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Yuzo Toyama (外山雄三) was born in Tokyo in 1931. He studied composition under Kan-ichi Shimofusa, a pupil of Paul Hindemith and a conducting student of Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner, both of whom conducted the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in the 1950s. Toyama has served as the principal conductor of a number of orchestras in Japan. As a composer he has been under the influence of Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich in particular, and like Zoltán Kodály he attaches great importance to the use of folk melodies in his works. .

http://reverbnation.com/kathryntoyama http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathryn-Toyama-Solo-Piano/171259022885487 http://www.pandora.com/#/kathryn-toyama Kathryn's music has been described by Solo Piano Publications as “passionate yet serene” with "a mood of quiet yet intense peacefulness.” Her music has evolved on a spiritual path that hopes for harmony within each individual and reaches out to global peace. Based on the results of scientific auditory research which reveal how emotional resonance can be felt through music, she aspires to evoke a sense of comfort, personal healing and spiritual connection through her music. Kathryn is involved with a non-profit organization called Healing With Harmony, whose philosophy echoes her own, comforting the mind, body and...

Makis Ablianitis is an inspired composer and one of the best guitar players in Greece. His relationship with music began at the age of 15 when he got his first guitar. He studied theory by attending seminary courses of Theodoros Antoniou and at the Center of Contemporary Musical Research. Following this, he studied higher theory by graduating from the classes of Fugas and Orchestration with excellent. He concluded his studies at the Berklee Music College of Boston with a scholarship. The period of his studies at Berklee was decisive for his later course as a musician, because at the same...