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JANUARY 13, 2020 Meet Akira Nakano of Los Angeles Inception Orchestra Today we’d like to introduce you to Akira Nakano. Akira, can you...
Inception
The Los Angeles Inception Orchestra provides young composers in underserved communities access to professional mentorships and musicians...
What's Next?
If you watched THE WEST WING, you know that's President Josian Bartlett's catchphrase. He's done, he's processed and he's ready to move...
Southeast Symphony - American Legacy Concert Eve
I discovered something over the last two nights of rehearsals with the Southeast Symphony... something I'd lost touch with in the course...
The Beach Club
In February of this year, I performed “Rhapsody in Blue” with an orchestra… kinda. It was with the whatever-orchestra-is-featured on...
The "Dream" Concert
The second half started without me. I was in the green room, tearing out pages from the “Phantom of the Opera” book because I didn’t...
What Dreams Are Made Of...
I thrive best under last minute pressure. There is no one who has worked with me before who can tell you differently. There are...
And then it turns 2013...What's Next?
Solo shows are not really solo shows. Anyone who has done one knows that. They are a tremendous collaboration of people who believe...
The Recital
The last time I performed in Zipper Hall the audience was dark. So pitch black, in fact, that a friend of mine who was sitting in the...
Countdown to the First Recital
My mom made me take piano lessons. I crept into a strange studio at the Colburn School; started to play “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”...
