Nagako Konishi

Nagako Konishi (b. 16 Sept 1945) is a Japanese composer. She was born in Agematsu, Nagano, and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1971. She continued her education at the University of California at Berkeley and served as head of the Japan Federation of Women Composers. She won 1st Prize for Composition in the All-Japan Chorus League, 1971.^[1][2]

Works

Selected works include:

• The Memory from the Wind for 2 Recorders (1990)
• For the sea border for solo piano
• Unasaka e for solo piano
• Indigo Sky for organ
• Misty poem for alto flute and harp
• Away the White (1990)
• Edge of Sea (2004)
• Lamentation for clarinet, piano
• Poetry of Autumn
• Ballade “Love of Melfa”
• Robin Hood Fantasy two pianos
• Icicles

References

1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA252&dq=Nagako+Konishi+(born+1945)&hl=en&ei=rD0VTcXUJYP58AbptoWbDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 24 December 2010. 
2. ^ Cummings, David M. (2000/2001). International who's who in music and musicians' directory. 

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Name	Konishi, Nagako
Alternative names
Short description	Composer
Date of birth	16 September 1945
Place of birth	Agematsu, Nagano, Japan
Date of death
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