Koji Nakano

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Koji Nakano (b. August, 1974) is a Japanese composer. He received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees with the highest honors in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied with Lee Hyla and John Harbison. Later, he studied with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam and at the Royal Conservatory of The Hagueas the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program Artist. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego, where he studied with Chinary Ung. Dr. Nakano is a member of the American Music Center, the College Music Society and ASCAP.

In addition to being the first recipient of the Toru Takemitsu Award in Composition from the Japan Society of Boston, Mr. Nakano has also received composition awards, fellowships and grants from the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs, the Tanglewood Music Center (Margaret Lee Croft Fellowship), Meet the Composer (Global Connections Grant), the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, the MacDowell Colony, the Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (CSG Fellowship), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Kimmel Harding Nelson Award), the Millay Colony for the Arts (James and Stephania Mcclennen Fellow), the Ragdale Foundation (William and Solange Brown Fellowship for New Musical Composition), the Atlantic Center for the Arts(Coca-cola Foundation Fellowship), the American Music Center (4), ASCAP (8), the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, the New School University, the New England Conservatory and the University of California, San Diego.

[edit] List of Compositions

Chamber works

Time Signals for Brass Quintet, 2007
Time Song II: Howling through Time for female singer, flutist and percussionist, 2006
Takekawa for piano and two percussion, 1999
Brass Quintet, 1998
Collage in Five Movements for saxophone, harp, percussion, violin and violoncello, 1998
A Rock in the Way of A Floating Stream for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion and piano, 1997
Vision for violin, violoncello, piano, 1995-6
A Love Song without Words for violin and piano, 1995
Distance for flute and percussion, 1994
Inside and Outside for violin, violoncello, marimba and piano, 1993
Kyou (Resonance) for piano and percussion, 1992

Orchestral works

Ceremonial: Time Song for orchestra, 2005
Collage for orchestra, 1998-1999

Operatic works

Brush, one act chamber opera, for soprano, baritone, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion and piano, 2004
Arbutus Trees, an operatic scene, for mezzo soprano, baritone and piano, 2002

Vocal works accompanied with chamber orchestra

Dear Soul for soprano, bass and chamber orchestra, 2000
Zone for soprano and chamber orchestra, 1999

Work for chamber orchestra

The Scene Imprinted in My Mind for chamber orchestra, 1995

Concertos

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1996-7
Calling Me from Afar, piano concerto No. 1, 1994

Works for solo instrument

Ancient Songs for solo soprano, 2007
Wind for solo violin, 2003
Wood: Marimba for solo marimba, 2003
Frozen Crystal for solo piano, 2001-2
Silent Voices, dedicated to Toru Takemitsu, for solo clarinet in A, 1996
Elastic for solo violoncello, 1994
Reminiscences three pieces for solo piano, 1991-3

Collaborative works

Seance, an aria, for musical Ghosts in Love, 2003
Incidental music for the Winter's Tale and Coriolanus, for mixed chamber ensemble, 2000
Waves, multimedia piece, for video, piano and three percussionists, 1998
Where Do Our Sorrows Begin?...., for four instruments, 1998