shakuhachi, vc, gui, 1995; Asian Rain Dance, op.47, vn, pf, 1997; Asian Rain Dance – Sequel, op.48, vn, pf, 1997; Be it Dream or Reality, op.50, vc, pf, 1997; The Day Spring Returned, vn, db, str qt, 1998; Profondément, vn, shō, 1998; Sun and Moon, gui, db, 1998; Le rouge et le noir, vn, gui, 1999
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Solo inst: 3 Pieces, op.5, cl, 1985; Pas de deux I, op.9, pf, 1987; Pas de deux II, op.14, pf, 1989; The Rainy Garden, op.15, futozao, 1989; Nagamochi-uta, op.18, traverso, 1991; Bodrum Sea, op.23, gui, 1992; To Far-Off Land, op.25, gui, 1993; Now the Horizon comes into View, op.30, gui, 1993; The Night, op.32, gui, 1994; Dialogue with the Night, op.35, gui, 1995; 3 Poems, op.36, gui, 1995: La Casa, Piececitos, Primavera; Sweet Tenderness, op.38, gui, 1995; The Night Dream, op.45, pf, 1996; Suite no.1, op.41, vn, 1996; Suites on the Water’s Edge, op.51, pf, 1997; Etudes on the Water’s Edge, pf, 1998
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Vocal: A Nocturne upon St Lucy’s Day, op.3, Mez, cl, vn, perc, pf, 1984; Love Song, op.10, S, fl, hp, db, perc, 1987; Maria’s Cheekbone, op.13, Mez, gui, 1989; The Angels …, op.12, chorus, 1989–90; … nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands, op.17, Mez, prep pf, tape, 1990; Legenda de la Tatuana, op.27, T + nar, S, Ct, T, Bar, gui, 1993; Jū-gyū-zu, op.34, male chorus, gui, 1994; The Fountains of Paradise, op.39, chorus, vn, gui, 1995; The Red Calm, op.46, T, shakuhachi, gui, 1996; Sampo [A Walk], op.42, S, gui, 1996; Tombi [A Kite], op.44, S, gui, 1996; Wakare [Farewell], op.43, S, gui, 1996; Nuance, chorus, 1999
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Principal publisher: Zen-on Music Co. Ltd
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YOKO NARAZAKI
Fujikawa, Mayumi
(b Asahikawa, 27 July 1946). Japanese violinist. She learnt the violin with her father and then at the Toho School, Tokyo, continuing her studies in Belgium and Nice, where she spent three summers as a pupil of Leonid Kogan. In Brussels in May 1970 she won the Grand Prix Henri Vieuxtemps by a unanimous vote of the jury. The next month she took second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and was engaged for a tour of the Soviet Union. In 1971 she made her American début with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. She was immediately re-engaged for several more concerts and since then has returned to the USA every season. In 1974 she made her London début with the LSO and she has regularly appeared with all the London orchestras. In 1991 she took the violin part in Mozart's Sinfonia concertante at the Proms. She has also played at the Edinburgh Festival and in other major European cities such as Vienna, Salzburg, Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Brussels and Amsterdam. After a concert with her in London, Lorin Maazel invited her to play in New York and Cleveland. She has also been heard in Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. Until 1990 she seldom revisited Japan, being based mainly in London, but she now goes back to Japan at least once a year to perform concertos with the major orchestras there; and she has made special appearances with the semi-professional orchestra in her home town. Fujikawa is chiefly known as an exponent of the Mozart concertos, all of which she has played on BBC TV and recorded; they suit her refined, lyrical style of playing particularly well. However she has often played chamber music with the pianist Michael Roll and the cellist Richard Markson. Her other recordings include the sonatas of Fauré and Prokofiev.
TULLY POTTER
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