Salida's 20th anniversary special project "Dialogue with Shinichiro Ikebe" (planning cooperation: Tokyo Concerts) "Part 1: Memories of Director Akira Kurosawa and 'Kagemusha'" is now available. Currently, Ikebe Shinichiro is the only composer who has worked with director Akira Kurosawa, and we asked him about his memories of director Kurosawa and his first collaboration with him, 'Kagemusha'. What was the "strategy" he tried to meet Kurosawa's strict musical demands? ----- Established in 2004 with the production of the CD "Ikeno Sei's Film Music" (4-disc set), Salida will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2024, and to commemorate this, we have come up with the special project "Dialogue with Shinichiro Ikebe" (planning cooperation: Tokyo Concerts). Although it was uncertain from a scheduling standpoint to talk to composer Shinichiro Ikebe, who will turn 80 in 2023 and is still busily travelling around Japan, a number of unexpected miracles came together to make it happen. ● In connection with Salida CD's latest work "Dialogue between Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka," he worked with director Akira Kurosawa on "Kagemusha," "Dreams," "Rhapsody in August," and "Not Yet." ● Japanese composers such as composer Sei Ikeno, who will mark 20 years since his death in 2024, Akira Ifukube, Fumio Hayasaka, Teizo Matsumura, Toru Takemitsu, Yasushi Akutagawa, Toshiro Mayuzumi, Hikaru Hayashi, and his three teachers Yujiro Ikeuchi, Akio Yashiro, and Akira Miyoshi. ● Directors he has worked with include Shohei Imamura, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Ballad of Narayama" and "The Eel," Hayao Miyazaki, whose directorial debut was "Future Boy Conan," and Akio Jissoji, director of "Murder on D Hill" and "Summer of the Ubume." These precious stories will be distributed on the "Salida Channel" in multiple installments for each theme. For details on future developments and releases, please check the "Salida Homepage." ● "Salida Homepage" → http://salida1.web.fc2.com/index.html ● Salida-produced CD "Dialogue between Akira Kurosawa and Fumio Hayasaka" → http://salida1.web.fc2.com/kurosawaak... ------- [Brief biography of Shinichiro Ikebe] Born September 15, 1943 in Mito City. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1967. Completed graduate school at the same university in 1971. He studied under Ikeuchi Tomojiro, Yashiro Akio, Miyoshi Akira, and Shimaoka Yuzuru. In 1966, he won first place in the Japan Music Competition. In the same year, he won first place in the Ongaku no Tomosha Chamber Music Composition Competition. In 1968, he received the Ongaku no Tomosha Prize. Since then, he has received the Salzburg TV Opera Festival Excellence Award, the Italian Broadcasting Corporation Award three times, the International Emmy Award, the Art Festival Excellence Award four times, the Odaka Award three times, the Mainichi Film Competition Music Award three times, and the Japan Academy Prize for Excellence in Music nine times (including the Grand Prize three times). In 1997, he received the NHK Symphony Orchestra Arima Award, in 2002 the Broadcasting Culture Award, in 2011 the Yokohama Culture Award, in 2015 the Himeji City Arts and Culture Grand Prize, and in 2016 the Watanabe Akio Music Fund Special Award. In 2004, he was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon, and in 2018, he was named a Person of Cultural Merit. In 2010, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Works: Symphony No. 1-11, Piano Concerto (4 pieces), Cello Concerto, Operas "Shinigami", "Mimi-nashi Hoichi", "Rokumeikan", "Kumano Hijiri", and many other orchestral, chamber and choral works. Incidental Music: Films such as "Kagemusha", "The Ballad of Narayama", "Unagi", "Setouchi Shonen Yakyu-dan", "Spy Sorge", "Balto no Gakuen", "Tsunen-dake: The Point of the Tempest", "Carrying Spring on My Shoulders", "Nobutora", TV series "The Eighth Shogun Yoshimune" and "Genroku Ryoran", as well as many other films and dramas, and about 500 theatre works. He has also written many books. ■Major awards◇1st Place, 35th Japan Music Competition [1966] (2nd Movement for Orchestra "Composition") ◇Excellent Award, Salzburg TV Opera Festival [1971] (Opera "Death") ◇Excellent Award, Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival [1974] Dimorphism / [1982] Choral Suite "Doronko no Uta" / [1983] Mixed Choral Suite "Ibun Botchan" / [1984] Oedipus Wanderings◇Italian Broadcasting Corporation Award [1976] Musical Drama "Mogaribue" / [1977] Musical Story "Silence" / [1989] Musical Fantasy "Carmen" ◇International Emmy Award for Excellence [1989] Musical Fantasy "Carmen" ◇Otaka Prize [1991] Symphony IV / [1999] Forest of Sorrow - For Orchestra / [2017] Symphony X ◇ Mainichi Film Music Awards [1980] "Kagemusha" / [1984] "Setouchi Boys Baseball Team" / [1990] "Dream", "Boyhood" ◇ Japan Academy Award for Excellence in Music [1980] "Vengeance is Mine" / [1984] "The Ballad of Narayama", "Okinawa Boy" / [1985] "Setouchi Boys Baseball Team" (Grand Prize) / [1991] "Dream", "Boyhood" (Grand Prize) / [1992] "Rhapsody in August" / [1994] "Not Yet" / [1998] "Eel" / [2003] "Spy Sorge" / [2010] "Tsurugidake" Awarded the "Ten no Ki" (Grand Prize) at the 53rd Broadcasting Culture Awards (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 2002, the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2004, the Yokohama Culture Award in 2011, the Himeji City Arts and Culture Award in 2015, the Watanabe Akio Music Foundation Special Award in 2016, the Person of Cultural Merit in 2018, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2022. Concurrent Positions: Professor Emeritus at Tokyo College of Music, Music Director at Tokyo Opera City, Executive Music Director at Ishikawa Prefectural Music Hall, Music Director at Setagaya Cultural Foundation, Artistic Director at Himeji Cultural Foundation Director: Trustee of Mito City Cultural Promotion Foundation Trustee of Broadcasting Culture Foundation (Profile provided by Tokyo Concerts) ------- [Video Staff] Filming: Tokachi Tsuchiya Editing: Hiroyasu Deguchi Planning cooperation: Tokyo Concerts