“Acceptance Speech” Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2024 in Music and Opera

Acceptance speech by Toshio Hosokawa, Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and Opera 2024, recognized for the “extraordinary international scope of his work,” having “built a bridge between Japanese musical tradition and contemporary Western aesthetics.”

Hosokawa reflects on music as a space of encounter between tradition and modernity, shaped by Japanese aesthetics and its dialogue with contemporary language, and highlights the role of sound and silence, as well as the relationship between music, nature and memory, as central elements of his work.