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The School of Music will present two free concerts and one free lecture in honor of the  composer Takehito Shimazu during his residency at the music school. The first performance, a program featuring Shimazu’s own works, will be Sept. 23 at 8 p.m. The second concert, a program of student works, will be Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m. Both performances will take place in the Roger and Phyllis Dancz Center for New Music, located on the second floor of the music building.
Shimazu will also present a lecture entitled “Possibilities of Contemporary Music for Traditional Instruments.” Presented as part of the Center for Humanities and Arts Distinguished Lecturer Series, the lecture will be given at 1:20 p.m. on Sept. 24 in Robert G. Edge Recital Hall in the music building.
Shimazu, a professor of music at the National Fukushima University in Japan, has been involved in electronic and computer music for more than 20 years. He began his studies in composition at Tokyo-Gakugei University with S. Kai and S. Sumitani. He also attended the Technical University of Berlin as a student of Isang Yun.
Shimazu has received many prizes in international competitions, including the Young Composers Week in Hilchenbach, Germany; the International Wieniawski Composition Competition in Poland; the prestigious Hambach Prize; and the Special Prize of Japanese Culture Ministry for Theater Arts.
His music has been selected four times for performance at the annual International Computer Music Conference.
Shimazu is one of three scholars invited by UGA’s Center for Humanities and Arts for the fall Distinguished Lecturer Series. His residency is being w by the Center for Humanities and Arts, the School of Music, Student Composers for the Research of Electro-Acoustic Music and the College of Arts and Science.
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