Toshio Hosokawa

The classical tradition has been combined with highly innovative imagination by Japan-born pianist and composer Toshio Hosokawa. The first place winner in a composition celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1982, Hosokawa has continued to pave his own path. In an early-1990s interview, he explained that his music is "calligraphy with notes in space and time, notes that come from the world of silence and also return to it." A native of Hiroshima, Hosokawa studied piano and composition in Tokyo as a teenager. He continued to study w...