Yuzo Toyama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yuzo Toyama

Composer and conductor

Date of Birth: 10-May-1931

Place of Birth: Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture

Profession: composer, conductor, music pedagogue

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Yuzo Toyama (????, Toyama Yuzo) (born 10 May 1931) is a Japanese composer and conductor.
A native of Tokyo, he was a pupil of Kan'ichi Shimofusa; he studied conducting with Kurt Wöss and Wilhelm Loibner and, like them, later became a conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
As a conductor he has served with numerous orchestras throughout Japan; as a composer his prime influences are Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich.
His best-known work is a Rhapsody for Orchestra based on Japanese folk songs. Toyama won the Suntory Music Award in 1982.