Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Award-winning composer Koji Nakano’s music reflects the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection through the formality of music. In 2008, he became the first composer to receive the S&R Washington Award Grand Prize. Nakano has been recognized as one of the major voices among Asian composers of his generation.  

Nakano currently divides his time between USA and Asia as a composer, scholar and an educator. As the co-founder of the Asian Young Musicians’ Connection, he promotes new music by commissioning emerging composers to create music for worldwide professional musicians for its regular concerts, lectures and workshops.  

This fall, Nakano is the Scripps Erma Taylor O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor at Scripps College.