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Recent/Upcoming Performances
06/14/2008 One week at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Chamber Music Institute. Haywire is performed by the St. Olaf Quartet.
05/07/2008 Sunrise From a Distant Past is read by the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Ann Manson.
Read: Symphony Magazine Blog
04/09/2008 Takuma will be attending Cornell University next year.
03/28/2008 Honorable Mention for the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award
03/18/2008 Performance of Sunrise From a Distant Past by University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra.
03/10/2008 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.
03/05/2008 Winner of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Young Composers Competition. Performance on May 17, 2008 at Greenfield High School, Greenfield, MA
08/29/2007 Regional V-East winner of the SCI/ASCAP Student Competition.
04/12/2007 Winner of the 2007 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award.
03/24/2007 Awarded for the February 2007 Composer Assistance Program.
03/14/2007 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
03/10/2007 Concerto for Orchestra premiered by the Haddonfield Symphony (now Symphony in C), (Rossen Milanov, cond.).
Reviews: Philadelphia Inquirer - Courier Post
02/28/2007 Concerto for Orchestra selected as finalist in the Columbia Orchestra American Composer Compeition
02/17/2007 Imprints is performed at the Midwest Composer's Symposium at the University of Indiana by Lembit Beecher and Ming-Hsiu Yen.
01/03/2007 Concerto for Orchestra named the winner of the 2006-7 Haddonfield Young Composer's Competition
5/21/2006 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