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Bio A recent recipient of the University of Chicago Fellowship, where he currently works with Shulamit Ran and Howard Sandroff, Takuma Tanikawa's music has been performed by Second Instrumental Unit, pianists Aleksandra Kocheva and Derek Wieland, and International Contemporary Ensemble. In 2006-2007 He served as president of QC New Music Group, a student-run organization in charge of programming new works from Bruce Saylor's composers workshop at CUNY Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music in Flushing, New York, where he received the George Perle Prize (2007) and the Luigi Dallapiccola Award in Composition (2006). In 2004, he began studying privately with John Link and in 2003 attended a master class with Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt at the Juilliard School of Music. In 2001, he was invited to Tokyo to perform, arrange and co-produce a track on the Toshiba-EMI release Joyride, for which he won numerous favorable reviews in the Japanese press. In 1999 he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Performance from CUNY Hunter College, where he studied Jazz theory and Bebop with Anthony D.J. Branker and electric guitar with Glen Alexander through the New School for Social Research and the Hunter College Alumni Association Scholarship. At ACSM, he studied composition and theory with Jeff Nichols, William Rothstein and David Gagné, and computer music with Hubert S. Howe Jr.