Japan Composer's Association
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The Japan Composer's Association, or JACOMPA (日本作曲家協会 in Japanese
) is an organization of Japanese composers, established in 1959. Among its members are some of Japan's most renowned composers of contemporary classical music
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Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
) is an organization of Japanese composers, established in 1959. Among its members are some of Japan's most renowned composers of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
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Presidents
- Masao KogaMasao Kogawas a Japanese composer and guitarist known for creating melodies, and a pioneer of Japanese popular music. He was regarded as a notable figure for establishing the genre enka, though Koga considered that he was a ryūkōka composer...
(1958-1978) - Ryoichi HattoriRyoichi Hattoriwas a Japanese pop and jazz composer. Katsuhisa Hattori is his son. He had a great influence on Japanese pop and was awarded the People's Honor Award. Japanese jazz was downtrodden during World War II, but he created a jazz boom in Japan after the war. He composed many songs for various artists...
(1978-1993) - Tadashi Yoshida (1993-1997)
- Toru Funamura (1997-2005)
- Minoru Endo (2005-2008)
- Takashi Miki (2008-2009)
- Katsuhisa Hattori (2009-)