Jo Kondo

Jo Kondo is a Japanese composer of contemporary music, born in Tokyo in 1947. He studied composition at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music with Yoshio Hasegawa and Hiroaki Minami, graduating in 1972. His music often works with hocket and with sharp contrasts of instrumental colour, and a year in New York in 1977-78 brought him into contact with Morton Feldman and John Cage. Jo Kondo's works include Sight Rhythmics, whose chamber version combines violin, banjo, steel drum, electric piano and tuba, and the opera Hagoromo, based on a Noh play.