Y2011 Review

There were a lot of things happened in 2011. Although I could not do a lot of things, I can say proudly that I gave my best effort and did what I could in the given situation. The following is a short list of what I did in Y2011.

My Compositions and Arrangements written in 2011

New Choral Compositions, One movement, Standalone

1)　"The Word from Above"

　SATB, with Piano, English

2) "Mae-e (Forward)" Text by Kentaro Sato

   SA ver, SATB, ver, SSAA ver, TTBB ver, a cappella, with piano, or with strings, Japanese

3) "Tsunagari (Connection)" Text by Kentaro Sato

   SA ver, SATB, ver, SSAA ver, TTBB ver, a cappella, with piano, or with strings, Japanese

4) "Title to be anounced later" Text by Kentaro Sato　

  SATB, a cappella or with Piano, Latin

5) "Egao-no Maho (The Magic of a Smile)" Text by Kentaro Sato

 SATB, a cappella or with piano, Japanese

6) "Ima (This Moment)" Text by Kentaro Sato

 SAB, with Piano,  Japanese

7) "Ne Timeas, Maria"

 SATB, a cappella, Latin

8) "Lux Fulgebit"

 SATB, a cappella, Latin

9) "O Filii et Filiae"

 SATB, a cappella, Latin

New Choral Suites, Multi-Movement

1) "Title to be announced later" Text by Kentaro Sato, 6-movement work

 TTBB, with Paino, Latin

2) "Fabulae Persei (Tales of Perseus)" Text by Kentaro Sato

 TTBB, with Piano, or Organ, optional percussions, Latin Lyrics with English/Japanese Narrations

3) "Requiem Pacis"

 New piano accompaniment version now available upon the request from Panamusica, a Japanese publisher.

New Choral Arrangments

1) " Anpanman-no March"

  SA, with Piano, Japanese

2) "Tenohira-wo Taiyo-ni"

  SA, with Piano, Japanes

3) "O Christmas Tree"

TTBB, a cappella, English

Music for Theater and Musical

1) Music for Opening Ceremony of the All-Japan High School Cultural Festival in Fukushima

2) "Niji-no Kakehashi" a children's musical produced by the City of Iwata (Japan)

Library CD

1) "8bit World"

Game Music

1) SQUARE ENIX "Final Fantasy Type-0" Orchestral/Choral Arrangement, Orchestration, Master Recording Production, Lyrics writing and etc.

Country that I visited in 2011

Australia: for recording with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Cantilation for "Final Fantasy Type-0"

What I could do in 2011

1) To construct better work environment

  I moved to an apartment with sound-proof. I also moved to Tokyo-metropolitan area.

2) Conducting　

  More guest-conducting gigs

3) Educational Activity　

  Besides the private lessons and workshop that I do, I started to teach composition/arrangement at Shobi College of Music

4)Composition/Arrangement

  I wrote a lot of choral music in 2011. And for the firtst time, I wrote a multi-movement works for men's ensemble. Also, for the first time, I wrote a piece with can be performed by many types of ensemble (alone or together), and with multiple accompaniment possibility.Technically, I did not write a lot of piece with divisi. I wrote a lot of lyrics too (and in this regard, I would like to acknowledge tremendous scholarly helps from Dr. Robert Zaslavsky).

5) Narration

 I started Japanese narration service mainly for foreign company, and it is going a lot better than I expected.

6) Staying healthy

Besides the a lot of natural disaster and very busy schedule followed, I was able to stay healthy.

(I would like to continue and expand what I did in 2011 into 2012)

What I could not do in 2011

1) Writing blogs

 Men... I did not write at all...

2) Forming my own choral groups and start recording projects

  I really did not have enough free time to do so.

3) Publishing new books

  Because I was very busy for composing and conducting, I have not able to finish books on orchestration, choral technique and etc...

(I would like to improve this in 2012)