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Tadashi Kubo, born in 1962 in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan, is a Japanese composer of contemporary music living in Kagoshima, Japan. He is the professor of composition at the International University of Kagoshima School of Music. He is currently the vice president of the Kagoshima City Arts Council, an active member in the East Asian Composer Association (Japanese Chapter committee), the Japan Federation of Composers, the Japan Society for Contemporary Music, and is the Director of the Kyushu- Okinawa composer Association.

History
Tadashi Kubo received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music composition from Tokyo Gakugei University. He also obtained a master’s degree from the Belgium Royal Conservatory of Brussels. While in school at the Brussels Royal Academy he founded the Wonosatoru composers’ society and conferences.

Kubo's compositions have been performed and commissioned by several major international music organizations, such as the Kyushu Contemporary Music Festival (Kyushu-Okinawa composer Association), 2nd 21st-Century Choral Music Festival (2002, Tokyo), Kaleidoscope 2004 (Brussels), Budapest International Contemporary Music Festival "MUSIC OF OUR AGE" (2004, Hungary "Percussion Festival" (Japan Society for Contemporary Music), Contemporary Horizon (2005, International Arts Federation), Korea-Japan Exchanges Creative Song Concert (2005, Korea), Music Exhibition 2005 of Modern East Asian Contemporary Music Festival 2006), 15th World Saxophone Congress (Bangkok 2009), 30th Annual Saxophone Festival (2010, Tokyo), and many others.

Honors and Awards

 * 1983 - The First Annual French-Japanese Contemporary Music Composition Competition Winner
 * 1988 - Tokyo International Guitar Composition Competition Winner
 * 1992 - Kagoshima "Newcomer" Award
 * 1993 - Young Nam International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea); invited composer
 * 1998 - ACL / ISCM Festival (Tokyo, Japan); invited composer
 * 2003 - East Asia International Contemporary Music Festival (Daegu, Korea); invited composer
 * 2004 - Pietore International Music Festival (L'Aquila, Italy); commissioned composer
 * 2005 - Young Nam International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea); invited composer
 * 2005 - Kagoshima Prefectural Arts Award winner
 * 2007 - "Improvisation and theater - JAPAN TODAY" (Munich); commissioned composer
 * 2008 - Capbern Music Festival 2008 (France); invited composer
 * 2009 - 15th World Saxophone Congress (Bangkok); invited composer
 * 2010 - 16th Hapoman Contemporary Music Festival (Korea, Masan); commissioned composer
 * 2011 - Kagoshima Prefectural Arts Award winner
 * 2012 - Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra "Japan-Croatian Contemporary Exhibition" (Zagreb); invited composer
 * 2013 - Japan-Philippines Friendship Cooperation contemporary music festival (Manila); commissioned composer.

Music
Kubo's compositions are of the contemporary, avant-garde, art-music style, which is influenced by other Japanese composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Toshi Ichiyanagi. His compositions include a wide range of cultural influence, primarily that of a traditional Japanese music and Western classical mixture. Using a combination of traditional Japanese pentatonic scales, diatonic scales, and atonality, Kubo recalls the styles of the traditional music of Japan while combining it with a contemporary style.

Orchestral

 * Koku
 * Hymn to Osumi -My Osumi Peninsula- (Mixed Choir, Orchestra)
 * Lamentation

Chamber and Solo

 * Southern Wind (Shakuhachi)
 * Edge of light [helicopter] (Ob., Perc., Pno.)
 * Light Drops (Piano trio)
 * Tree Shadow (Cb. Solo)
 * Rhythm Sauvage (Fl., Mar., Pno.)
 * My Cherry Blossom Tree View (Shakuhachi)
 * Illusionnal Forest (Sax.)

Vocal

 * Evening Fog
 * Outlook
 * Hymn to Osumi -My Osumi Peninsula- (Mixed Choir, Orchestra)
 * Winter Mist (Sop., Pno.)
 * Vocalize (Sop., Pno.)
 * Dream/Reality
 * Dream/Reality
 * Even in the Dream
 * Dream Road
 * The Very Dream
 * Wish (Sop., Pno.)
 * Phantom of Two (Sop., Chamber ensemble)