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Music of Koji Nakano
Composer Koji Nakano's works reflect the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection
through the formality of music. His works strive to merge several musical traditions and also make
reference to theatre, philosophy, rituals and spirituality.
News Koji has been commissioned by the Jebediah Foundation to compose Time Song V: Mandala for the SF Contemporary Music Players . SFCMP will give the world premiere in San Francisco in the concert season of 2014/2015. Koji is a full-time faculty in composition and an administrative committee member for the MFA and Ph.D. Graduate Programs (in Progress) at Burapha University in Thailand. Koji will compose Time Song IV: Diverse Voices for the Chinese Traditional musicians commissioned by Taipei Chinese Orchestra for the 2012 Traditional Arts Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Koji has been awarded a Short-Term Visiting Scholar Grant from the National Science Council in Taiwan. It supported his Guest Professorship at TNUA as well as his lectures at National National Taiwan University of the Arts, National Chiao Tung University and Taipei Municipal University of Education from November 13-20. In the Fall Semester of 2011 (September 14-October 26), Koji taught a new course as a Visiting Professor for Department of Traditional Music at Taipei National University of the Arts. Koji has been selected as a finalist in music composition of the 2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. The MCC has recognized
29 Massachusetts artists for creating work of exceptional quality in a range of disciplines. The MCC's Artist Fellowship Program will award $7,500 unrestricted grants to 15 artists, and distinguish 14 others as finalists with $500 grants.
-These fellowships give talented individuals the freedom to develop work that will be shown, sold, and performed all over the world.- In 2011, Koji gave a lecture on his music at the University of California at Davis in USA and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
Soprano Stacey Fraser gave the World Premiere of his "Arigatoo" from the opera Spiritual Forest at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on February 20, and at Taipei National Concert Hall on March 1, 2011.
The S&R Foundation presented a recital of Koji's music as the 2008 S&R Washington Grand Prize Winner at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on February 20, 2011. Del Sol String Quartet gave the US Premiere of Koji's Time Song III:Reincarnation "The Birth of a Spirit" (String Quartet Version) at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on February 19, 2011.
Koji received a 2010/2011 ASCAPlus Award. This is his tenth time to receive the annual award since 2001.
Koji is the recipient of The 2010 White Flowers Residncy at Yaddo.
Koji was Composer in Residence for the Burapha University in Bang Saen, Thailand from October 20 to November 18, 2010.
Koji was one of guest composers for the Nong Festival at Korean National University of the Arts from September 6-7, 2010.
Koji was awarded a CAP Grant from the American Music Center for his Time Song III: Reincarnation
"The Birth of a Spirit"
(String Quartet Version), and to attend the world premiere by Borealis String Quartet in Taipei, Taiwan on May 15, 2010.
Ein_Klang Records released CD KOFOMI #14 including Koji's new work Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for flute, bass clarinet, viola and violoncello.
Koji gave a lecture on his music at the Taipei National University of the Arts from 10:30am to 12:10pm on May 10, 2010.
Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio Visual work (film by Tiffany Doesken) with Thai Classical Singers and Piphat Ensemble will be installed during the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days in Sydney, Australia from April 30 to May 9, 2010.
As a Visiting Composer in Residence, Koji gave a series of lectures on his music at the University of Western Sydeny in Australia during May, 2010.
Koji received a MetLife Creative Connetions Grant from Meet the Composer. The grant will support his participation in the Pacific Rim Music Festival as a guest composer from April 21 to 25, 2010. Colloguia in Composition: Koji Nakano, Morrison Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 3-5pm, April 23, 2010.
Koji guest lectured at The University of Texas at Austin, Chapman University, and Sheridan College in March, 2010. Koji was Composer in Residence at the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming from March 8 to April 2, 2010.
Koji received a commission from the 2010 Pacific Rim Music Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz to compose a new piece for Daegeum, violin and cello.
Co-founded by Composers Janet Jieru Chen and Koji Nakano in 2009, The Asian Young Musicians' Connection promotes new music by commissioning compositions from emerging Asian composers along side with worldwide professional musicians for its regular concert in Asia and North America.
