A composer of over 90 works for traditional Japanese instruments, Marty Regan is a Professor at Texas A&M University.
Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject, his translation of Minoru Miki’s Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His music has been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today and NHK’s Hōgaku no hito toki/’A Moment for Traditional Japanese Music.’ His chamber opera, titled The Memory Stone, was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera as part of the HGOco’s Songs of Houston: East + West initiative and was premiered in 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center.
In 2015 he was the recipient of a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Grant as well as a Clare Hall Visiting Research Fellowship from Cambridge University, UK. In 2022-23 he was the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct field research in Japan while teaching at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music.
Marty Regan was commissioned by the ESS to create a new shakuhachi composition for Finland 2024.
His Echoes of the Taiga for shakuhachi trio will be rehearsed and premiered at the ESS Summer School Concert at the Sibelius Museum in Turku.
Read more about Marty’s commission.