Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestar, Tokyo Contemporary Soloists & Yoichi Sugiyama
Biography Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestar, Tokyo Contemporary Soloists & Yoichi Sugiyama
Yoichi Sugiyama
(born 1969 in Tokyo) studied conducting with Emilio Pomàrico and Morihiro Okabe and composition with Franco Donatoni, Sandro Gorli and Akira Miyoshi. He works as a conductor and composer in Europe and Japan.
Since conducting Luigi Nono's opera Prometeo (with the Ensemble Modern Orchestra) in 2000, Sugiyama has appeared at major international contemporary music festivals: Wien Modern, Festival d'Automne (Paris), Milano Musica, Verdi Festival (Parma), Settembre Musica and Suntory Summer Festival. He works with important orchestras and ensembles (including Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Arena di Verona, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Orchester de Chambre de Genève, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali Milano, Orchestra Friuli Venezia Giulia, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Izumi Sinfonietta, Orchestra Regionale Marchigiana, Orchestra Sinfonica della Repubblica di San Marino, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Remix Ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Alter Ego, Collegium Novum Zurich, Icarus Ensemble, Ensemble dell’Accademia della Scala, mdi ensemble).
Yoichi Sugiyama's compositions are performed at international festivals: Biennale di Venezia 2010 (Barcaruola II for ensemble), 2000 (Barcaruola I for viola and percussion, commissioned by the Biennale di Venezia); Milano Musica (Ruscello nel lago, commissioned by Milano Musica 2009), Beyond the Frontier (commissioned by Milano Musica 2003); Tiroler Festspiele Erl 2000 (Intermezzo III for piano, commissioned by Tiroler Festspiele Erl), Angelica Festival (Bologna), REC Festival d'Autunno and Takefu International Music Festival. His Divertimento I for ensemble (1997) is published by Casa Ricordi in Milan. In 2001 Sugiyama wrote Divertimento II for Bruno Canino's piano duo. The performances are regularly broadcast by NHK-FM, RAI and ORF, among others.
In 2014, Sugiyama was awarded the Keizo Saji Prize of the Suntory Foundation for Arts for Last Interview from Africa (dedicated to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the 2011 Fukushima disaster). In 1994, he received the Premio SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori) during a summer course with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana. He attended master classes and workshops with Luis de Pablo (Milan, 1996), György Ligeti (Novara, 1996), Adriano Guarnieri (Milan, 1996) and the London Sinfonietta (Tokyo, 1994).
Yoichi Sugiyama taught as an assistant in the composition courses of Franco Donatoni (1998) and Giacomo Manzoni (1999) in Tokyo. In 1995, he received a composition scholarship from the Italian government. Since then he has lived in Milan and teaches at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano "Claudio Abbado".
