Akira Nishimura
About Akira Nishimura
Akira Nishimura (西村 朗 Nishimura Akira, born September 8, 1953 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese composer. Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional Music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, etc., all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. Nishimura has won many awards for his works, as listed below.
Top Tracks
Kala
A Stream After Dark for Piano and Orchestra
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. 1
Nishimura: String Quartet No. 2 "Pulses of Light": Pt. 2
Taqsim
Ketiak
Fantasia on Song of the Birds
3 Visions: No. 3. Invoker
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