Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Yamamoto: He completed post-graduate studies in composition at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1992.

So far, he has won numerous prizes, including 3rd place in the BMW musica viva Composition Prize (Germany/1998), 1st prize in the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (2002), and the 13th Akutagawa Award For Music Composition (2003). His compositions have been performed by Nieuw Ensemble, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, etc., and have been broadcast on radio. He is a member of the Nagoya based Musica QuLacoza, and is a professor at the Aichi University of the Arts.