VIOLIN CONCERTO “On the G String”（2015）

Violin Concerto On the G String is a revised and expanded version of the work that was performed as a required piece at the final round of the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Competition. The piece for the competition became the first movement and the second and third movements were added in this concerto. The work was dedicated to violinist Tatsuki Narita.
Various motifs of the first movement written in 2011 were also used in the second movement Lento and third movement Finale written after four years’ interval. While the motifs appear in different situations，they create a sense of unity of the work. Developing the motifs as time proceeds，I tried to produce a large flow from the first movement to the final movement. In my recent works，I often use consonances that I hardly used when I was writing the first movement. The second movement functions as the transition from the first movement in which consonances never appear to the third movement that appears after the long virtuosic cadenza and is dominated by consonances. I believe that this development is comparable to the dramatic transition from dark to light of Beethoven’s composition.
Consisting of three movements，the first movement functions as a grave character and the third movement concludes the work with a light atmosphere. This mechanical arrangement of movements is based on the traditional concerto form as well as the dramatic composition as stated above. I showed my respect to the classical form that brings unity to the work and at the same time，I attempted a seemingly ambivalent idea that the classical form and the irreversible process in which motifs in the first movement continue to develop and change until the last movement coexist in a single work.

Queen Elisabeth International Grand Prize for Composition - 2011
the 23th Akutagawa Composition Award