Toshio Hosokawa

Toshi Hosokawa's Etude I-VI for piano includes all six of Hosokawa's etudes composed between 2011 and 2013.Hosokawa wxplains, Piano is an instrument that was born from European Music, and it is an ext...

Für Walter attempts to musically realize the aspirations of every performer, to create an arc with sound and to reach out to something eternal. Special moments of deeper meaning arise not only in the...

In this work, the instruments weave an innocent texture of sound, as if they were women knitting together in silence, with the magical atmosphere created from their handiwork. The sounds, like plants,...

Three Essays beschreibt unterschiedliche Charakteristika von Pinselstrichen der Kalligraphie als musikalische Linien. Die drei Essays beschreiben eine glatte, gedehnte Linie, eine gepunktete Linie und...

I have composed Knots [Musubi] in celebration of the 80th birthday of Heinz Holliger for whom I have the greatest respect. The title was inspired by the Yin and Yang principle, the central concept of...

In my sixth work for a string quartet, there is a very simple melody concealed in the background. That melody (distant voices) is played within an extremely slow tempo, and the notes which form the me...

The Japanese composer, Toshio Hosokawa, is a wanderer between the cultural worlds of East and West. According to his own statements, he has developed in his home country a feeling for the nature of a...

For me, music has its origins in Shamanism. Shamans communicate with a world we cannot see in our daily lives through singing. Exstasis means to go beyond oneself, the desire to leave the order of ord...

Toshi Hosokawa's Etude I-VI for piano includes all six of Hosokawa's etudes composed between 2011 and 2013. Hosokawa wxplains, "Piano is an instrument that was born from European Music, and it is an e...