Clarinet

As a clarinetist, Onishi has worked with composers active today. Since November 2021, together with Santiago Beis, he plays in the Onishi-Beis Duo, an improvisation duo with live electronics.

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Performances

39 performances

2026 New Music Delaware, Quatuor pour la fin du Temps by Olivier Messiaen, April 26
2026 New Music Delaware, Ossia by Andile Khumalo, April 2
2025 Recording of Improvisations for bass clarinet and waterphone, for video work by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano, Schöppingen, July 23
2025 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, as clarinet/bass clarinetist, S. American Tour, performances in Lima, Medellín, Bogotá, May 13–24
2025 University of Delaware Composition Studio Recital, May 11
2024 University of Delaware Composition Studio Recital, December 10
2024 University of Delaware Composition Studio Recital, December 9
2024 Onishi-Beis Duo performing Coda I in Dialogues (Composers Now), November 9
2024 New Music Delaware: Onishi-Beis Duo and Miles Brown, October 27
2024 Undergraduate Composition Recital, October 13
2024 University of Delaware Composition Studio Recital, May 7
2024 Onishi-Beis Duo, Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, February 23
2024 New Music Delaware: Improvisations, Feb. 17
2023 University of Delaware Composition Studio Recital, December 11
2023 Solo performance, iv 3 (Mark Andre), October 3
2023 Onishi-Beis Duo, at Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 26
2023 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, as clarinet/bass clarinetist and electronics, TX and S. American Tour, performance in Fort Worth, Bogotá, Córdoba, Bariloche, Buenos Aires, May 10–24
2023 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, as bass clarinetist, América Festival, April 10 and 12
2022 Onishi-Beis Duo, at Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 29
2022 The Missouri Symphony, Summer Music Festival (five concerts), July 1–16
2022 Five Kōans, Onishi-Beis Duo, Summer Illuminations Series by Dismal Niche, May 7
2022 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, as clarinet/bass clarinetist for In Rilievo (Santiago Beis)
2022 Columbia Civic Orchestra, February 26
2021 Columbia Civic Orchestra, Holiday Concert, December 11
2021 Onishi-Beis Duo, at Columbia Experimental Music Festival, November 4
2021 Recording, Shapes of Departure with Santiago Beis and Daniel Vega, May 15
2021 Mizzou New Music Ensemble, as conductor/bass clarinetist for Les Exercices Spirituels by George Lewis
2021 Premiere Recording of Aubade with Ashen Clouds, Scarlet Sky by Oswald Huynh (for web streaming at The Sheldon Concert Hall YouTube page)
2020 Recording, Alice Theme – Arrangement for Lemp by Carolina Heredia
2020 Performance of Tides by Bret Bohman at NYCEMF, New York, June (canceled due to the COVID Pandemic)
2020 Postdoctoral Research Presentation (Recital) at the University of Missouri School of Music (canceled due to COVID Pandemic), April 24
2020 First Public Performance, Tides by Bret Bohman, Chicago, March 25 (canceled due to the COVID Pandemic)
2020 Premiere, Gz III by Yoshiaki Onishi, Sheldon Concert Hall, St. Louis, March 6
2019 Recording of Tides by Bret Bohman, University of Missouri
2019 Performance of A.L.I.C.E. by Carolina Heredia, University of Missouri
2012 Recording/Performance of Centauro by Claudio Baroni
2011 Member, Columbia University Orchestra
2007 World-Premiere Performance, Quadrants by Alvin Lucier
2007 US Premiere Performance, Drei Geistliche Konzerte by Hans Werner Henze

Equipment

Soprano Clarinets

Instrument: Buffet Crampon Festival (B-flat and A) (ca. 2002)
Mouthpiece: Vandoren BD5
Ligature: Vandoren Optimum
Reed: Légère European Cut, Strength 3.50/3.75

Bass Clarinet

Instrument: Buffet Crampon Tosca 1195 (2019)
Mouthpiece: Gleichweit, 22-3 and Stephan
Neck: Buffet Crampon Icon
Ligature: Vandoren Optimum
Reed: Légère Signature Cut, Strength 2.75/3