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Asako Hirobayashi
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Asako Hirobayashi (born 1960) is an Asian-American contemporary composer and harpsichordist.
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== Biography ==
Asako Hirobayashi was born in Japan and began composing and playing piano at age 7. She graduated from college in Japan as a composition major. Later, she encountered the harpsichord in Japan, and connected with it quickly as a good fit for her small hands and her desire to play on rare instruments. She moved to the United States in order to study harpsichord performance and composition at the [[Julliard School]] in the 1990s. She earned a doctorate degree from Juilliard writing a dissertation on Ornamentation in the harpsichord music of [[William Byrd]]. In the early 2000s, she married and moved to Minnesota where she became an active member of the [[Japan America Society of Minnesota]]. She continues to perform locally, nationally, and internationally, while also composing and teaching. Her most recognized compositions include an opera, a Concerto for Four Harpsichords and Strings, and solo harpsichord and chamber pieces.
Hirobayashi's interest in historical instruments led her to collaborate with violinist Margaret Humphrey. They officially decided to start the duo "Cerulean Fire" in 2012. Their mission is to provide the highest quality of music as well as increase the general public's awareness and appreciation of concerts with historical instruments. In 2014 Hirobayashi took over producing a "Music and Flower" show with the group Sogetsu Ikebana Group. This show was had been found started by her friend Eiji Ikeda, a violist of the [[Minnesota Orchestra]].
Performing her own compositions and other great works, Asako makes regular appearances at the Baroque Room in Minneapolis. She has performed in Japan, Carnegie Hall, London, and several global venues. She regularly collaborates with string players and other performers.
Hirobayashi also teaches in her studio at the [[Saint Paul Conservatory]].
== Musical Style ==
Hirobayashi's musical style blends distinct melodic lines and traditional rhythms with structures built from the textures of Ligeti and spectralist composers.
Hirobayashi composes music for solo harpsichord and many combinations of other chamber instruments.
She composed and performed all the works for the CD The Harpsichord in the New Millennium, Albany Music Distribution.
Asako Hirabayashi wrote and composed the opera Yukionna, based on a well known and ancient Japanese folktale. The libretto by Steven Epp of Theatre de la Jeune Lune (and translated by Keiko Kimura and Momoko Tanno) reimagines the tragedy of the Snow Witch Yukionna. The work blends Western opera style with Japanese arias and music.
== Honors ==
Hirobayashi is a regular winner of Minnesota Arts Board grants. She has also won multiple McKnight awards. Her CD The Harpsichord in the New Millenium was selected as one of the five best classical CDs of the year 2010 by Minneapolis Star Tribune and earned the Gold Medal Award from Global Music Awards 2018. She has been artist in residence three times.
== Works ==
== References ==
References
Asako Hirabayashi-
Links explored through google 9
http://bit.ly/2Gf7WbO her work contact info
http://bit.ly/2UAol4y her cd info page
http://bit.ly/2Gf9hzr cd contents website
http://bit.ly/2UF2ZD2 on the ACF
http://bit.ly/2G9wYcc her LinkedIn site
She's on many music sharing platforms: youtube, itunes, spotify, and something called DRAM, Deezer, Pandora, Google Play, many more
http://bit.ly/2UF7X2U classical music archive
She wrote an opera http://bit.ly/2GkwMa7
Opera YUKIONNA (music and story based on Kwaidan by Asako Hirabayashi) performance with Zeitgeist at Nautilus Music-Theater Studio in Lowertown, St. Paul, MN
Opera YUKIONNA (music and story based on Kwaidan by Asako Hirabayashi) performance at the Minneapolis Japanese School - open to students, parents & staff of Minneapolis Japanese School and Mounds Park Academy
It also performed in the Baroque Room http://bit.ly/2UIyrAJ
http://bit.ly/2GsBkvx artist uses her works in recital
http://bit.ly/2UBqjBG Her opera reviewed on MPR
http://bit.ly/2Ghlfso she performs recitals of other composers on harpsichord
http://bit.ly/2UCjYWJ she started a music festival in St. Paul
http://bit.ly/2GgS5tr works performed
http://bit.ly/2UFyiO6 performance of her works with Schubert Club
http://bit.ly/2Gg8Apr she plays her works
http://bit.ly/2UF81Qc wrote a doctor thesis on byrd's harpsichord ornamentation at Julliard
http://bit.ly/2GjlWkG Uses sibelius
Lived in Roseville
http://bit.ly/2UF82ne collaborator
http://bit.ly/2Gf7Wsk performed in early music festival
http://bit.ly/2UF83Yk performs in Italy
http://bit.ly/2GlZXKi Lives in St. Paul?
http://bit.ly/2UDH7YT got the mcknight composers fellowship
http://bit.ly/2Ge0wFQ naxos page in Japanese says she was born in 1960
http://bit.ly/2UE5Igf sales in French
http://bit.ly/2Geyfil performs at Park Square Theatre
http://bit.ly/2UDFhHD one of her works on another cd, compiled by someone else?
http://bit.ly/2GgtgxA her opera was performed at the festival of nations
http://bit.ly/2UDHbb5 MN arts board grantee
http://bit.ly/2Gew4vk maybe has a kid who goes to great river elementary?
She moved to Minnesota in 2001 http://bit.ly/2UDyayB member of Japan America Society of Minnesota
http://bit.ly/2GlZYOm international performer (London)
http://bit.ly/2UBfPCu Asako Hirabayashi (2004 & 2008 Winner)
http://bit.ly/2GiIRwx published scholarly article
http://bit.ly/2UDHdjd founded "The Wolf Gang"
http://bit.ly/2GeyeuN played on local MN radio?
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== External Links ==
External links
http://bit.ly/2UHqPy7 her work page
http://bit.ly/2GhlgMY her facebook page
http://bit.ly/2UDHeUj her website
== Lists ==
Lists to make her findable:
List of female composers by name
• List of composers by name
• List of classical music composers by era
• List of 21st-century classical composers
• List of composers by nationality
• List of piano composers
• List of harpsichordists
• List of Juilliard School people
• List of people from Minnesota
• List of Japanese composers
• List of American composers
• List of Japanese Americans
• List of Japanese women writers
• Chronological list of American classical composers
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