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Uébayashi Yuko
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"A Romance of Orcia" for flute and piano
"A Romance of Orcia" for flute and piano
Yuko Uebayashi: A Romance of Orcia for flute and piano was published in 1998. This piece is based on the landscape of Orcia, a town located in the central part of Italy. Uébayashi visited this town on her spring trips almost every year, inspiring her to compose a four-movement work: Blue Dawn, Piazza, Getting Dark, and Passing.
The music uses a blend of impressionistic harmonies, contemporary techniques, and expressive Japanese lyricism to create programmatic landscape imagery, a signature of Uebayashi's style.
Uébayashi is known for only writing music for musicians with whom she feels an "emotional connection," based upon experiences tied together with the musician she was writing for.
A Romance of Orcia is dedicated to Japanese flutist Nobutaka Shimizu, who premiered it with Jean-Michel Damase at piano in October 1998 in Paris.
“When the first gale of spring comes along, I always set off the place where I named it “Orcia.” Embraced in the beautiful field spreading yonder, I think of the lives of the people
continuing for hundreds of years, and become overwhelmed by the beauty sought and created by these people. I cannot help but love even the run-down gate standing there.
But for this music piece, I cannot find any other word to describe it. Rather, I had to express “Orcia,” for which I could not find words, in the form of a sound. However, as I sat
down to write the music, the “Orcia” that I wanted to express so much began to rise up like a cloud, and no matter how much I chased after it, it somehow seemed to go further and
further away from me. It took a long time for me to express such a feeling in the form of a sound.
What gave me the image for the music was the sweet and elegant fragrance and the wind-like speed as expressed
by the flute played by Shimizu.”
Yuko Uebayashi
Pei-San Chiu (flute), Jou-Ching Huang (piano), live performance on February 4, 2019, National Taipei Recital Hall
A Romance of Orcia
Uébayashi Yuko
Yuko Uébayashi (1958) is a contemporary Japanese composer known for her deeply expressive, lyrical music that beautifully merges elements of French Impressionism with the subtle nuances of traditional Japanese music and the evocative power of film scores.
Born in Kitakyushu, Japan, Uébayashi began composing at a young age. Her first composition was a song inspired by a book about a disobedient dog and was performed on piano by herself in a party for her elementary class. This was the pivotal point where her talent in composition was first recognized.
Yuko Uebayashi’s formal music training started when she was accepted to Kyoto City University of Arts, where she majored in composition and studied with Ryohei Hirose and Komei Abe.
Uébayashi moved to Paris in 1998, a city that profoundly influenced her compositional style. The city’s vibrant artistic environment allowed her to refine a musical language that is often compared to the elegance of Debussy and Ravel. She only writes music for musicians with whom she feels a strong personal and artistic connection.
Uébayashi moved to Paris in 1998, a city that profoundly influenced her compositional style. The city’s vibrant artistic environment allowed her to refine a musical language that is often compared to the elegance of Debussy and Ravel. She only writes music for musicians with whom she feels a strong personal and artistic connection.
She is particularly known for her extensive output of flute music, including a full Sonata for Flute and Piano (2003) and numerous other chamber works.