The CMR Spotlight
Katsuhiro Oguri
Katsuhiro Oguri is a Japanese composer, arranger and pianist.
He was born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan in 1962. In 1985 he graduated with a degree in composition from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, where he studied with Teruyuki Noda, Toshiroh Mayuzumi and Akira Miyoshi. In 1988 he received a master's degree in composition from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. He is presently a full-time lecturer in music at Seitoku University in Chiba, as well as a member of the Japanese Society for Contemporary Music, the Japan Federation of Composers,INC. and the Shinshin-Kai (a society of composers in Japan).His original music includes works for multiple media, including mixed chorus, orchestra, piano and electronic instruments.
Mr. Oguri has made realtime MIDI sequences of many piano works, including music by Mozart,
Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin. He has a particular interest in
Debussy, and is in the process of sequencing all of that composer's major works for solo piano, in
conjunction with a series of live piano recitals. His realtime performances are made with a Roland
SC-55 synthesizer. All of his sequences, including original music, are available at his website:
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~k.oguri/indexe.html