Discipline: Music Composition

Tsunerori Okamoto

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Tokyo, JAPAN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969
Tsunerori Okamoto Is a Japanese composer and educator. Grantee of United States Fulbright Fund, 1965-1970; Berkshire Music Center fellow in composition, Boston, 1967-1968; resident fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1969. Member American Musicological Society. Lecturer music theory and composition Tohogakuen School Music, Tokyo, 1974—1992. Professor music Tsuru University, Japan, 1978—2005. Freelance composer, since 2005.

Studios

Irving Fine

Tsunerori Okamoto worked in the Irving Fine studio.

Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…

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