Toshio Hosokawa

Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer, born in Hiroshima in 1955. He trained in Germany and then turned back to Japanese tradition, including gagaku court music. His orchestral, chamber and stage works often take nature and the individual's place in it as their subject. Hosokawa moved to Berlin in 1976 to study composition with Isang Yun, and from 1983 studied with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg. He first attended the Darmstadt summer courses in 1980 and has taught there since 1990.