Koji was Composer in Residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts from November 3-30, 2009. Ensemble Reconsil Vienna premiered Koji's newest work Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for flute, clarinet, viola and cello as part of the Composers Forum in Mittersill, Austria on September 19, 2009. Koji was chosen as a finalist in music composition of the 2009 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. The MCC has recognized 50 Massachusetts artists for creating work of exceptional quality in a range of disciplines. The MCC's Artist Fellowship Program will award $10,000 unrestricted grants to 33 artists, and distinguish 17 others as finalists with $1,000 grants which were selected from more than 1,200 applicants.
Koji participated in the composers forum in Mittersill, Austria as Composer in Residence from September 10-19, 2009.
 Koji received a 2009 MetLife Creative Connections Grant from Meet The Composer. The grant will support his participation for events at California State University, San Bernardino, where he was Composer in Residence at the Music Department from May 29 to June 2, 2009. In 2008, Koji became the first composer to receive the S&R Washington Award Grand Prize from the S&R Foundation. As the Grand Prize recipient, Koji received a cash prize of $10.000 during the award ceremony in Washington DC on May 17, 2009. In addition, the Foundation will sponsor a portrait concert of his music. Photo by Kurt Hörbst
 |  Biography
Award-winning
Japanese composer, Koji Nakano became the first composer to receive the
S&R Washington Award Grand Prize in 2008. Since
then, Koji has been recognized as one of the major voices among Asian
composers of his generation. His work reflects the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection through the formality of music. As a composer and an educator, his musical activities have included community service and outreach to help bridge Western and non-Western musical cultures. His recent work strives to merge several musical traditions and also make reference to theatre, philosophy, rituals and spirituality in a series of compositions entitled Time Song.
Koji has composed more than fifty works, including solo pieces, chamber works, symphonic movements, operas, and concerti for piano and violin. His compositions have been premiered in USA, Canada, Australia, Holland, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Cambodia. His music has been also performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Smithsonian Museum, Vilnius Congress Hall, and Taiwan National Concert Hall, as well as Tanglewood, Aspen, Bowdoin and Vancouver music festivals. His portrait concert Innovation and Tradition: A Confluence of Cultures in the Music of Koji Nakano was presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Tenri Cultural Institute in NYC, the Annual Music and Performing Arts Festival in Thailand, as well as at the Georgia State University as part of the College Music Society’s Fiftieth-First National Conference. His past projects include an orchestral piece, Ceremonial: Time Song commissioned by conductor Toshiaki Murakami and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, with support from the Japanese Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania. The work was premiered as part of a special concert celebrating The Friendship of Japan and EU Nations at Vilnius Congress Hall, Lithuania in the spring of 2005. In that same year, the Helikon Ensemble performed his first chamber opera Brush and his sextet A Rock in the Way of a Floating Stream at the Vancouver East Cultural Center in association with the Vancouver Opera's Views of Japan. In 2007, his Time Song II: Howling Through Time for female singer, flutist and percussionist was premiered at the Asia Society in NYC in the concert Four Generations of Asian Composers, where Koji was honored to represent Japan as the youngest of four generations.
In 2009, Ensemble Reconsil Vienna gave the world premiere of his Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for flute, bass clarinet, viola and violoncello as part of KOFOMI ("Composers Forum in Mittersill") in Austria. His Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio Visual work in collaboration with filmmaker Tiffany Doesken opened the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia. It was also installed at the Campbelltown Arts Centre during the 2010 ISCM World New Music Days. In 2010, Hyun Soo Kim and the members of the Del Sol String Quartet premiered his Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirits" for daegeum, violin and violoncello at the 2010 Pacific Rim Music Festival. The piece was subsequently performed by the students of Korean National University of the Arts as part of the Nong Festival in Seoul, Korea. In the same year, Borealis String Quartet premiered the string quartet version of Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit” for the opening concert of Asian Young Musicians' Connection at the Performing Arts Center (Soochow University) in Taipei, Taiwan. In the fall of 2010, his multi-media concert Music, Dance and Film: Innovation and Tradition in the Works of Koji Nakano was presented at the Eastern Cultural Center as part of the Annual Music and Performing Arts at Burapha University in Bang Saen, Thailand. In 2011, Del Sol String Quartet gave the US premiere of Time Song III: Reincarnation “The Birth of a Spirit" at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In the same year, his Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for Audio Visual work with filmmaker Tiffany Doesken has been officially selected for the New Filmmakers New York and the Athens International Film and Video Festival in 2011. Koji has been Composer in Residence for the California State University at San Bernardino, Royal University of Fine Arts in Cambodia, Burapha University in Thailand, Japanese Spring Festival at the United Nations International School Theater (New York City), and KOFOMI ("Composers Forum in Mittersill") in Austria. He also served as one of resident composers at the 4th Annual Thailand International Composition Festival in Bangsaen, Thailand in 2008.
