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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 .
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.
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
Shōgun: The Musical is a musical with a book and lyrics by John Driver and music by Paul Chihara.
With Toru Takemitsu, Chihara was composer-in-residence at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont in 1971. Chihara is currently on the faculty at U.C.L.A. and was also the first composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Conductor.
Active in the ballet world, Mr. Chihara was composer-in-residence at the San Francisco Ballet from 1973–1986. While there, he wrote many trailblazing works, including Shin-ju (based on the “lovers’ suicide” plays by the great Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu), as well as the first full-length American ballet, The Tempest .
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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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