Name Maki Ishii Role Composer | Parents Bac Ishii Siblings Kan Ishii | |
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Albums Xenakis: Pleiades / Ishii: Concertante (Percussion de Strasbourg feat. marimba: Keiko Abe) Similar People Bac Ishii, Iannis Xenakis, Akio Jissoji | ||
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Maki Ishii (石井 眞木, Ishii Maki, b. May 28, 1936, d. April 8, 2003) was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, and brother of composer Kan Ishii.
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- Tosiya suzuki plays maki ishii black intention
- Maki ishii black intention iii 1977
- Biography
- Selected works
- References
Maki ishii black intention iii 1977
Biography
Born in Tokyo, Ishii studied composition privately (with Akira Ifukube and Tomojiro Ikenouchi) and conducting with Akeo Watanabe from 1952 to 1958 in Tokyo, then moved to Berlin, where he continued his studies under Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer. In 1962 he returned to Japan (Kanazawa and Itoh 2001).
His music has been performed by the taiko group Kodo and he has composed for Japanese instruments as well as symphony orchestra and other Western instruments.
He died in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, at the Kashiwa National Cancer Center of thyroid cancer on April 8, 2003, at the age of 66.
Selected works
Orchestral Music