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.
Discography YearTitleArtistLabel2014Inside the RainbowSana NaganoSana Nagano2021Smashing HumansSana Nagano577 Records2022Anime MundiSana Nagano577 Records2023Peach and TomatoSana Nagano, Leonor Falcón577 Records
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