Composer concert pianist and conductor, graduated in composition from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1978, he went to Paris and continued his studies at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
In 1994 he organized Tokyo Sinfonietta, specializing in contemporary music, and he had a position of its first musical director between 1994 and 1999. He performed the world premiere’s works of P.Manoury, G. Benjamin, Y. Matsudaira’s works, G. Ligeti, T. Takemitsu.
To date, Mr. Nodaïra has composed over eighty works for orchestra, opera, chamber ensemble, and solo instruments commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, IRCAM, the Deutche Simfonie Orchester Berlin, the National Theatre of Japan... He composed Fire strings, concerto for electric guitar and orchestra premiered by Steve Vai in 2002, the first opera Madrugada (with a libretto by Barry Gifford), premiered under the baton of Kent Nagano in Germany in 2005, and recently, he composed《Iki-no-michi for saxophone and computer at IRCAM, Paris’s Pompidou Center in 2012.
Mr. Nodaïra has received many prizes: the Otaka Award (1995 and 2013), the Education Minister’s Art Encourage Prize for Freshmen (1996), the Suntory Musical Award (2004), Art Encourage Prize offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture (2005). He received the purple ribbon from the Japanese government in 2012.
Mr. Nodaïra is a professor at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (since 2009). He is also artistic director of the concert hall AOI of Shizuoka city.
The composition of this piece uses two materials: the beginning of the third movement, and a fragment in the cadenza of the Concerto for piano "Crossing A.I." which was created in the same concert.
Distortion is applied to all sound parameters, especially in the time axis and pitch. This distortion is, in a way, a substitute for the "development" of material. In particular, it is influenced by two technologies, "time stretch" and "pitch shift" in digital audio signals.
It consists of four chained movements.
Ichiro Nodaira
NOTICE
Triptyque for Orchestra was created on July 13th, 2006 in Tokyo by the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ryusuke Numajiri.
"This piece, commissioned by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Japan, was composed between February and May 2006. It consists of three movements, entitled "Courbe d'intensité", "Jeu de rhythme" and "Ecarts" which are played without interruption.
The first movement begins with an introduction using the noise produced by the friction of two small harps, a cluster of piano and maracas. The orchestra is introduced gradually. Initially its harmony is envelopped with a very simple intensity : a crescendo and a decrescendo. This form, the intensity curve will be complicated little by little.
The second movement has a scherzando character and virtuosity is sought. The possible diversities of time, beats and rhythms exist successively or at the same time.
The third movement is a study of tone colour, or sounds. Its title, "Ecarts" means the inequality or imbalance of successive tones of sound. This inequality is produced by various combinations of instruments and by the number of performers of each party.
Triptych is the result of pieces recently written, many of which have motifs common to those of Madrugada, my first opera composed in 2005." (Ichiro Nodaïra)
Duration: 25 minutes