The composer Toshio Hosokawa (Hiroshima, 69 years old) won on Tuesday the seventeenth award of knowledge of knowledge in the modality of music and opera, awarded by the BBVA Foundation. The jury has highlighted “the extraordinary reach of his music, which constitutes a bridge between the Japanese tradition and the western contemporary aesthetics.” It is the most important Japanese composer, but also “of one of the most original and acclaimed creators of our time,” continues the jury’s act. With an extensive catalog that covers all the genres that has been inspired “both by Zen philosophy and the use of high rigor and extremely original and recognized richness.”
Hosokawa is not unknown in Spain, where he is currently a resident composer of the Valencia Orchestra. There he premiered in our country his Violin concert “Genesis” (2020), in December. In the past, he starred in a monographic program dedicated to his music in the National Auditorium of Madrid, in the cycle Today’s music of 2004, where several compositions were heard, such as Silent Flowersfor rope quartet (1998), and Voyage Vfor flute and camera orchestra (2001). He wrote his Violin, cello and piano trio (2013) for the Arbós trio and, in 2022, the Musikene Symphony Orchestra Circulating Ocean (2005), a composition that had released the Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival and definitely promoted his music internationally.