Taro Wayama

Taro Wayama is a Japanese born composer/classical guitarist. He is a winner of numerous competitions such as 1st place in the 2003 Aron Green/American String Teachers Association Guitar Competition and 2nd place in the Thailand International Guitar Competition. As a composer he received “Best Original Score” at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for an independent film, “Anne Jennings”. Taro is an active composer, soloist and a chamber musician. He has performed in Japan, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Belgium, China and the US. He frequently collaborates with violin, clarinet, flute, voice, and dancers performing his own compositions as well as music from Renaissance through 20th/21st Century and Folk/World music. He also collaborates with visual and multimedia artists to create installations which embody both visual and audio experience. Recently he was commissioned to compose a piece for Yutaka Sone’s new installation, Obsidian in Nanjing, China. Taro holds Masters and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Pepe Romero, William Kannengiser, James Smith, Brian Head and Scott Tennant.