Sheet music in detail
Ten Fantasies - Vol.1
About the composer
Yôko NakamuraYôko Nakamura (*1957) started learning composition at the age of 15 under Masato Uchida, who studied under André Jolivet at the Paris Conservatoire. She graduated from the Composition Department, Faculty of Music, TokyoUniversity of the Arts, where she studied under Prof. Atsutada Otaka, who learned from H. Dutilleux, M. Bitsch and M. Deruflé. At the same time she learned from the late composer T. Ikenouchi, who was the first Japanese to graduate from Paris Conservatoire and introduced the Écriture of the Paris Conservatoire to Japan. In 2007 Yôko Nakamura released the CD "Wolfgang Boettcher plays Japan", which contains her "Suite No.1 for unaccompanied cello". That Suite is published at "Ries&Erler, Berlin".
Her Rainbow cello trios for young cellists are published by the Musikverlag Hauke Hack.
About the composition
In the first volume of Yoko Nakamura's 10 Fantasies, which she dedicated to Prof. Wolfgang Boettcher, we find the following movements:
Ancient Dance - The Horse-Drawn Sleigh - Gabrielli - Raindrop Dance - Four Pairs of Castanets
With a light, tonal sound language, the composer addresses young cellists with these 10 Fantasies.