Flute: Kanae Mitsuyoshi
Violin: Kana Miura
Viola: Mayu Noguchi

Ⅰ. Trio1

Kuon (Eternity)for Piano solo (2020)

Bushukan (仏手柑)
for Tendai-Shōmyō (声明) singer and string trio.
This work is dedicated to my dear teacher Kaija Saariaho.
Premiere: Suehiro Shoei and Ensemble Falke,
Tennō-ji (天王寺), Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2022.

Bushukan

Two people who don't click together

Fabien Lévy: les deux ampoules d'un sablier peu à peu se comprennent (1996), for solo harp. Harp: Iris Torossian

Les deux ampoules d'un sablier peu à peu se comprennent; for solo harp

performed by Yusuke Horie(Alto Saxophone) with Nagoya Wind Symphony 
conducted by Takuyuki Kashiwabara
composed by Hirotake Kitakata


Concerto for Saxophone with Wind Orchestra (Live Recording)

Composed in 2015.  Premiered by Yukiko Hirao and AUA Orchestra conducted by Yukihiro Notsu on June 29, 2015.

Harp Concerto No.4

Tosiya Suzuki, recorder
Tadashi Tajima, shakuhachi

March 25, 2017
Yodobashi Church, Tokyo, Japan
Recorded live and mastered by Yoshiaki Onishi

Gz is an abbreviation of Gestaltzerfall, or “shape decomposition,” a psychological phenomenon where one experiences a temporary loss of the ability to recognize certain letters, particularly often experienced in Japanese Kanjis, or Chinese characters. The elements of loss, uncertainty, and doubt are the underlying motivations for composing this work.

Named after Rumanian mathematician Dan Tudor Vuza who researched it extensively, a Vuza canon is a rhythmic, tiling canon with some peculiar musical properties. Even at the maximal density of the canon where all the voices are playing, the overall perception is a continuous flow of the basic pulse unit (in this piece, it is an eighth-note). Furthermore, at that moment, each “pulsation” is enunciated by only one voice. In other words, when one voice is enunciating, the other voices are absent. The end result is something similar to a hocket.

While this piece does start as a 12-part Vuza canon compressed into two voices, its canonic structure becomes distorted little by little, and toward the end of the work, all dissolves into layers of breath sounds.

Commissioned by Tosiya Suzuki, Gz is dedicated to Tosiya Suzuki, Tadashi Tajima who premièred this work, and to Fabien Lévy, who introduced me to the fascinating world of the Vuza canons.

Gz - A Vuza Canon for tenor recorder and shakuhachi (2017)

À la recherche du texte perdu IV (2016)

Juha T. Koskinen (* 1972) is a Finnish composer working internationally with ensembles, soloists and opera companies. He composed music for La Chambre aux Echos, Ensemble Recherche, Quatuor Diotima, Nomad Ensemble, Ensemble Court-Circuit, Ensemble Cairn, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and numerous international soloists. His music theatre projects include the chamber opera Madame de Sade in 2010 and the monologue opera Lusia Rusintytär at Helsinki Festival in 2015. His studies at IRCAM in Paris led Koskinen to electroacoustic music and sound installations, like his collaboration with the light artist Jukka Korpihete for public space. Amongst numerous grants and worldwide residencies, he was awarded the Takefu International Composition Award (Japan). Koskinen studied composition in Finland (with Kaija Saariaho, Kalevi Aho and Paavo Heininen at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki) and France (CNSMD de Lyon with Gilbert Amy, Philippe Manoury and Philippe Schoeller and at Académie européenne de Musique, Aix-en-Provence). His own teaching activities include a visiting professorship of composition at Aichi University of the Arts in Japan since 2016.

Bushukan

JTKoskinen

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