Yuzo Toyama
Composer, Musical Artist
1931 –
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Who is Yuzo Toyama?
Yūzō Toyama is a Japanese composer and conductor. A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa; he studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner and, like them, later became a conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor he has served with numerous orchestras throughout Japan; as a composer his prime influences are Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich. His best-known work is a Rhapsody for Orchestra based on Japanese folk songs.
Toyama won the Suntory Music Award in 1982.
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