Shingo Matsuura
Composer / Arranger / Dictator /
Music educator / Lecturer /
Bandoneon player on the side / Instruments player for improvisation, educational programs etc. /
Born in Kyoto, JAPAN in 1979. I live in Nara now. I had studied composition with Kei Kondo , composition and Piano with Yoko Kubo, Saxophone with Yasuhiro Shinohara in Osaka College of Music. I studied basic Bandoneon playing technic with Nestor Marconi in Buenos aires, Argentina in 2014-2015. I am an amateur Gidayu-shamisen player of “Rokkakuza” -the traditional Japanese puppet theater in Nose -the north town in Osaka, JAPAN-. I am studying “Hutozao shamisen” with Seisuke Tsuruzawa who is a shamisen player of “Bunraku“.
My speciality is Western Classical and Contemporary music, But I am related to all genres especially Jazz, World Music, Clubculture, Electronica, Sound Art and etc.
Work Experience
2021-present
A lecturer of Kobe Gakuin University (General education)
2018-2021
A lecturer of Mukogawa Women’s University (Composition and Music theory)
2017-present
A lecturer of Osaka Collage of Music (Composition and Music theory)
2008-2013
A researcher of Music Museum of Osaka Collage of Music
2007-present
Freelance musical composer
2005-2007
The fellowship of The Rohm Music Foundation
Education
2004
Osaka Collage of Music
M.A. in music
Prizes and Nominated Works
2017
One of the selected works for The ISCM World New Music Days 2017 (Vancouver), CANADA
2014
The 1st prize and Henk Alkema prize at the 2nd International Alkema Composition Contest, THE NEDERLANDS
2011
The Togashi Prize at the JSCM Aword for composers, JAPAN
2009
The prize at the 3rd international contest for compositions of Schiedmayer Celesta GmbH, GERMANY
2002
The 2nd prize for composition (Orchestral work) at the 71th Japan Music Competition, JAPAN
2002
The public subscription of the set piece of All Japan Wind Competiton in 2003, JAPAN