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Peoria Symphony appoints David Nakazono as 2nd Trumpet!

Following the dual Principal and 2nd Trumpet Auditions in October 2019, David will be joining the Peoria Symphony as its 2nd Trumpet beginning in 2020!

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David Nakazono Joins the Wisconsin Philharmonic as 3rd Trumpet!

Following auditions on September 29, 2019, David Nakazono was chosen to be the new 3rd Trumpet with the Wisconsin Philharmonic!

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Civic Orchestra of Chicago

After a long awaited announcement, on May 10, 2019, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago released the results of its auditions. David Nakazono was selected to be a Regular Member with the Civic Orchestra for the 2019-2020 season! As a Civic Member, he will rehearse and perform at the historic Symphony Center, develop deep connections with CSO musicians through sectional rehearsals, private lessons, side-by-side rehearsals, mock auditions, and career development conversations. Civic members also attend select CSO rehearsals and receive complimentary tickets to CSO concerts throughout the season.

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Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University Graduation and Next Steps!

On May 10, 2019 David Nakazono received his Master's of Music in Orchestral Studies from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He looks forward to continuing his studies with Neal Berntsen of the Pittsburgh Symphony and Mark Ridenour of the Chicago Symphony while pursuing a Performance Diploma in Orchestral Studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University!

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Chicago Tribune Reviews L'Histoire du Soldat​ at Project 88 Berwyn

Igor Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" ends badly for the titular trooper. Not so much for Berwyn's Project 88 Concert Series, which launched its second season with a sonically and visually engrossing multi-media production of...

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National Repertory Orchestra Fellow!

After an audition tour around the country, the National Repertory Orchestra selected David Nakazono to be one of their trumpet fellows for the 2019 season. Learn more about the NRO and what David's summer will include at NROMusic.com

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GoFundMe Launches for Summer at Brevard

To help offset the cost of attending the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and Festival, David has set up a GoFundMe Campaign. If you'd like to support him and his musical career, please check it out!

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Admittance to Brevard Music Center Institute and Festival

David Nakazono has been admitted to the College Orchestral Studies Program at the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute and Festival for 2018! The Brevard Music Center is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina and is one of the country’s premier summer training programs and festivals. While at Brevard, David will rehearse daily and perform extensively in various ensembles, study privately with world-class faculty, undertake audition training, participate in masterclasses, and take part in several more educational and experiential musical opportunities! He's particularly excited to perform alongside his teachers and the faculty at Brevard in the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Learn more about Brevard here.

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Chicago College of Performing Arts

David Nakazono is currently pursuing a Masters in Orchestral Studies and Trumpet Performance at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University! He studies with both Mark Ridenour and Neal Berntsen.

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6th Annual Camp McNab 2017

David Nakazono performed George Enescu's Légende on Friday at the 6th Annual Camp McNab at Azusa Pacific University. Camp McNab is led by Malcolm McNab and focuses on the teachings and methods of the great trumpet teacher James Stamp. 

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Music from the Heart

For David Nakazono, the ultimate aim of music is communication — “communicating a message, an idea, a story, through sound.” And he is mastering that art as an undergraduate performance major in the UCSB Department of Music. With acclaimed musicians such as Jill Felber and Grant Hungerford on the faculty, and emphases ranging from composition to ethnomusicology, the department offers students world-class instruction and mentorship that translates to the stage, the orchestra pit and the academy.

Music From The Heart: UCSB Department of Music from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.

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Finding Harmony Sitting in with UCSB's Pops Orchestra

David Nakazono is the Founder of the Pops Orchestra at UCSB, a student run organization at the University of California-Santa Barbara that strives to provide a fun and exciting outlet for symphonic and orchestral music for majors, non-majors, and community members alike. The organization was featured in the Santa Barbara Independent on May 21, 2017.

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UCSB Amplified: David Nakazono "Playera"

This time on Amplified, UCSB senior David Nakazono takes us back to the intensely emotional Romantic Era with the quintessentially Spanish "Playera," by violinist Pablo de Sarasate. David, a physics major, works in UCSB Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Jon Schuller's lab. He is accompanied on acoustic guitar by SBCC student Jake Richardson.

Uan Rasey Memorial Scholarship for Trumpet

David Nakazono is the winner of the 2016/17 Uan Rasey Memorial Scholarhip for Trumpet.
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Uan Rasey, who died in September of 2011 at age 90, left an important legacy as a master trumpeter.  Among an industrious and illustrious musical career, Mr. Rasey will be long remembered for his moody trumpet in Jerry Goldsmith’s score for “Chinatown,” Leonard Bernstein’s score for “Westside Story,” and on the soundtracks for “An American in Paris,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Spartacus,” and “Ben-Hur,” well as countless other MGM musicals after he joined the studio in 1949.

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