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April 2010 WINNER of the Leo Kaplan Award of the 2010 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. H2 Quartet will perform Echolocation at the annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at The Times Center in New York on May 27, 2010.

Mar. 2010 NEW CD with Echolocation has been released by h2 Quartet on "Times and Spaces." (2010, Blue Griffin Recordings Inc.)

Feb. 12, 2010 Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra performed by the St. Lawrence Quartet and the Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra.

July 21, 2009 Event Horizon will be performed at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.

July, 2009 Echolocation will be performed at the World Saxophon Congress XV in Bangkok, Thailand in July, 2009 by the h2 Quartet.

Recording of the January 2009 performance of Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra by the Albany Symphony and the Chimeng Quartet now available on instantencore.com

Takuma will be attending the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan from July 9 to July 23.

Commissioned by the Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition to write a short piano piece for 2011.

Feb. 22, 2009 Sarcasms will be performed by Andrew Liebermann and Seo Hee Kang as part of the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players concert.

Jan. 17, 2009 Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra played by the Albany Symphony (David Alan Miller, cond.), with the Chimeng Quartet from Bard College as the soloists.

Nov. 02, 2008 Automata will be premiered by Chi-Chen Wu as part of the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players concert.

June 14, 2008 One week at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Chamber Music Institute. Haywire is performed by the St. Olaf Quartet.

May 17, 2008 Pioneer Valley performs Concerto for Orchestra.
Read: Classical Voices of New England

May 07, 2008 Sunrise From a Distant Past is read by the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Ann Manson.
Read: Symphony Magazine Blog

March 28, 2008 Honorable Mention for the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award

March 18, 2008 Performance of Sunrise From a Distant Past by University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra.

March 10, 2008 One of six composers selected to take part in the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Reading. Readings held in May 6, 7, 2008 at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts @ NYU. Open to public.

March 05, 2008 Winner of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Young Composers Competition. Performance on May 17, 2008 at Greenfield High School, Greenfield, MA

August 29, 2007 Regional V-East winner of the SCI/ASCAP Student Competition.

April 12, 2007 Winner of the 2007 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award.

March 24, 2007 Awarded for the February 2007 Composer Assistance Program.

March 14, 2007 Accepted as an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with Master Artist Stephen Jaffe. Residency from from May 14 - June 3, 2007

March 10, 2007 Concerto for Orchestra premiered by the Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), (Rossen Milanov, cond.).

Feb. 28, 2007 Concerto for Orchestra selected as finalist in the Columbia Orchestra American Composer Compeition

Feb. 17, 2007 Imprints is performed at the Midwest Composer's Symposium at the University of Indiana by Lembit Beecher and Ming-Hsiu Yen.

Jan. 03, 2007 Concerto for Orchestra named the winner of the 2006-7 Haddonfield Young Composer's Competition

May 21, 2006 Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra premiered by the New York Youth Symphony with the Shanghai Quartet (Paul Haas, cond.) at Carnegie Hall.
Review: New York Times