Yoshihiro Kanno | tl

Romanized spelling of 菅野由弘.

Yoshihiro Kanno is a Japanese composer born in Tokyo in 1953, most well-known for the soundtrack to the 1985 film Angel's Egg, by written and animated by Mamoru Oshii.

In 1979, he won the Prince Pierre of Monaco Musical Composition Award
for his "String Quartet," and in 1980 graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a Master's Degree.

His work for ballet, "Mandala," after being premiered in Tokyo in 1987, was performed at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1988 and toured New York and Washington, D.C. in 1991, and in 1994, his "Les Temps de Miroirs--L'Horizontale du Vent" for ryuteki, sho, and electronic music became the recommended work of International Music Council sponsored by UNESCO.

Kanno's compositions are founded on three genres--the Western orchestral music, the Japanese traditional instruments, and the computer music. Employing the various elements freely and unboundedly, he has composed a number of pieces based on Japanese idioms and traditions. .