Masaaki Hayakawa

Masaaki Hayakawa, composer and conductor was born in 1934 in Ichikawa city (near Tokyo).

He showed a gift for music in early childhood and started composing at the age of five. Following graduation from Tokyo University with a Bachelor of Science degree, he entered the Composition Department at the Tokyo University of Arts and graduated from the department with a diploma in 1960.

Hayakawa established the Vivaldi Ensemble Tokyo in 1961 and held a recital for his works in Tokyo in 1964. In 1966 he visited Europe as the conductor of Tokyo University Symphony Orchestra with his Marimba concerto.

In 1971, 1973, 1977, he toured Germany, Austria, England, Belgium and Italy as the conductor of the Vivaldi Emsemble Tokyo again with his works ( Requiem Santi and so on ) and is internationally recognized. Since then he has had several concert tours to U.S.A., Germany, Russia and Switzerland as a guest conductor with his works.

At present, an honorary professor of Hiroshima University, an honorary conductor of Tokyo University Orchestra, an honorary conductor of Ichikawa Symphony Orchestra, an honorary conductor of Musica Neurochirurgiana and so on.