TOKYO CONCERTS

Born in Mito, Japan, in 1943, Shin-ichiro Ikebe studied composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, Akio Yashiro and Akira Miyoshi. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music with a masters degree in 1971.
As one of Japan's busiest composers of our times, he has actively engaged in a wide range of compositional media, including symphonies, operas and theater pieces, as well as music for radio, television and movies.

He won the first prize for composition at the 35th Japan Music Competition in 1966.
Since then he has received numerous awards including Salzburg TV Opera Festival Award for Death Goddess(1971), Italian Broadcasting Corporation(RAI)
Prize and International Emmy Awards for Carmen(1989). One of his recent works, Les Bois Tristes for Orchestra, was awarded the 1999 Otaka Prize.

Also for film scores, he has received Mainichi Film Music Prize three times and the Japan Academy Music Award six times. His recent works include Dreams(Akira Kurosawa, 1989), Rhapsody in August(Akira Kurosawa, 1991) and The Eel(Shohei Imamura, 1997, Palme d'Or of Festival de Cannes). In addition to these activities, he has published some essays, and also serves as consultant for several concert halls.

He is currently a professor at the Tokyo College of Music.


＜Major Awards＞

・the first prize for composition at the 35th Japan Music Competition with "Construction" - two movements for orchestra - in 1966.
・the Ongaku-no-Tomo Composition Competition with his "Symphony I" in 1968 (composed in 1967).
・Salzburg TV Opera Festival Award in 1971 for Death Goddess
・Japan Arts Festival Awards in 1974, 1982, 1983, and 1984
・two Italian Broadcasting Corporation Awards
・International Emmy Awards in 1989
・three Mainichi Movie Concourse Music Awards
・six Japan Academy Music Awards
・the Otaka Prize for his second time for "Les Bois Tristes for Orchestra" in 1999