Teiji Ito

Modern composer Teiji Ito was born in Tokyo in 1935 into a known theater family. When he was six years old, they moved to the U.S., and at this young age Ito made his performing debut as accompanying drummer to the Korean and Japanese dance performance by his mother at the Museum of Natural History in N.Y.C. Ito ran away at the age of 15 and met U.S. experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, and by 1952, was writing film scores for her. He had difficulty finding musicians who could both play a variety of world instruments, and interpret his idiosyncratic scores, and as a result, reco...