Resume

• 2003

  Hawaii Tokai International College

  University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Honolulu

  HI

  Co-instructor/Graduate Assistant

  University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Texas A&M University

  Honolulu

  Adjunct Lecturer

  Hawaii Tokai International College

• 2002

  Ph.D

  Music

  University of Hawaii at Manoa

• 2000

  English

  Japanese

  From 2000 to 2002 I studied composition with Minoru Miki and took applied lessons on traditional Japanese instruments as a Japanese government-sponsored research student at Tokyo College of Music.

  Composition

  Tokyo College of Music

  Composition studies

  UC Riverside

• 1990

  B.A

  Composition; English and East Asian Studies

  Oberlin College

• The works on this compact disc are hybrid musical soundscapes that reflect the age in which we live

  an era based not necessarily on globalization

  but on partnership based on global cultural interaction

  and represent a cross-section of works I've composed for Japanese instruments over the past decade.\n

  Forest Whispers...

  Minoru Miki

  My English translation of Minoru Miki’s–one of Japan’s most prominent living composers and a pioneer in composing for Japanese instruments–orchestration manual Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. This is a practical manual with contextual and relevant historical information for composers who wish to learn how to compose for traditional Japanese instruments. Widely regarded as the authoritative text on the subject in Japan and China

  it contains hundreds of musical examples

  diagrams

  photographs

  and fingering charts

  and comes complete with two accompanying compact discs of musical examples. The only book of its kind available in English

  I am confident that composers from around the world who have wanted to delve into the world of Japanese instruments now have the resources to do so.

  Composing for Japanese Instruments

  As a composer

  I specialize in working with Japanese and Asian instruments and creating music that explores cross–cultural exchange. While I was strictly trained in Western classical composition and theory

  I have invested over eight years studying traditional Japanese music. My creative activity is focused on expanding and developing the repertoire of contemporary music for traditional Japanese instruments. One of the aims in my compositional approach is to juxtapose different musical cultures and idioms in ways that emphasize their similarities and potential correspondences

  resulting in hybrid modes of cultural expression. In my music

  I strive to distinguish between cross–cultural approaches to composition that are exploitative and highlight surface elements or superficial phenomena

  and those that are based in a sincere effort to understand other musical cultures with a sense of responsibility and integrity. This is the type of creative work that has the potential to endure and positively contribute to the global circulation of ideas across cultures. By blurring the distinction between the clichéd trope of “East” and “West

  ” my music reflects a new era based not on globalization

  but of partnership founded on global cultural interaction.\n\nSpecialties: Cross-cultural approaches to composition

  composing for Japanese instruments

  Martin P.

  Regan

  Texas A&M University