Takashi Yoshimatsu

Raised in Yoyogi, Tokyo, Yoshimatsu received no formal musical schooling as a child, yet he later apprenticed with Teizo Matsumura and briefly studied harmony under Manabu Kawai before abandoning formal lessons. After an unpaid debut in 1978, he entered roughly twenty composition contests before winning the Foundation for the Promotion of Symphony Music prize for Dorian in 1980, and his serialist… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources