Masakazu Natsuda


Masakazu Natsuda is a Japanese composer, former student of Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Career

Natsuda studied musical composition with Jō Kondō, Masayuki Nagatomi and Teruyuki Noda at the Tokyo University of the Arts and Music, where he obtained his Bachelor of Music in 1991 and his Master of Music in 1993. He also studied orchestral conducting with Kazuyoshi Akiyama at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Yokohama. From 1993 to 1997, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey and orchestral conducting with Jean-Sébastien Bereau and the Conservatoire de Paris, where he earned first prizes with praise.
In 1992 he made his debut as a conductor with his composition Morphogenesis in a performance with the New Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Since 1998 he is conductor of the contemporary ensemble Alpha and since 2001 of the "Ensemble Vivo" with which he mainly performs contemporary works such as Voltex Temporum I-III by his former teacher Gérard Grisey and The Desert Music by Steve Reich.

Works

Orchestral music