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Kaito Nakahori

COMPOSER

色あせた紙やすり

EVENTS

Nov 17 2024

Tradition and Innovation 2 (Hokutopia International Music Festival 2023, Tokyo, Japan)

"Starlight and FrostⅠ・Ⅱ” [World Premiere]

(Naoyuki Manabe Gagaku Ensemble)

Oct 4-6 2024

3rd Annual New Music Festival (Eugene, Oregon, US)

"Zero 2nd aria (Hazy Forest)” [US Premiere]

(Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble)

Sep 28 2024

Trio Recital (Fukuyama Hall of Art and Culture, Hiroshima, Japan)

"Pictures at an Exhibition (Arrangement of Mussorgsky's piece)”

(Saxophone:Toshikazu Nagase, Masaya Yamashita, Piano:Noritaka Ito)

Aug 30 2024

Tatsuki Narita Stradivarius (Yokoso Rainbow Tower Atrium, Tokyo, Japan)

"Contemplation”

(Violin:Tatsuki Narita)

古い紙の透明

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1989 in Japan, Kaito Nakahori began composing at the age of 14 when Toru Takemitsu's music made a great impression on him. Strongly influenced by Japanese Gagaku music and Western avant-garde music from an early stage, he has focused on the various sounds contained within a single note and advocated the concept of “Spacetime music.'' In 2015, his portrait concert was held at the United Nations in New York, when he conducted and presented his pieces including Summit of Mt. Fuji. Since then, Hotarubi commissioned by Goethe Institut in 2017, Samon commissioned by Kyoto Art Center in 2018, Two Different Paintings commissioned by Tokyo Bunka Kaikan at the 150th anniversary concert of Japan and Hungary diplomatic relations in 2019, Theater Opera Zero (the original text and staging by Oriza Hirata) commissioned by Toyooka Theater Festival in 2020, Electronics Opera Countless Wells (Co-production with IRCAM) commissioned by Fondation Royaumont in 2021, Abyss (dedicated to Arditti Quartet) commissioned by Takefu International Music Festival in 2022 and many other pieces have been gained a good reputation internationally as a contemporary composer. He has won Brian M. Israel Prize (2016) and 1st Prize at Impronta Ensemble Composition Competition (2019), and has given composition lectures at The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome, National University of Colombia, Takefu International Music Festival, Tokyo College of Music and Hiroshima City University. Currently, he is based in New York and Tokyo.

WORKS

Theater Opera Zero (2020)

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World premiere 13/09/2020 at Toyooka Theater Festival

Text/Staging: Oriza Hirata

Composer/Conductor: Kaito Nakahori

"The journey back to the roots of existence"

(Kobe Shimbun)

Electronics Opera Countless Wells (2021)

World premiere 28/08/2021 at Royaumont Abbey

Festival de Royaumont "Carré magique"

Co-production with IRCAM

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Abyss (2022)

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For String Quartet

World premiere 09/09/2022 at Takefu International Music Festival

 

Dedicated to Arditti Quartet

Starlight and Frost 1 (2023)

For Gagaku

World premiere 18/12/2023 at Toyosu Culture Center

 

Commissioned by Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble

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Yaeyama Hirugi (2014)

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For Clarinet and String Quartet

World premiere 13/06/2014 at Middlebury Town Hall Theater

 

1st Prize at Impronta Ensemble Composition Competition

ALBUM

New record album "Mythologies" part of IIKKI's series was released on Nov 21st on Bandcamp. It is an electronic ambient music work composed by Kaito Nakahori and Masaya Ozaki. Art work is by Erwan Morère. 

Khemia Ensemble's debut album "Voyage" was released on May 14th on Bandcamp. It is a collection of the works that were commissioned and/or performed during the inaugural tour of South America. Nakahori's piece "Zero Ⅰ" is collected to the album.

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