AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG - Meet the webmaster

Erik Homenick

Webmaster of AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG

Erik Homenick with Kiwami Ifukube (the composer's son) at the composer's Tokyo home in July 2010

Thank you for visiting AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG!

My name is Erik Homenick, I'm 32 and I live in Lakeside, California. I began this website on April 14, 2006 only a few months after Akira Ifukube passed away. As a long-time fan of this composer's film scores and classical compositions, I felt it was my duty to honor the life and history of this great artist, as well as make large amounts of information about him readily available in English.

This site represents years and years of research I have done into the composer. In the summer of 2010, I was most fortunate that this research took me to Japan to visit Hokkaido and see, firsthand, many of the areas where Ifukube lived and worked during his early days as a forestry officer and composer.

Aside from the music of Ifukube, I am also a huge fan of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. In 2009 I attended the annual Sibelius Music Festival in Lahti, Finland. I also visited the home of Sibelius, called Ainola, which is now a museum.

Aside from music, foreign languages are a passion of mine. I have Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Linguistics from San Diego State University and I obtained the Diplôme de français des affaires (Diploma of Business French) from the Paris Chamber of Commerce. I have also studied the Finnish language for many years.

I also enjoy working out, reading, traveling, radio communications and spending time with my dog Molly.

I sincerely hope you enjoy your visit to AKIRAIFUKUBE.ORG.

(To contact me, please send an email to the following address: akira_ifukube_org@yahoo.com)

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