Paul Chihara

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Paul Seiko Chihara (born July 9, 1938) is an American composer. Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, he spent several years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho. Chihara received a B.A. and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Washington and Cornell University, respectively. He received a D.M.A in 1965 from Cornell, studying with Robert Palmer. He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Ernst Pepping in West Berlin, and Gunther Schuller in Tanglewood. He was the first composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Neville Marriner, and is currently on the music faculty of UCLA, where he is the head of the Visual Media Program. Chihara's prize-winning concert works, which include symphonies, concertos, chamber music, choral compositions, and ballets, have been performed to great acclaim both nationally and internationally. His works are concerned with the evolution and expression of highly contrasting colors, textures, and emotional levels, which are often dramatically juxtaposed with one another. His works have been commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Roger Wagner Chorale, the Naumberg Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also received commissions from the Boston and London Symphonies, as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra. He was Composer-in-Residence with the San Francisco Ballet for ten

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Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, Bagatelles, Reveries & Ami

The Paul Chihara Collection Vol. 4

Music of Paul Chihara, Vol. 2

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Chihara: The Tempest

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The Prince of the City (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Music of Paul Chihara

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Paul Chihara: Viola Works

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Paul Chihara

Britten: String Quartet No. 2 / Crawford, J.: String Quartet No. 2 / Chihara: Ellington Fantasy / Sequoia

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