Shigeru Kan-no
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A Wonderful Experiment, WVE-209Aicá Maragá, WVE-189B
Basset Clarinet Concerto, WVE-235C
Cadance, WVE-167fConcerto Grosso No.7, WVE-271Concerto Grosso No.8, WVE-272CondensationD
Desire to the Spring Breeze, WVE-180iE
Extrem, WVE-29jF
Flute Quartet No.3, WVE-221H
Harmonie von A bis g, WVE-196Hi for American Poet, WVE-167jHogaku No.2 for 5 Players, WVE-222Hornstück, WVE-52I
Imitation No.4, WVE-253Imitation No.5, WVE-254Inspiration IJ
Japan Perspective, WVE-194eJob I, WVE-294Job II, WVE 311Jung und Alt, WVE-274K
Kammersinfonie VII, WVE-291L
Latin molto follemente, WVE-197bLiturgien ohne Worte No.2, WVE-273M
Mini-Pieces for PianoMini-werk XMini-werk XIMini-werk XIIIMiniwerk XIII 'Etude for Viola', WVE-313Mini-werk XVMini-Werk XXI, WVE-323Mini-werk XXIVMini-Werk XXVII, WVE-330Mini-werk XXVIIIMini-werk XXXMini-werk XXXIN
Nagauta-Quartett Supplement, WVE-161dP
Pro-Concerto Grosso, WVE-168bPsalm 100, WVE-43Psalm 46 v 2,3, WVE 189aS
Seehunde, WVE-208bSeehunde, WVE-208cSeguidillas y saltonas, WVE-223Semi-Concerto Grosso I, WVE-168cSpam-Music, WVE-303St Clemens-St Stephen-0 Dimentiom-Tone Police, WVE-192dString Quartet No.10, WVE-263String Quartet No.11, WVE-270String Quartet No.8, WVE-180String Quartet No.9, WVE-197Sub-Kammersinfonie No.4, WVE-188aSupplementary Food, WVE-205aT
Techno-Opera No.1, WVE-195Techno-Opera No.2, WVE-240U
Un déchets, WVE-29aV
Vierdreiunddreissig, WVE-241Ü
Über die Nacht meiner Geburt, WVE-174
WikipediaShigeru Kan-no (菅野 茂, Kan'no Shigeru) (born May 3, 1959) is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.
Shigeru Kan-no was born in Fukushima, Japan. He now lives as a free-lance composer and conductor in Westerwald, Germany. His repertoire includes over 100 operas and 700 concert pieces. He is also a talented performer, able to play piano, organ, violin, cello, percussion and lyre. As a pianist in the contemporary repertoire, he has played the music of Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Giacinto Scelsi, Arvo Pärt, Luciano Berio, Sati, Karkoschka, Blume, etc.
He has won dozens of competitions in composition and conducting, and sixteen bursaries. His conducting experience includes various orchestras and chamber groups, choirs, ensembles for new music, Posaunenchöre (German brass band; literally "trombone choir"), operas and singing concerts, etc. A frequent advisor and teacher to other musicians, he has also served as a jurist for international competitions in composition and singing.
The music of Shigeru Kan-no is restrained, and at the same time, strong and colourful. He composes in every form of classical music and uses many musical techniques: tonal, atonal, chance, noise, pentatonic, hexatonic, serial, micro tone, free-form, electronic, minimal, no repetition, counterpoint, harmony, folk music, jazz, concrete, voluntary, etc. He favours long-form works for large orchestra, and his style shows the influence of
Richard Wagner,
Gustav Mahler,
Arnold Schoenberg,
Havergal Brian,
Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, LaMonte Young, etc.
He studied singing, piano and musical theory in Fukushima with Takeo Endo, Kazutsugu Saito, Chieko Saito and Kunio Suda. In Tokyo, he studied theory with Hideo Arashino, composition with Takehito Shimazu and Akira Nishimura, piano with Yuko Ozaki and Masako Hoshide, and conducting with Kikuo Matsumoto and Kazuhiko Sakamoto. In Vienna, he studied with Karl Österreicher and Leonard Bernstein. In Stuttgart, he studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann, electronic music with Erhard Karkoschka and orchestration with Milko Kelemen. He studied film music with Cong Su in Ludwigsburg, and in Frankfurt he took composition with Hans Zender and conducting with Hans-Dieter Loesch.
His technique and thinking about contemporary composition has influenced many young German composers: Carsten Hennig, Urlich Reuter, Charlotte Seither, etc. His compositional output is over 351 pieces.
