Toshio Hosokawa

is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music. He was the cofounder and artistic director of a Japanese festival for contemporary music and has been a composer in residence at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Lucerne Festival, Warsaw Autumn and Rheingau Musik Festival. His operas premiered at the Munich Biennale and La Monnaie, among others. Hosokawa lives in Nagano and Mainz. Career Hosokawa was born in Hiroshima on 23 October 1955. * 2021: Goethe Medal Compositions IRCAM has a detailed list of Hosokawa’s works, also Schott Music, Opera class=“wikitable sortable” ! Premiere ! Title ! class=unsortable Description ! class=unsortable Libretto and source ! class=unsortable Notes - 19 April 1998, Gasteig / Munich Biennale Vision of Lear Opera in 2 acts, 105’ Tadashi Suzuki, after his stage play The Tale of Lear - 17 March 2012, , Brussels The Raven monodrama for soprano, 45’ Setting of Poe’s The Raven - 24 January 2016, Staatsoper Hamburg Stilles Mee