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The official theme music of CoFesta, “Links,” was composed by Joe Hisaishi, who is one of Japan's leading contemporary composers. In preparation for the inaugural CoFesta (held in 2007), we asked him to write the tune in a quest for a theme tune that would be suitable for a festival celebrating Japanese contents. This piece was unveiled during the opening ceremony of CoFesta 2007. “Links” beautifully expresses the way in which a variety of contents work in concert with each other while linking to one another through spreading and distributing, centered around the “C” mark, which is the first letter of the word “content.” A new version of “Links” which was recorded in London is included in his latest album “Minima_Rhythm” (sold by Universal Music) and was also performed at the “Orchestra Concert 2009 Minima_Rhythm Tour.”
During his days in Kunitachi College of Music, Joe HISAISHI got interest with Minimal-Music, and he started his career as a modern musical composer. In 1981 he released MKWAJI, and in 1982 he gave his first album Information to the world as a solo artist. Since then, he has released Piano Stories, My Lost City, ETUDE 〜a Wish to the Moon〜 and the newest, Another Piano Stories The End of the World〜, and many other solo-albums and established his own style, which is free from traditional boundaries of music genres.
After releasing Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, he was entrusted with music direction for 9 movies including Spirited Away, PONYO on the Cliff by the Sea directed by Hayao MIYAZAKI, and Takeshi KITANO’s HANA-BI, Yojiro TAKITA’s Departures which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars. Joe has won many awards, including a few Japanese Academy Awards for best music.
In recent years, he has been engaged in for foreign movies as a music producer. He has won the Korean Film Award for the Best Music for Welcome to Dongmakgol and also he was given Hong Kong Academy Awards for the Best Music for Chinese movie,The post-modern life of my aunt at. His works are highly regarded abroad.
So far, he has been in charge of the music director for about 60 movies.
In 2001, he made his debut as a film director with Quartet.
He gives musical performance with his own play actively, and he shows us a various style such as piano solo, ensemble, and orchestra every year.
Not to mention the Japan, he extended the field of his activity in the many foreign countries, he acted as a conductor of the orchestra in The General film concert at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. And in the Asian Orchestra Tour 2006, he played with the top musical bands of five cities and the performance was a great hit.
In 2004, he took a position as the first head director of Music in New Japan Phil World Dream Orchestra, which was organized by New Japan Philharmonic.
In August 2008, he held a large scale concert Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - 25 years with Hayao Miyazaki, he was accompanied by a 1200 member musical band including the orchestra organized by 6 groups of wind instruments, the mixed chorus, the brass band and the marching band on the piano. The performance conducted by Joe was a great success.
In January 2009, at “The masterpiece series” presented by OTTAVA, Joe made a brilliant debut as a classical conductor, and he gave a concert named “Joe Hisaishi Classics Vol.1” in May.
The his classic concert from the viewpoint of the modern musician is loved by a wide variety of people.
In future his eager activity as a musician is expected more and more.
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Joe HisaishiDuring his days in Kunitachi College of Music, Joe HISAISHI got interest with Minimal-Music, and he started his career as a modern musical composer. In 1981 he released MKWAJI, and in 1982 he gave his first album Information to the world as a solo artist. Since then, he has released Piano Stories, My Lost City, ETUDE 〜a Wish to the Moon〜 and the newest, Another Piano Stories The End of the World〜, and many other solo-albums and established his own style, which is free from traditional boundaries of music genres.
After releasing Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984, he was entrusted with music direction for 9 movies including Spirited Away, PONYO on the Cliff by the Sea directed by Hayao MIYAZAKI, and Takeshi KITANO’s HANA-BI, Yojiro TAKITA’s Departures which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars. Joe has won many awards, including a few Japanese Academy Awards for best music.
In recent years, he has been engaged in for foreign movies as a music producer. He has won the Korean Film Award for the Best Music for Welcome to Dongmakgol and also he was given Hong Kong Academy Awards for the Best Music for Chinese movie,The post-modern life of my aunt at. His works are highly regarded abroad.
So far, he has been in charge of the music director for about 60 movies.
In 2001, he made his debut as a film director with Quartet.
He gives musical performance with his own play actively, and he shows us a various style such as piano solo, ensemble, and orchestra every year.
Not to mention the Japan, he extended the field of his activity in the many foreign countries, he acted as a conductor of the orchestra in The General film concert at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. And in the Asian Orchestra Tour 2006, he played with the top musical bands of five cities and the performance was a great hit.
In 2004, he took a position as the first head director of Music in New Japan Phil World Dream Orchestra, which was organized by New Japan Philharmonic.
In August 2008, he held a large scale concert Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - 25 years with Hayao Miyazaki, he was accompanied by a 1200 member musical band including the orchestra organized by 6 groups of wind instruments, the mixed chorus, the brass band and the marching band on the piano. The performance conducted by Joe was a great success.
In January 2009, at “The masterpiece series” presented by OTTAVA, Joe made a brilliant debut as a classical conductor, and he gave a concert named “Joe Hisaishi Classics Vol.1” in May.
The his classic concert from the viewpoint of the modern musician is loved by a wide variety of people.
In future his eager activity as a musician is expected more and more.
