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Ryohei
Nakagawa was born in Kyoto,Japan in 1935.He received his bachelor's degree
from Tokyo University of Arts and Master's from Yale University. Formerly
principal bassoonist of L.Stokowsky's American Symphony, the NewYork City
Opera Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Symphony and the San Francisco
Symphony. His arrangements for various wind groups are published by Carl
Fisher, T.Presser, Ongaku-no-Tomosha and Sugihara Shoten. His wide activities
in chamber music include the Marlboro Music Festival and numerous groups
in New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo. He was a Faculty-Artist of
the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, U.S.A. from 1978 for 20 consecutive
summers and was professor of Music at the Aichi University of Arts in
Nagoya from 1989 to 2001. He is currently Music Director of the Tokyo
BACH-BAND. In 1999, Piano & BACH-BAND Quartet series for new chamber
music group (Tp, A-Sax, Euph, Tuba & Piano=PBBQ) and "Songs from
Japan "Molto Cantabile ma senza voce"for Piano and Woodwind
Quintet(PWQ)were published from Sugihara Shoten Co.,Inc.(the publisher
of Pipers Magazine) in Tokyo.Nakagawa continues to write new arrangements
for wind instruments,always involved in the quest to create more chamber
music opportunities for wind instruments. |