Makoto has commissioned many pieces for the marimba from today’s leading composers.
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MAKOTO NAKURA ORIGINAL COMMISSIONS
CONCERTO WITH ORCHESTRA
PHILIP ARMSTRONG: Solar Rites
BENJAMIN C.S. BOYLE: Concerto for marimba and Chamber Orchestra (2015)
KENJI BUNCH: Double Talk: A Conversation for Marimba, Trumpet and Orchestra (2005)
PIERRE JALBERT: Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (2005)
TOSHIO MASHIMA: The Song of A Great Tree— A Concerto for Marimba and Symphonic Band (2008)
TOSHIO MASHIMA: The Song of A Great Tree— A Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra (2014)
KEVIN PUTS: Marimba Concerto (1997)
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ: …Ex Machina for marimba, piano and orchestra (2008)
TSUNEYA TANABE: Rhapsody After 'Beautiful Dreamer'
MARIMBA AND CHOIR
ROBERT PATERSON: I Go Among Trees (2020)
ORIGINAL SOLO WORKS FOR MARIMBA
PHILIP ARMSTRONG: Gaian Pulse for Marimba & Tape
JACOB BANCKS: The Trees Where I Was Born
BENJAMIN C.S. BOYLE: Variations on a Bach Chorale
NIGEL CLARKE: Tangaroa
ANDREW FRANK: Autumn Rhythm III
LANE HARDER: Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Minor
LANE HARDER: Prelude and Fugue in D-flat Major
PIERRE JALBERT: Sonata for Marimba
SHIN KAWABE: Ever Green (2020)
PHILIP LASSER: Bach Echoes (for marimba or grand vibraphone)
MAKOTO NAKURA: Fantasia on The Last Rose of Summer
MOTO OSADA: Sylvan Lay and Pastoral Air
ROBERT PATERSON: Forest Shadows
Jummei Suzuki: La fontaine d’anabasis ou le caprice sur sol la si do re mi (2021)
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ: Winik/Te’ [man/wood]
ANDREW THOMAS: Wind
RICARDO ZOHN-MULDOON: Daphne
CHAMBER MUSIC
Duo
Marimba and Baritone
BENJAMIN C. S. BOYLE: Le ceinture de ciel (2024)
Marimba and Violin
JACOB BANCKS: Arbor una nobilis
Marimba and Cello
PETROS OVSEPYAN: Now the shadow of the pillar…
Marimba and Flute
TSUNEYA TANABE: Recollections of the Inland Sea
Marimba and Clarinet
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ: De Kooning Movements
Two Marimbas
ROBERT PATERSON: Mandala
Vibraphone and Marimba
SHIN KAWABE: Prelude and Fugue (2021)
Vibraphone and Viola
KENJI BUNCH: Duo “From the Verdant Kingdom”
Two Vibraphones
TSUNEYA TANABE: Three Inventions
Marimba and Piano
BENJAMIN C.S. BOYLE: Les bois du paradis
PHILIP LASSER: Chorale Prelude and Passacaillesque
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ: …Ex Machina II Kikai no Mori
Trio
Marimba, Violin and Clarinet
KEVIN PUTS: And Legions Will Rise
Marimba, Violin and Piano
TOSHIO MASHIMA: Kurenai
Marimba, Flute and Cello
MICHAEL TORKE: After the Forest Fire
Trio for Three Keyboard Percussionists
KAZUAKI OGIKUBO: Chorale e Toccata (2025)
Quintet
Marimba, Vln, Vc, DB and Trumpet
KENJI BUNCH: Summer(H)ours
Marimba and Percussion
LANE HARDER: Louis IX in Oaxaca
NORIKO NAKAMURA: Onjou-fu
KAZUAKI OGIKUBO: Toccata (2025)
With Spoken Word
Marimba Solo and Spoken Word
JACOB BANCKS: The Trees Where I was Born--Two Pieces for Marimba after Walt Whitman
Marimba, Vln, Vc and Spoken Word
CARLOS SANCHEZ-GUTIERREZ: The Ocean Calls
Vibraphone, Flute and Spoken Word
DAVID SCHOBER: The Pillow Book—The Four Seasons from Ancient Japan