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Dai Fujikura was born in Osaka and has lived in England for more than 20 years. While in England, he has studied music from Edwin Roxburgh, Daryl Runswick, and George Benjamin. He has won a number of prestigious music awards, including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival's Young Composer Award, the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Composition Prize, Austria's Internationaler Wiener Composition Prize, Germany's Paul Hindemith Prize, the 57th Otaka Award and the 19th Akutagawa Composition Award in 2009, and the Kenzo Nakajima Music Award in 2010 as well as the Exxon Mobil Award. Looking at the list of commissions and his performances of those pieces, it's easy to see that he has quickly become a truly international musician. Besides Japan and England, he has also held performances in a variety of locations, including Caracas, Oslo, Venice, Schleswig-Holstein, Lucerne, and Paris. He was given the amazing opportunity to hold a solo concert at Japan's Suntory Hall in October 2012. In London, where he resides with his wife and family, he has received two commissions from the BBC Proms, and his double bass concerto was first performed by the London Sinfonietta. His piece "Atom" is scheduled to be performed for the first time in England by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at their "Total Immersion: Sounds from Japan" concert in 2013. Fujikura's music has been well received in France as well, gaining him multiple commission requests. His first opera (a joint production with Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lausanne Opera, and the Opéra de Lille / directed by Saburo Teshigawara) can be called the magnum opus of this collection of works. The world premiere of his work "Tocar y luchar" was performed by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra and had its first Europe performance at Germany's Ultraschall music festival in Berlin. He was also commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra to compose "Grasping." After first being performed in Korea, the piece was also performed in Munich. Fujikura's works have been featured at Switzerland's Lucerne Festival, Austria's Klangspuren Music Festival, and Norway's Punkt Festival. A piece commissioned by the Oslo Sinfonietta will have its first performance in Norway in 2013. Fujikura has had his pieces performed and conducted by Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, Gustavo Dudamel, Alexander Liebreich, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande's newly appointed principle guest conductor Kazuki Yamada, showing the rising demand of his co-commissioned works throughout the world. To kick off the 2012/2013 season, Fujikura will unveil his piece "Mina" for 5 woodwind and percussion soloists and orchestra on several continents, being performed by the Seattle Symphony, the Bamberg Symphony, and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra. Last year, the co-commission "flare" was performed for the first time by the Arditti Quartet in London, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. The opera "SOLARIS," based on the novel by Stanisław Lem, is scheduled for joint production in France and Switzerland. In 2012, a collection of Fujikura's works were released on the "Secret Forest" album through NMC Recordings. In autumn of 2013, a CD collection of Fujikura's works being performed by International Contemporary Ensemble will be released by the label KAIROS. Scores for his works are published by Ricordi Munich (Universal Music Publishing Group).
