Akira Nishimura
Akira Nishimura (西村 朗, Nishimura Akira; 8 September 1953 – 7 September 2023) was a Japanese composer from Osaka.
Genre: japanese-contemporary-classical, japanese-classical
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Top Tracks
- 3 Wishes for a Rose (arr. Akira Nishimura for violin and orchestra)
- Purple Bamboo Melody (arr. Akira Nishimura for violin and orchestra)
- Nishimura: String Quartet No. 2 "Pulses of Light": Pt. 2
- Nishimura: String Quartet No. 2 "Pulses of Light": Pt. 1
- Silent Autumn
- Fantasia on Song of the Birds
- Concerto for Timpanist and Five Percussionists - 1988
- Legong - 1988
- Padma in Meditation - 1988
- Tala - 1982
- Ketiak - 1979
- Melodies from Light and Orchestra
- A Stream After Dark for Piano and Orchestra
- Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra "Karura"
- Prelude "Vision in Flames"
- Invoker - From Three Visions No.3
- Fantasia on Song of the Birds
- Whirl Dance
- IRIS OF TIME - Edition chamber music
- Prelude "Vision in Flames"
Albums (30)
- Double Reflet: Nishimura, Debussy, Satie, Taira, Takemitsu, Ravel (2025)
- AVS Presents: 2024 - Flashing Forward Thinking Back (2024)
- OTO=KOTO (2024)
- Landscapes. Takemitsu, Hosokowa & Nishimura (2023)
- Takahashi & Nishimura: Piano Music (2023)
- Mosaic (2022)
- IRIS OF TIME (Edition chamber music) (2021)
- Four Elements, Vol. 3: Wind (2021)
- Envisionings (2019)
- Japonica (2018)
- Smoke (2018)
- Chen Gang & He Zhanhao: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (2015)
- Japanese Contemporary Music (2011)
- Karl Leister Plays Akira Nishimura (2011)
- Envisionings (1970)
- Hereillä / Awake (2008)
- Elegia (2006)
- Karura: Works for Oboe Solo (1970)
- Voices Phantasma, Flame (Music for 20 Stringed-Koto) (2003)
- Kifu Mitsuhashi Plays Akira Nishimura (2001)
- Nishimura: Karura (1970)
- Nanae (2000)
- Taqsim (New Aspect for Japanese Instrument Koto) (1999)
- Nishimura: After Glow (Works for Violin and Orchestra) (1970)
- Música Japonesa para Percusiones (1996)
- Kamunagi: Works for Seventeen-String Koto (1995)
- Xenakis: Pléïades - Nishimura: Ketiak (1995)
- The Min-On Contemporary Music Festival '93 (1994)
- Miki / Takemitsu / Nishimura: Japanese Percussion Music (1989)
- Ketiak - Works of Akira Nishimura (1988)
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