Kazuko Hara
Kazuko Hara was a prolific Japanese opera composer.
Kazuko Hara
- Born
- 1935 · Tokyo.
- Died
- 2014
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- composer
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Tokyo University of the Arts
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kazuko Hara was a prolific Japanese opera composer.
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Kazuko Hara (1935–2014) was a composer, of Japanese and Japanese nationality. The composer was born in Tokyo.
Kazuko Hara was educated at Tokyo University of the Arts. The composer worked for Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.
The work spans opera. Languages used include Japanese. Honours include Medal with Purple Ribbon.
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Life and career
Kazuko Hara studied at Tokyo University of the Arts. The recorded working language is Japanese. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts. Distinctions recorded are Medal with Purple Ribbon.
Born in Tokyo, Kazuko Hara studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, graduating in 1957. She subsequently went to France where she studied with Henri Dutilleux at the Ecole Normale and Alexander Tcherepnin at L'Academie Internationale d'Ete in Nice. She then traveled to Venice, where she studied vocal performance with I.A. Corradetti at the Venice Conservatory, from which she graduated in 1963. Hara then returned to Japan, where she studied Gregorian Chant, eventually becoming an instructor at the Osaka University of Music (1968-85). She died of heart failure on 30 November 2014.
Operas
Operas
• Shārokku Hōmuzu no jikenbo: kokuhaku (The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes: the Confession) after Conan Doyle (1981) • Iwai Uta ga Nagareru Yoruni (1984) • Shita wo Kamikitta Onna (1986) • Sute Hime (1989) • Yosakoi Bushi (1990) • Petro Kibe (1991) • Tsumi to batsu (Crime and Punishment) after Dostoevsky (1999)
Other works
Other works
• Sonatine for piano (1957) • Preludio, aria e toccata for guitar (1970)
Works and compositional style
Between 1978 and 1999 she wrote 18 operas, many of them performed in Tokyo by the Nihon Opera Kyokai or the Nikikai Opera. One work was performed in Italy. In general, she has preferred Japanese subjects; exceptions include her second opera about Sherlock Holmes and an opera based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment written for a large-scale production at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 1999.
Recordings
• Yosakoi Bushi has been recorded and published on Laserdisc. • 'Daniel Quinn performs Guitar music by Japanese composers'. This recording includes Kazuhiro Hara's Prelude Aria and Toccata for guitar solo.
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- 1.Cohen, Aaron I. International encyclopedia of women composers. New York : Books & Music USA. 1987. 978-0-9617485-2-4.
- 2.Kanazawa, Masakata. Hara, Kazuko. Oxford University Press. 2001. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.49291.
- 3.Kanazawa, Masakata. Hara, Kazuko (opera). Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. 2002. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o902122.
- 4.Sadie, Julie Anne. The new Grove dictionary of women composers. Macmillan. 1995. 978-0-333-51598-3.
- 5.5 February 2015.
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