The 1997 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Music

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Iannis Xenakis

France / May 29, 1922-2001
Composer

Workshop

Workshop:"Xenakis in Kyoto"

Coordinator/Moderator:
Koji Sano, Professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)

13:00
Opening
Koji Sano
13:05
Greetings
Toyomi Inamori
Managing Director, the Inamori Foundation
13:10
Achievement of Xenakis
Koji Sano
13:20
Introduction of the Laureate
Yuji Takahashi
Composer/Pianist
"Lessons from Xenakis"
13:40
Commemorative Lecture
Iannis Xenakis, Laureate
"Music and Architecture"
14:40
Intermission
 
15:10
Symposium
Xenakis in the 20th Century
Chairperson:
Akimichi Takeda, Professor, Musashino Academia Musicae (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)
Panelists:
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer/Pianist (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)
Kazuoki Fujii, Lecturer, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)
Takahasi Funayama, Professor, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)
Joji Yuasa, Professor, Graduate School of the Nihon University (Member of the Prize Screening Committee)
16:30
Concert
[St/4] for string quartet (1956-1962)
[Mists] for piano solo (1981)
[Tetra] for string quartet (1990)
[Psappha] for percussion solo (1975)
Performer:
Percussion - Sumire Yoshihara
Piano - Tomoko Yazawa
Arbelli String Quartet - Tozawa Tetsuo (Vn), Tomoyuki Hayashi (Vn), Yoichi Yoshitsuru (Va), (Vc)
17:30
Closing
Koji Sano

Workshop Program and Abstract(PDF)