Title: Second String Quartet
Commission: 2018
Completed: 2020
Instrumentation: string quartet
Premiere Location: February 20, 2020 at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
Premiere Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima
Notes:

Japanese-American composer and conductor Yoshiaki Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015. As a composer, he has worked on commissions that have come from such festivals and organizations as Philharmonie Luxembourg, Takefu International Music Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and his music has been performed by many ensembles, including Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. Recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Gaudeamus Prize 2011, his works are published by Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany. As a conductor deeply engaged in promoting the music of today, he is one of the founding members of Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo and currently its Artistic Director/Conductor/Composer Associate. Other ensembles he has worked with as a conductor include Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, ECCE Ensemble and Wet Ink Ensemble. Currently, Onishi is the Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Composition at the University of Missouri and serves as Assistant Conductor for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble.