1. biografia

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Akira NISHIMURA
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cap, luogo (Provincia), Japan
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luogo e data di nascita: Osaka (Japan), 1953

Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, aesthetics,cosmology and the heterophonic concepts, all of which had a lasting influence on his music.
He won several national and international awards including the 36th Suntory Music Award (2004) and has been commissioned by many overseas music festivals.
Nishimura was the judge at the 2007 Toru Takemitsu composition award.
He is now a professor at the Tokyo College of Music, and the musical director of Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka.