Keiichi Kurokawa composer / arranger

Keiichi Kurokawa was born in Saitama, Japan in 1980. He graduated from Saitama University Faculty of Liberal Arts majoring in East Asian Cultures, and studied music education at Faculty of Education of the university as an auditor for two years afterward. He participated in the Wind Band Club while in school, playing trumpet in junior high and high school, and bass and alto clarinet at university. He began arranging during high school days, and has created many quality arrangements and compositions for wind band and chamber ensembles.

His arrangement, American Riverside Medley (Wind Band / Brass Band) was selected as one of the test pieces of Singapore Youth Festival 2014. Most of his works are published by Brain Music (Japan) and Retsel Mil Publications (Singapore). His composition Marcia Fantasista was performed at KYO-EN, a new band music concert in Japan. He has also arranged music for Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band, JGSDF Middle Army Band and so on.

Kurokawa is quite active as a band director as well. He conducts classes for bands ranging from elementary to community bands not only in Japan, but also foreign countries and areas, in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has been invited as a clinician for many sessions such as clinics by local band associations, masterclasses organized by Yamaha Singapore and Yamaha China, and Taiwan clinic tour by KHS.

His activities are extensive. He regularly writes articles for Band Jornal, supports international band exchange as a coordinator, and has made presentation about band situation in Japan at 2020 WASBE Buñol Conference

He is a member of Japan Band Directors Association (JBA), the principal conductor of Saitama Luminous Wind Orchestra and instructor of computer music (notation software) at Yamaha Music Avenue Shibuya Koendori in Tokyo