Sana Nagano



Sana Nagano is a Japanese-born jazz violinist, composer and arranger based in Brooklyn, New York. She started learning violin at the age of three and continued her education first in Japan, and then in the United States. She earned performance and composition degrees from the Berklee College of Music and the Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College, and has been performing with such musicians as Karl Berger, Billy Martin, Peter Apfelbaum and Ken Filiano.

Her avant-garde noise album Smashing Humans in which Nagano debuted as a bandleader contains elements of experimentation and received favorable reviews.