Dai Fujikura
Born in 1977 in Osaka Japan, Dai was fifteen when he moved to UK. The recipient of many composition prizes, he has received numerous international co-commissions from the Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms, Bamberg Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and more. He has been Composer-in-Residence of Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra since 2014 and held the same post at the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France in 2017/18. Dai’s first opera Solaris, co-commissioned by the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Opéra de Lausanne and the Opéra de Lille, had its world premiere in Paris in 2015 and has since gained a worldwide reputation. A new production of Solaris was created and performed at the Staatstheater Augsburg in 2018.Then in2018, his second opera, The Gold-Bug, made its world premiere.
In 2017, awarded the Silver Lion Award from the Venice Biennale – an award for groundbreaking composers. Artistic Director since 2017 of the Born Creative Festival at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, a music festival that brings “new sounds” together from around the world.
In 2020, madeheadlines with the Japan premiere performance of Shamisen Concerto and the worldpremiere performance of his fourth piano concerto Akiko’s Piano, among others.
His works are recorded by and released mainly on his own label Minabel Records in collaboration with SONY Music and his compositions are published by Ricordi Berlin.
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