The Hagner/Nishiyama Big Band is a 17-piece jazz large ensemble led by Skyler Hagner and Yu Nishiyama. The big band plays a wide variety of styles and features original compositions by Skyler, a member of the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop, and Yu, who is a winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer’s Award in 2019. The Hagner/Nishiyama Big Band is part of the contemporary jazz large ensemble scene in New York, with their music pulling from a wide variety of influences including Japanese culture, classical music, and free improvisation, among others.

Saxophones: Gideon Forbes, Phil Engsberg, Tim Murphy, Diego Ferreira, Skyler Hagner
Trumpets: Fareed Simpson Hankins (lead), Rafael castillo-halvorssen, Jonny Gittings, Andrew Wagner
Trombones: Stephen Justice, Peter Lin, Caleb Rumley, Tim Newman (bass)
Guitar: Dave D'Arville
Piano: Caelan Cardello
Bass: Daseul Kim
Drums: Colleen Clark

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