DEREK NAKAMOTO is a record producer, arranger, and film composer whose four-decade career spans R&B, jazz, and orchestral film scoring. He co-wrote Hiroshima's "Thousand Cranes," arranged 23 albums for Keiko Matsui, and produced Waldemar Bastos' Classics of My Soul with the London Symphony Orchestra. A longtime music director for Nobuko Miyamoto, he recently released his debut solo album, Is Today the Day?, at www.dereknakamoto.com.
