Kazuhiro Morita (森田一浩 or Morita Kazuhiro, born 1952 in Tokyo; died 2021) was a Japanese composer and arranger.

Morita studied with Yoshio Hasegawa at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He is known as an arranger, reworking pieces like Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland, Galánta Dances by Zoltán Kodály, Don Juan and an excerpt from Salome by Richard Strauss, The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók, Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler, the second suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff. He is also noted for his arrangements of anime scores (including Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, and Kiki's Delivery Service) and his original compositions. He teaches at Shobi University.

Kazuhiro Morita

Works

Band

Pop Step March

Serenade

Flower Clock

Fanfare I

Mana in October

Canticle of the South

Chamber works

Aubade for clarinet ensemble

Bagatelles on the name of Bach for clarinet ensemble

Kumamoto Folk Tunes for clarinet ensemble

Pele for clarinet quartet

Rumba sequence for clarinet quartet

Elegia, Ritmica and Sambo-Ostinato for clarinet ensemble

Terpsichore I for brass octet

References

1952 births

2021 deaths

Japanese classical composers

Japanese male classical composers

Japanese music arrangers

Kazuhiro Morita