Takuma Itoh (b. 1984) spent his early childhood in Japan before moving to Northern California where he grew up. Currently a student at Cornell University, he has attended the University of Michigan (M.M.) and Rice University (B.M.), and has studied with composers Steven Stucky, Roberto Sierra, Kevin Ernste, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Shih-Hui Chen, Anthony Brandt, Pierre Jalbert, and Karim Al-Zand. The 2010 season includes a performance of his Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra by the St. Lawrence Quartet and the Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra, a performance of a new work by the violinist Joseph Lin, and a CD release of Echolocation by the H2 saxophone quartet. His music has also been performed by ensembles such as the Albany Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony with the Shanghai Quartet at Carnegie Hall, the Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Chamber Orchestra, the Pioneer Valley Symphony, the Woodlands Symphony, H2 Saxophone Quartet, Chimeng Quartet, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. He is the recipient of the American Composers Orchestra 2008 Underwood New Music Readings, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (including the 2010 Leo Kaplan Award), Haddonfield Young Composer Competition, New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission, Renée B Fisher Composer Commission, Pioneer Valley Symphony Young Composers Competition, and Russell Horn Voices of Change Young Composer Award. He has also been a fellow at the Pacific Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival and an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and has had the opportunity to work with Detlev Glanert, Christopher Rouse, Marc André-Dalbavie, Sydney Hodkinson, and Stephen Jaffe. His music has been published by Theodore Presser. He enjoys playing jazz piano and has studied with Geri Allen. For more information, please visit www.takumaitoh.com.