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| Rei Munakata (1976 - ) | ||
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| Rei composing Red Lantern Behind the Sea in Tuscania, Italy, 2007 | ||||||
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Rei Munakata has written music for chamber groups, ensembles of various sizes, orchestral music, instrumental sound installations, electronics, and conceptual music. Rei's music have been performed by Curious Chamber Players (Stockholm), Gageego! Ensemble (Göteborg), Musica Vitae String Orchestra (Växjö), Havant Symphony Orchestra (Portsmouth), and Connecticut Chamber Players in Siren New Music Festival Göteborg, Euphonia festival Östersund, and Alias New Music Festival Stockholm. The music of Rei has achieved great successes in important concert venues such as Stockholm Konserthuset, Göteborg Konserthuset, and Plex Musikteater Copenhagen. |
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The Mocking Maze (2004) and Night Brewing Windmill (2007) has been selected to represent Sweden for Ung Nordisk Musik Festival 2005 in Helsinki and 2008 in Oslo. Shiomidai Dream (2005) was included in Curious Chamber Players' CCP Nordic Tour 2007 program and performed in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö . Sjömansblock (2007), is included in Bakom Bortom Ensemble Tour program, and will be performed in seven Swedish cities. |
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Rei Munakata was born in Yokohama, Japan, and was raised in both Japan and China as his home countries. In recent years, his home has been USA and Sweden. Rei started his composition study with Noel Zahler at Connecticut College, USA. Then he continued with Ole Lüztow Holm at Musikhögskolan vid Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. |
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| 2 New works for flute solo | ||||||
| Rei is now composing two flute solo pieces in one compositional process based on "Enka" (a genre of Japanese traditional-pop songs). Collaborations with Richard Craig and Yuri Hashimoto. | ||||||
| New work for flute, violin, guitar, video, electronics and/or cassette tape | ||||||
| Commission from Rikskonserter (Sweden). | ||||||
| This composition will be dedicated to Stockholm based trio,Trivium, consists of Hanna Gustavsson, Karin Hellqvist, and Anders Emtell and their personalities are the basic compositional resource. | ||||||
| New work for sho, voice, and violin | ||||||
| Commission from Nuovo Virtuoso (Japan) | ||||||
| This composition will be a part of Nuovo Virtuoso summer project in August 4th 2008 in Tokyo. | ||||||
| New work for chamber ensemble | ||||||
| Commission from Kulturrådet (Sweden) | ||||||
| This composition is a part of project "Swedish Eyes abroad" with four composers (Joakim Sandgren-Paris, Mika Pelo-New York, Hanna Hartman-Berlin, and Rei Munakata-Stockholm/Yokohama). | ||||||
| New work for Trombone solo | ||||||
| Collaboration with the top class trombonis from Göteborg Symphony Orchestra and Gageego Ensemble, Jens Kristian Søgaard. | ||||||
| New work for flute and percussion | ||||||
| Masterful Yuri Hashimoto and Miki Campins specialize in Japanese music, and Rei will put himself into their list of "great Japanese contemporary composers" | ||||||