During May in 2010, Koji was a Visiting Composer in Residence at the University of Western Sydney in Australia, where his Looking at a Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms, another Audio Visual work in collaboration with Tiffany Doesken, was premiered as part of the Interactive Creative Forum. In addition, Koji has guest lectured at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Davis, the University of Texas at Austin, Chapman University, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the Royal University of Fine Arts in Cambodia, Korean National University of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, National Taiwan University of the Arts, National Chiao Tung University and Taipei Municipal University of Education in Taiwan, as well as Chulalongkorn, Mahidol, Rangsit, Silpakorn and Payap universities in Thailand.
In 2008, Koji became the first composer to receive the S&R Washington Award Grand Prize from the S&R Foundation, which is awarded to the most talented young artist (in the fields of fine arts, music, drama, dance, photography and film), for his/her contributions to U.S.- Japanese relation. The past distinguished grand prize awardees include soprano Maki Mori (2000), pianist Yu Kosuge (2002), violinists Yosuke Kawasaki (2004), Sayaka Shoji (2006), and Tamaki Kawakubo (2007). In addition to being the first recipient of the Toru Takemitsu Award in Composition from the Japan Society of Boston, Koji has also received composition awards, grants and fellowships from Asian Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council (2), Agency for Cultural Affairs (Japan), National Science Council (Taiwan), Tanglewood Music Center, Meet The Composer (3), ASCAP (11), American Music Center (5), University of California at San Diego, California State University at San Bernardino (3), New England Conservatory, New School University, Composers Conference at Wellesley College, Ernest Bloch Music Festival, as well as fellowships for residency from the Bellagio Center in Italy (Rockefeller Foundation), MacDowell Colony, Yaddo (2), Millay Colony for the Arts (3), Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2), Ucross Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (2), and Atlantic Center for the Arts (2). As a guide to his musical compositions, Dr. Stacey Fraser, Associate Professor of Music at the California State University at San Bernardino, has recently written a paper entitled, Confluence of Musical Cultures in Time Song II, in which she examined the incorporation of a variety of Japanese vocal and instrumental techniques into western musical languages. The paper was first presented as a lecture/recital by Dr. Fraser as part of the Music of Japan Today 2007 Symposium at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County and was featured again during the College Music Society’s Fiftieth National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in November 2007. There was also an essay version of the paper, which was published by Cambridge Scholar Publishing in the UK as part of a book centered on the proceedings of the Music of Japan Today Symposium.
Koji received his Bachelor Degree in composition with distinction, and Master's Degree in composition with academic honors and distinction, Pi Kappa Lambda, from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied with Lee Hyla and John Harbison. At NEC, he was a scholarship student and was the winner of composition competitions for the Honors Brass Quintet in 1998 and the Commencement Composition in 1997 and 1999. From 2002-2003, he studied with Dutch composer Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam and at the Royal Conservatory of Hague as the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program Artist. In 2006, Koji received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego, where he studied with Chinary Ung under the Gluck Composition Fellowship.
Koji currently creates various cross-cultural works in collaboration with Western and Asian traditional and contemporary musicians, ensembles, dancers and filmmakers. His upcoming projects include Time Song IV: Diverse Voices commissioned by Taipei Chinese Orchestra for the 2012 Traditional Arts Festival, Time Song V: Mandala commissioned by the Jebediah Foundation New Music Commissions for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and his second opera Spiritual Forest co-commissioned by the Annual Music and Performing Arts Festival at Burapha University in Thailand and the Opera Workshop Seminar at California State University, San Bernardino.
