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Paul Seiko Chihara (born July 9, 1938) is an American composer. [1] Life and career. Chihara was born in Seattle, Washington in 1938. A Japanese American, [2] he spent three years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho due to Executive Order 9066 .
Chihara is currently on the faculty of U.C.L.A. and was the first composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Conductor. Mr. Chihara's prize-winning concert works have been performed in most major cities and arts centers in the U.S. and Europe.
- July 9, 1938
Chihara is currently on the faculty of U.C.L.A. and was the first composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Conductor. Mr. Chihara's prize-winning concert works have been performed in most major cities and arts centers in the U.S. and Europe.
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- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Paul Chihara
Paul Chihara was the founder and chairman of the UCLA Visual Media graduate program, which is devoted to training composers for film, Broadway musicals, and/or the concert stage. He received his doctorate (DMA) from Cornell University in 1965, and studied in Paris with the renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, as well as with Ernst Pepping in ...
Paul Chihara was the founder and chairman of the UCLA Visual Media graduate program, which is devoted to training composers for film, Broadway musicals, and/or the concert stage.
Apr 18, 2012 · Paul Chihara has had a long and distinguished career as a composer for film and concert stage. In this video interview Drew Schnurr sits down with him to learn more about his life,...
Jan 28, 2022 · Paul Chihara was just 4 years old when he and his family were forced from their Seattle home and sent to an incarceration camp in Idaho. Now 83, Chihara returns to his hometown to debut a piece that commemorates 80 years since Executive Order 9066.
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