He studied composition with
Tomojirō Ikenouchi,
Akio Yashiro, and
Akira Miyoshi at the
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining a master's degree in 1971. He serves as a professor at the
Tokyo College of Music. He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, Broadcasting Culture Award, Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon.
Selected works
Symphony no. 3
Symphony no. 5 "Simplex"
Music to "Kagemusha"
War song
Spirit in the fields
Sanshuu Road
Dreams
List of works
Symphonies
Symphony No. 1, 1967
Petite symphonie, 1969 (rev. 1973)
Symphony No. 2 "Trias", 1979
Symphony No. 3 "Ego phano", 1984
Symphony No. 4, 1990
Symphony No. 5 "Simplex", 1990
Symphony No. 6 "On the Individual Coordinates", 1993
Symphony No. 7 "To the Sympathy for a Drip", 1999
Symphony No. 8 "The Earth/Prayer", 2013
Symphony No. 9 for soprano, baritone and orchestra, 2013
Itoh, Tatsuhiko. 2001. "Ikebe, Shin′ichirō". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by
Stanley Sadie and
John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
He studied composition with
Tomojirō Ikenouchi,
Akio Yashiro, and
Akira Miyoshi at the
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, obtaining a master's degree in 1971. He serves as a professor at the
Tokyo College of Music. He had several awards up to 2004, such as Excellence at the Salzburg TV Opera, The Italian Broadcasting Corporation, that is, RAI, The International Emmy Award, the Otaka Award, Broadcasting Culture Award, Yoshio Sagawa incentive Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon.
Selected works
Symphony no. 3
Symphony no. 5 "Simplex"
Music to "Kagemusha"
War song
Spirit in the fields
Sanshuu Road
Dreams
List of works
Symphonies
Symphony No. 1, 1967
Petite symphonie, 1969 (rev. 1973)
Symphony No. 2 "Trias", 1979
Symphony No. 3 "Ego phano", 1984
Symphony No. 4, 1990
Symphony No. 5 "Simplex", 1990
Symphony No. 6 "On the Individual Coordinates", 1993
Symphony No. 7 "To the Sympathy for a Drip", 1999
Symphony No. 8 "The Earth/Prayer", 2013
Symphony No. 9 for soprano, baritone and orchestra, 2013
Itoh, Tatsuhiko. 2001. "Ikebe, Shin′ichirō". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by
Stanley Sadie and
John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.