Welcome to Tetsuya's Music World!
Welcome to Tetsuya's music world! This page contains a compilation of the songs composed myself so far across various music genres.
Jazz/Fusion
Altitude: 33000ft (an image in the air, as the title says)
Bossa Bosa (my first written Bossa; only a single chorus)
Intermezzo (the original piece of the Prelude No.6 Rhythmatic)
Popular
The below are the sketches played with DTM sounds, only a single chorus. Hope to complete these soon, with the lyrics (may better ask other experts for this?).
Song1 (my first pop song, written for U'dgz, a folk rock/J-Pop band, where I performed as a pianist some time ago. Later, a complete song appeared as "Blue Shirt" in the style of Montuno)
Song2 (probably fit to a ballade for a lady?)
Song3 (a flavour of acid jazz, original tune of the Prelude No.3 Faraway)
Song5 (another tune written for U'dgz. Later, this song was expanded and titled "someday for sure")
Song6 (sunshine train)
Song7 (a ballade with a colour of urbanised city, like Tokyo, the flabour is a bit like "Isso-Serenade" of Yosuke Inoue)
Song8 (a song for a hero of the rice farm!)
Song9 (a cha-cha-cha song, right match at a relaxing beach)
Song10 (a ballade, expecting the lyrics with something encouraging for this one. Somewhat reminding me of a j-pop song "American
Feeling" by Circus, a JPop group, because the key is the same Ab major and the core phrase with the major 6th interval chorus)
Song11 (a song of somewhat bluesy)
Song12 (a song for group-idol, such as AKB48)
Song13 (would be nice with big-band on the back, maybe good for the BGM magic-show? (:) )
Song14 (a ballade, nice to listen on the seashore)
Song15 (a rocky ballade)
Song16 (a swing, somewhat a taste of the so-called Taisho-Roman period)
Song17 (another rocky ballade)
Song18 (a ballade for the seashore in the evening)
Song19 (yet another rocky ballade, somewhat a twin of Song 15 or 17)
Song20 (a ballade in the winter time/a rainy day, in the mood of Showa-period?)
Song21 (for this song, the melody suddenly came down to me, on one day during I was having a dream; I got up immediately, so as not to
forget it, when I became aware of it.)
Song22 (a peaceful song, just hit upon the melody while I belonged to U'dgz)
Folk/Others
Let's dance, Chan-Chara! (a popular ballade, composed (and partially with the lyrics, too) for dancing Bon-odori time around at
Ohsezaki, Shizuoka; this song was given as an oblation to the Ose-shrine two years ago)
Lovely Jutaro tangerine (a song composed with lyrics for promoting our local Jutaro tangerine)
Classical (Solo Piano)
24 Prelude Impromptus (2020)
Some of my own playing:
No.3 Db Major "Fanfare" (awarded in the 28th TIAA National Composition Competition)
No.6 D Minor "Rhysmatic" (won a First Place in the Professional International category at the 2020 Golden Key Piano Composition Competition)
No.10 E Minor "Faraway" (awarded in the 28th TIAA National Composition Competition)
No.11 F Major "In the Field in the Spring" (awarded in the 28th TIAA National Composition Competition)
No.16 G Minor "Spanish"
No.19 A Major "A Single Flower by the Roadside"
No.20 A Minor "In Japanese Style" (this piece contains lots of ingredients for composing my own "Japanese" piano concerto, currently in progress)
Classical (Orchestra)
RIKEN Prelude No.1 (played every time when the instrumental music society of RIKEN holds their seasonal concerts)
Robo Suite (2021; total approx. 19min.; Awarded 'Distinguished Musician' Prize by 2022 IBLA Grand Prize) - A CD including the five tunes below will be on sale and also available via iTunes and Spotify in Autumn 2022.
The Birth
Learn Things from the Doctor
Learn Arts with the Doctor
Loss of the Doctor
An Orchestral Variation on the Theme of Jun
Biography (Tetsuya Hoya)
Tetsuya Hoya was born in Tokyo. In 1992 and 1994, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree, respectively, in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, both from Meiji University, Japan. In 1998, he was awarded a Ph. D. degree from Imperial College London. After spending three years at Imperial College as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, he joined in 2000 the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute for Physical and Chemical Research), Japan, as a Research Scientist. He is currently a Professor at the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, College of Science and Technology and Graduate School of Nihon University, respectively. Whilst actively involving in a wide spectrum of the research studies relevant to artificial intelligence, Tetsuya has long been involved in many music activities as an amateur pianist, arranger, and composer in various genres from jazz/fusion, popular, folk rock, to classical music. In Apr. 2017, he was awarded a Special Prize for the 39th Music Composition at Oikawa Classical Music Office, Japan. In Jan. 2020, a First Place was brought to the Prelude Impromptu No. 6 at the Golden Key Piano Composition Competition, and, subsequently in May 2020, the preludes No.3, No.10, and No.11 won a prize at the 28th national composition competition held by the Tokyo International Association of Artists (TIAA). In Sept. 2022, he was awarded 'Distinguished Musician' prize by the IBLA Foundation for the orchestral work Robo Suite.
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