Although Dai Fujikura was born in Osaka, Japan, he has now spent more than 20 years in the UK, where he studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh, Daryl Runswick and George Benjamin. During the last decade he has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Huddersfield Festival Young Composers Award and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in this country, Internationaler Wiener Composition Prize and the Paul Hindemith Prize in Austria and Germany respectively, and both the OTAKA and Akutagawa awards in 2009.

Dai's music is inspired by the 'beauty, form and movement of swarms of fish and birds', and by the vivid colours and textures of sounds. This is explored in Secret Forest and Okeanos, which combines oboe, viola and clarinet with Japanese instruments.

Dai's works are frequently performed to an international audience.

Contents:
1. Secret Forest
Art Respirant / Ken Takaseki

2. Rubi(co)n
Kate Romano (clarinet)

3. Phantom Pulse
Lucerne Festival Percussion Group / Michel Cerutti

4. Eternal Escape
Adrian Bradbury (cello)

5-9. Okeanos
Okeanos