Makoto Shinohara

Makoto Shinohara (1931-2024) was a Japanese composer, born in Osaka, who settled in the Netherlands. He studied in Tokyo with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and in Cologne with Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He worked at the electronic music studio in Utrecht and later wrote much music for traditional Japanese instruments, alone or alongside Western ones. Shinohara worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York in 1971-72 and taught at McGill University in Montreal in 1978.