Sana Nagano

Sana Nagano is a violinist and composer from Tokyo, living in New York since 2010. She took up the violin as a child in Japan, came to the United States as an exchange student and earned performance and composition degrees at Berklee College of Music and at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Her work runs through free improvisation, avant-jazz, bluegrass and rock, and she leads several small groups of her own. Her self-released debut Inside the Rainbow (2014) was a trio with Karl Berger on vibraphone and John Ehlis on guitar.