Mr. Kobayashi's A Lark in Snow which is to my mind a piece of poetic extremism. He has pared his material down to very little, and it is very beautifully heard.

Harrison Birtwistle

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Sumio Kobayashi (小林純生 Kobayashi Sumio, born 29 December 1982 in Mie, Japan) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He won at the I.C.O.M.S. 29°Concorso Internazionale di Composizione, Gyeongsangnam-do Special Prize at Isang Yun Prize, was second place at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in 2013, was a finalist at Pablo Casals International Composition Competition in 2015 and won the International Composers' Competition of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016.

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