Koji is a member of the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, and currently serves as a Fellow Council member of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In addition to which he was a committee member of the National Performing Arts' Task Force on Diversity in Performing Arts in USA. In 2009, Janet Jieru Chen and Koji co-founded the Asian Young Musicians' Connection ("AYMC"), which commissions compositions from emerging Asian composers along side with worldwide professional musicians for its regular concert in Asia and North America. For the last year he has been a Visiting Professor of Composition at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan and is now a full-time faculty in
composition at Burapha University in Thailand.
 Visual instalation for Portrait Concert at Burapha University in Bangsaen,Thailand,
February 24 2009
 Premiere of Looking at a Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms for flute and Pin Peat Ensemble as part of the Creative Residency funded by the Asian Cultural Council, July 25 2009 Photos by Kurt Hörbst
 After the premiere of Scatterd Clouds/Dramatic Sky for Ensemble Reconsil Vienna,
Composers Forum in Mittersill at Borg in Austria on September 20, 2009 Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky for Audio Visual Work with Contemporary Dancers (2010) Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010
Filmmaker: Tiffany Doesken/ Choreographer: Julaluck Eakwattanapan
 Eternal Chanting "From Somewhere...." for Three Thai Classical Singers and Thai percussions (2010), Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010  Looking at a Dancing Apsara through Rectangular Prisms -Piphat Ensemble Version- (2010) Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010
 Thai Classical Dancers (2010) Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010 Filmmaker: Tiffany Doesken/ Choreographer: Noppon Jamreantong
 Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio Visual Work with Two Dancers (2010) Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010
Filmmaker Tiffany Doesken/ Choreographer: Sanchai Uaesilapa
 After portrait concert, Music, Dance and Film: Innovation and Tradition in the Works of Koji Nakano
Eastern Center of Art and Culture on November 17, 2010  Rehearsing with Pin Peat Ensemble at Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 22, 2009 |
Concerts and Upcoming Events:
2011
Ancient Songs, Soprano Stacey Fraser, Salmon Recital Hall, Chapman University, Orange County, CA, January 14, 2011
Ancient Songs, Soprano Stacey Fraser, Conrad Prebys Music Center's Concert Hall, Sonic Diasporas Festival, University of California at San Diego, 10:30am, January 20, 2011
Installation of Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio Visual work in collaboration with filmmaker Tiffany Doesken), Conrad Prebys Music Center's Conference Room, Sonic Diasporas Festival, University of California at San Diego, January 20-22, 2011
US Premiere, Time Song III: Reincarnation "The Birth of a Spirit" - String Quartet Version, Del Sol String Quartet, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, February 19, 8pm, 2011
The Music of Koji Nakano, sponsored by S&R Foundation, Terrace Theater at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, 2pm, February 20, 2011
Program:
Ancient Songs for solo soprano (2007)
Stacey Fraser, soprano
Frozen Crystal for piano with contemporary dancer (2002/Final rev.2003)
Noriko Suzuki, piano
Paige Starling Sorvillo, contemporary dance
World premiere: "Arigatoo" from the opera Spiritual Forest for soprano and piano (2011)
Stacey Fraser, soprano
Naoko Takao, piano
Time Song III: Reincarnation "The Birth of a Spirit" -String Quartet Version- (2010)
Del Sol String Quartet
Taiwan Premiere, "Arigatoo" from the opera Spiritual Forest -arrangment soprano and piano-, A Confluence of Cultures: Echoes from the Pacific Rim, soprano Stacey Fraser and pianist Edna Chia, Taiwan National Concert Hall, March 1, 2011
Hong Kong Premiere, Ancient Songs for soprano, A Confluence of Cultures: Echoes from the Pacific Rim,
soprano Stacey Fraser, Red Square Gallery, Hong Kong, March 6, 2011
I taught two new courses, "A Confluence of Musical Cultures and Philosophies" for graduate students, and "Music, Culture and Spirituality" for undergraduate students at the Taipei National University of the Arts.
