Biography-Naoyuki Honzawa

Naoyuki Honzawa
Composer/Arranger

was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan.

Graduated Metal Engineering major of Tohoku University in April, 1993.

May, 1995, he started studying with Greg Hopkins and Ken Puling (jazz composition), and with Dave Samuels (Vibraphone) and Nancy Zeltsman (Marimba) at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts.

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in May, 1997 with a diploma in Jazz Composition, and he got the Charles Mingus Award from Berklee Writing Division.

Now he mainly writes Jazz-, or Latin-oriented-music for Brass Band, Big Band, Small Orchestra, etc.

Visit His Studio