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Biography

Hiroaki Zakoji (1958-87)
Japanese Version
 
 
 

Date

Event

Age

20/01/1958

Born in Tokyo

 

0

1962

Started learning how to play the piano

 

4

1974

Started studying composition under Masanobu Kimura in Hokkaido.

 

16

1978

Entered Music Department of Nihon University, Tokyo
Learned piano under Midori Matsuya and Sumire Hoshino
Learned composition under Kiyohiko Kijima
Started learning compostion under Roh Ogura in Kamakura

 

20
18/01/1982

Duo Recital · I
Hiroaki Zakoji / Ryuichi Kobayashi
Asahikawa

 

24

03/1982

Graduated from Music Dep. of Nihon Univ. Tokyo
Entered Institute of Nihon Univ. Tokyo

Organised the Tokyo Shin-Wagaku Consort which regularly played his own and other contemporary composers’ music with Keiji Katsumata and Mari Higuchi

 

24

22/03/1983

Duo Recital · II
Hiroaki Zakoji / Ryuichi Kobayashi
Tokyo

 

25
03/06/1983

Concert Evening · Ryuichi Kobayashi / Hiroaki Zakoji in Tokyo
Homage for Chopin

 

25

02/07/1983

Organised concert: “Japanese Composers I
Teizo Matsumura
” in Tokyo

 

25

09/08/1983

Organised 20th Centrury Music I “Evening of Messiaen” in Tokyo

 

25

09/09/1983

Organised “Hiroaki Zakoji Works Recital I” in Tokyo
Composition I (Op.8) Composition II (Op.11)
Composition III (Op.13) String Quartet (Op.12-a)
Variations for Solo Cello (Op.16)  Piano Trio (Op.23)
From the Abyss of Death (Op.19) were performed

 

25

03/12/1983

Organised concert: “Japanese composers II Roh Ogura” in Tokyo

 

25

03/1984

Completed his study at Institute of Nihon Univ. Tokyo

 

26

03/07/1984

Swiss Contemporary Composers
Tokyo

 

26

03/12/1984

Participated in the concert in Basel
Variations for Solo Violoncello (Op16) was performed.

 

26

06/05/1985

Invited by ISCM and performed Piano Piece I (Op.28) in Basel
(1st performance)

 

27

28/06/1985

Mono Morphology II (Op.27) was performed in OGD Concert for
Contemporary Works '85 in Sendai Page1 Page2

 

27

30/07/1985

Organised “Hiroaki Zakoji Works Recital II” in Tokyo
Ame-No-Uzume (Op.4)  Quintet (Op.24)
Piano Piece I (Op.28) Chamber Cell Concerto (Op.29-a) were performed

 

27

26/02/1986

Organised and performed Concert "20th Century Music IV"
Swiss and Japanese Works with traditional instruments

Suite for Traditional Instruments, Traverso, Va da Gamba, Cembalo (Op.34) was performed.

 

28
18/03/1986

Participated in the Lecture Concert, cross-over of Poem & Music, Tokyo

 

28

24/05/1986

Performed Piano Concerto by Lieni Wegmann and his own  Piano Piece III (Op.36) in Arlesheim near Basel, (1st performance)

 

28

30/05/1986

Performed Composition VI (Op.37)
in Albireo Concert III

 

28

03/06/1986

Entered Buddhist International Music Competition II
Continuum (Op.18) was performed by Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under Hiroyuki Iwaki

 

28

19/06/1986

Organised “Hiroaki Zakoji Works Recital III” in Tokyo
Piano Piece I (Op.28)  Piano Piece II (Op.30)
Piano Piece III (Op.36)  Monodia (Op.31)
Mono Morphology III (Op.33)  Composition V (Op.26) were performed

 

28

08/1986

Composition II (Op.11), Composition III (Op.13) were broadcast by Radio Madrid, Spain

 

28

08/08/1986

Performed Morphology (Op.38) in
Duo Recital III
Hiroaki Zakoji / Ryuichi Kobayashi

 

28

09/10/1986

Organised concert
Japanese and Swiss Contemporary works
Performed Piano Piece I.II.III.

 

28

04/12/1986

Organised concert
Japanese Composers III – Michio Mamiya

 

28

29/01/1987

Died by acute cardiac failure in Tokyo

 

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