Yoshiaki Onishi Yoshiaki Onishi Columbia Yoshiaki Onishi is a Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist. As a composer, he is interested in exploring a wide range of instrumental timbres and finding ways to incorporate them in musical syntaxes and forms that disrupt the sense of expectation. He has worked on commissions that have come from such festivals and organizations as Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Takefu International Music Festival, and Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and his music has been performed by ensembles worldwide, including New Japan Philharmonic, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima and JACK Quartet. He is the recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2018 Fromm Commission, and the Gaudeamus Prize 2011. Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany publishes his music. As a conductor deeply engaged in promoting the music of today, he is Co-Director for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and was one of the founding members of Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo. Other ensembles he has worked with as a conductor include Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, ECCE Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Columbia University Orchestra and the University Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Missouri. Increasingly active as a clarinetist and improviser, he has collaborated with composers George Lewis, Carolina Heredia, Oswald Huỳnh, Bret Bohman, and Andrew Crossley. Together with Santiago Beis, he plays in the Onishi-Beis Duo, an electroacoustic improvisation duo. Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015 and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in Music Composition at the University of Missouri School of Music. Profile Photo © 2015 by Stefaren. Yoshiaki Onishi’s tracks Antefenas-Studies, for ensemble and electronics (2018/21) [New Recording] by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2023-06-06T21:21:23Z Bagatelle 1 (2021) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2021-02-22T18:20:15Z Antefenas-Studies, for ensemble and electronics (2018) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2019-02-19T15:52:44Z Envoi III - twelve micro-strophes for ondes Martenot solo (2017) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2017-10-26T23:26:25Z Parti… for violin solo (2012~14, rev. 2015) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2017-10-09T00:01:16Z Envoi II - for string trio (2016) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2017-05-26T13:36:26Z
Antefenas-Studies, for ensemble and electronics (2018/21) [New Recording] by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2023-06-06T21:21:23Z
Antefenas-Studies, for ensemble and electronics (2018) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2019-02-19T15:52:44Z
Envoi III - twelve micro-strophes for ondes Martenot solo (2017) by Yoshiaki Onishi published on 2017-10-26T23:26:25Z
