Toshiro Mayuzumi

Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997) was a Japanese composer born in Yokohama who studied composition at the Tokyo Music School and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where he encountered serial and electronic music techniques that would shape his subsequent work. He was one of the most internationally engaged Japanese composers of the postwar period, actively participating in the European new music scene while maintaining a deep engagement with Japanese musical traditions.

In 1964, he began planning and presenting the long-running Japanese television series Daimei no nai ongakukai (Untitled Concerts), which introduced Japanese audiences to experimental and contemporary music.