Guest Composer, Lecture on my music Innovation and Tradition: A Confluence of Musical Cultures, Institute of Music, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 21, 2011
Guest Composer, Lecture on my music Innovation and Tradition: A Confluence of Musical Cultures, Music Department, University of California at Davis, California, 4:30-6pm, May 25 2011
West Coast Premiere, "Arigatoo" from the opera Spiritual Forest -arrangment soprano and piano-, the second concert of Asian Young Musicians' Connection in conjunction with the Biannual Concert of "A Confluence of Musical Cultures: Music of the Pacific Rim," California State University at San Bernardino, California, June 3, 2011
Curriculum Adviser, MFA and Ph.D. Programs in Music and Performing Arts, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Burapha University, Bang Saen, Thailand, July 5-17, 2011
Composer in Residence, Thailand International Composition Festival, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 18-22, 2011
Panel Discussion "Creative Collaborations," Thailand International Composition Festival, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 10:45-12pm, July 19, 2011
Panel Discussion "Developing your own colors," Thailand International Composition Festival, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 10:45-12pm, July 21, 2011
World Premiere, Ancient Chanting for Thai Classical musicians, Thailand International Composition Festival, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2:30pm, July 22, 2011
Visiting Professor, Traditional Music Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, September 14-October 26, 2011
I co-teach a new course " Composition for Traditional Music: Sound and Images" with Prof. Ling-Huei Tsai in the Department of Traditional Music at the Taipei National University of the Arts.
Premiere of New Dance Choreography, Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio-Visual Work with Thai Classical Dancers, Kuandu Film Festival, 7pm, October 21, 2011
Assistant Producer, Music and Performing Arts Festival, Burapha University, Bang Saen, Thailand, October 26-November 7, 2011
World Premiere, Ancient Chanting with Choreographed Dancers, and Thai Premiere of Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spirits for Audio-Visual Work with Thai Classical Dancers, Annual Music and Performing Arts Festival, Eastern Cultural Center, Burapha University, Bang Saen, Thailand, November 4, 2011
Curriculum Adviser, MFA and Ph.D. Programs in Music and Performing Arts, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Burapha University, Bang Saen, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011
Guest Professor, Traditional Music Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan November 13-20, 2011
Guest Composer, Tapei Municipal University of Education, New Taipei, Taiwan, November 15, 2011
Guest Composer, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 16, 2011
Guest Composer, National Taiwan University of the Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan, November 17, 2011
2012
Full-Time Faculty in Composition and Administrative Committee Member, MFA and PhD Programs in Music and Performing Arts, Burapha University, Thailand, 2012-
CD Project, Ancient Songs and Arigatoo from the Opera Spiritual Forest, soprano Stacey Fraser and pianist Jocelyn Chang, Chapman University, CA, January 15, 2012
