Hiro Fujikake

Hiroyuki Fujikake (born 1949), also known by his pen name Hiro Fujikake, is a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player. Life Hiro Fujikake was born in 1949 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1964 he began his musical studies at the High School. Later he attended the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Aichi where he studied composition for four years to complete his bachelor’s degree. He studied a further three years to get the Master of Music at the same university. Fujikake has won numerous awards for his compositions. Such as the Ongaku-no-tomo Composition Prize for “Two Poems for Chorus” in 1970. The second prize of the NHK Mainichi Music Competition for “Threnody” in 1974. The All Japan Band Association’s Test Piece Composition Prize for “Concertino Overture” in 1975. The Japan Mandolin Union Composition Prize for “Pastoral Fantasy” in 1975. The first prize at the Sasagawa competition for “Nostalgic Rhapsody” in 1975 and “Chaconne” in 1976. Japan Symphony Foundation’s Composition Prize for “The Song of Spring” in 1990. The Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium for the symphonic work “The Rope Crest” in 1977. His compositional a