Kawakami, Keitaro

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Last updated:March 9, 2020
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After completing the Composition Course at Showa University of Music's Department of Composition and the Master's Program in Composition (Music Theory Course) at Kunitachi College of Music Graduate School, they moved to France. They completed both specialized programs in Music Writing and Music Analysis at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. Upon recommendation from the faculty of the same conservatoire, they studied as an auditor in the Fugue and Forms class (Thierry Escaich) and the 15th-17th Century Polyphony class (Olivier Trachier) at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris's Music Writing Department. They have studied Composition, Harmony, Counterpoint, and Fugue under Ryuji Toyozumi, the late Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Keishi Ichikawa, Thibault Perrine, Fabien Touchard, and Suzanne Giraud, and Music Analysis and Orchestration under Anthony Girard. Since the 2019 academic year, while serving as a part-time lecturer at Ueno Gakuen University Junior College and instructing students, they have been enrolled in the Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Music, Musicology Area at Kunitachi College of Music, conducting research on the works of Charles Koechlin.