Hibari Project (Online Charity Project), After the Gentle Wind...., solo flutist Manabe Reiko, Ensemble mmm...,
Hibari Project, February 21-27,
2011
Guest Composer, Composition Master Class, Institute of Music, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 12:30-3pm March 22, 2011
Guest Professor, Traditional Music Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, April 25-May 11, 2012
Guest Composer, Composition Master Class, Institute of Music, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 10-12pm May 8, 2011
Guest Composer, Music Colloquium, Lecture entitled Making Music from Asia to the World: Reconstruction of Traditional Culture and Philosophy in Contemporary Music, Institute of Music, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1:30-3:20pm, May 8, 2012
Guest Panelist, Forum on Art Education, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education, Taipei National University of the Arts, 1-3pm, May 10, 2012
World Premiere, Time Song IV: Diverse Voices for Chinese musical instruments, commissioned by the Taipei Chinese Orchestra for the Annual Traditional Arts Festival, Zhong Shan Hall,
Taipei, Taiwan, May 25, 2012
Guest Professor, Traditional Music Department, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, May 28-June 20, 2012
After the Gentle Wind...., solo
flutist Christopher Matthews,opening concert, Chelsea Music Festival,
June 15, 2012, NYCFeatured Composer, Chelsea Music Festival, NYC, June 15-23, 2012
Guest Composer, KOFOMI #17, Mittersill, Austria, September, 2012
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作曲家 中野浩二
1974年東京生まれ、幼少の頃から作曲を学び、国立音楽大学付属高校に入学、同作曲科を首席で卒業後, 渡米。ボストンのニューイングランド音楽院でリーハイラとジョン ハービソンから作曲を学び、同作曲科大学、大学院を首席で卒業する。2002年から2003年には文化庁派遣芸術家在外研修員として一年間、オランダのロイヤル コンサバトリー(デンハーグ)でルイス アンリッセン師に作曲を師事。また、カリフォルニア大学サンディ エーゴ校ではチナリー ウング師と学び、2006年に同大学作曲科大学院博士号を取得。
1998年に、ボストン日本協会から第一回武満徹作曲賞を受賞。これまでにアメリカやアジア、ヨーロッパなどで作品が演奏されており、ニューヨークのカーネギーホールやタングルウッド音楽祭などに招かれ新曲が初演される。2007年からは、マクドエル コロニーやヤドなど８つのアーティスト コロニーから招待を受け、作曲活動を続ける。その後、様々なアーティスト コロニーの選考委員などを務め2008年にはヴァージニア芸術センターのフェロー会会員に選出される。同年、日米の相互理解に貢献する美術、音楽、ドラマ制作、ダンス、写真、映画の各分野における才能ある若手アーティストの奨励を目的として贈られるS&R財団のS&Rワシントン賞 に選出され、同賞グランプリをソプラノ歌手 森麻紀(2001), ピアニスト 小菅優(2003), ヴァイオリニスト 川崎洋介(2005), 庄司紗矢香 (2006), 川久保賜紀(2007)に続き作曲家として初めて受賞。2011年には、作曲個展コンサートが副賞としてアメリカのケネディーセンターで開かれた。
その他、ロックフェラー財団、タングルウッド 音楽祭、Asian Cultural Council、ミート ザ コンポーザー、Massachussets Cultural Council、アスキャップ、アメリカン ミュージック センター, 世界の様々な大学や音楽祭などからフェローシップを受け、国際的な作曲活動を続けている。2010年には、Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spiritsがオーストリアで開かれた国際現代音楽協会(ISCM)に入選。
近年では、指揮者村上寿昭とリトアニア州立オーケストラへの新曲や、トロントのタペストリー ニュー オペラ ワークスから一幕のオペラの委託など、ボストンを拠点として国境を越えた作曲活動をしている。2008年には、ニューヨークの国連国際学校で開かれた第14回春祭りのコンポーザー イン レシデンスに任命され開会式と閉会式で演奏される新作を委託され初演される。同年、第4回タイ国際作曲祭に招かれレシデンス イン コンポーザーとしてレクチャーや作品が演奏される。2009年にはコンポーザー イン レシデンスとしてカリフォルニア州立大学サン バーナーディーノ校に招かれ、レクチャーや新曲を含む3つの作品が演奏された。同年９月、オーストリアのComposers Forum in Mittersill (KOFOMI)のレシデンス インコンポーザーに任命され、レクチャーや同音楽祭に委託された新曲Scattered Coulds/Dramatic SkyがEnsemble Reconsil Viennaにより初演される。2010年には、オーストリアのein_klang recordsが同曲をCDとしてリリース。、作曲家 Janet Jieru Chen と共に アジアン ヤング ミュージシャンズ コネクションを設立、新鋭作曲家の新曲を世界で活躍しているプロの演奏家に推進し、毎年アジアや北アメリカで行われるコンサートやレクチャーを企画している。
現在は、アジア伝統音楽や宮廷音楽の研究や後進の教育にも力を入れており、招待作曲家としてカリフォルニア大学バークリー校や韓国国立芸術大学など数々の大学で積極的にレクチャーやコンサートを行っている。タイのブラパ大学やカンボジアの王立芸術大学では各国の伝統楽器と西洋楽器を使った新作を発表。これまで台湾の国立台北芸術大学で客員教授として作曲の後進の指導にもあたっており, タイのブラパ大学では作曲専任講師として新設される大学院プログラムで教える予定。
