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.[citation needed] 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.
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PAUL CHIHARA Interview: Part 1
PAUL CHIHARA Interview: Part 2
PAUL CHIHARA Interview: Part 3
PAUL CHIHARA Interview: Part 4
Music Educator Profile: Film Composer and Professor of Composition Paul Chihara of UCLA
USC Chamber Singers: "Lie Lightly Gentle Earth" by Paul Chihara
PAUL CHIHARA: "Love Music" - (1997-2010) - First Movement, "Allegro, con fantasia"
DANCES & REVERIES by Paul Chihara - Concert for Wind ensemble & double bass
OST The Morning After Music by Paul Chihara
Redwood by Paul Chihara - Rose Wollman, viola, Ross Erickson, percussion
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Paul Chihara: Ceremony III (1973)
MANIMAL / Música por Paul Chihara
Logs by Paul Chihara
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