Marty Regan graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 with a B.M. in Composition and a B.A. in English and East Asian Studies. From 2000-2002 he studied composition and took applied lessons on traditional Japanese instruments as a Japanese government-sponsored research student at Tokyo College of Music. In 2002, his composition Shinonome no Uta (Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds) was premiered at the 5th Annual Composition Competition for Traditional Japanese Instruments at the National Theatre of Japan. In 2005 he was awarded the Tai Hei Shakuhachi Scholarship in recognition of his efforts in advocating the Japanese performing arts abroad. He completed his Ph.D. in Music with an emphasis in Composition at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2006. His English translation of Minoru Miki’s Composing for Japanese Instruments was published in 2008 by the University of Rochester Press. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Music at Texas A&M University.
For more information, visit www.martyregan.com
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