Akira Nishimura

Person · Open Library

Born

1973

Works

13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Active from

2003-03-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,219

Total plays

6,442

Akira Nishimura (西村 朗 Nishimura Akira, born September 8, 1953 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese composer. Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional Music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, etc., all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. Nishimura has won many awards for his works, as listed below. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Electrochemical Photolysis of Water at a Semiconductor Electrode

   · 1972 · cited 31,965x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,261x

3. Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Organoboron Compounds

   · 1995 · cited 12,137x

4. The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis

   · 2000 · cited 11,837x

5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,798x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Japan

Place of birth

Osaka

Place of death

Tokyo

Occupation

musicologist

Educated at

Tokyo University of the Arts

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Otaka prize

Genre

contemporary classical music

Work location

Osaka

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