Andy Akiho is an award winning composer and performer with a broad range of interests that stretch from steel pan to western classical music.  Akiho was recently featured as a composer on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and as a percussionist at Carnegie Hall in New York City.  His compositions have been recognized by numerous organizations including ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and Bang On a Can.  Recent commissions include those for string quartet from ETHEL, a duet for violin and viola from Katherine Fong and Dov Scheindlin of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and a new chamber work entitled No one To kNOW one for The Playground to be premiered at The 2010 Mile High Voltage Festival.  Akiho recently studied composition at MSM with Julia Wolfe, and percussion with Jeffrey Milarsky and John Ferrari.  He currently studies composition at Yale University School of Music with Christopher Theofanidis and Ezra Laderman.

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Akiho: Work Samples

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21 – Perc, Cello, Electronics (below)

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Vick(i/y) – solo piano (below)

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to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem (below)

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