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Japanese composer and artistic director (1930–2011)

This article is about the composer. For the cinematographer, see Minoru Miki (cinematographer).

Minoru Miki (Japanese: 三木 稔, 16 March 1930 – 8 December 2011) was a Japanese composer and Artistic director.

He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their performers.

In his catalogue these traditional instruments figure solo or in various types of ensembles, with and without Western instruments.

His catalogue demonstrates a large stylistic and formal diversity including operas and other kinds of stage music; orchestral, concerto, chamber and solo music, as well as music for films. His work has found international recognition placing Miki in the company of other celebrated Japanese composers such as Tōru Takemitsu.^{[citation needed]}

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