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Reena Esmail

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Reena Esmail


As a competitive pianist, Reena Esmail (b. 1983) won the Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Competition and appeared in recitals at the Hollywood Bowl Museum and The Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles. Since 2001, she has focused on composition and has received ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composers Awards (2002), The Norris Foundation Scholarship (2001) and the Peter D. Faith Prize in Composition (2002). Her works have been performed by artists such as The Debussy Trio and Peter Sheridan of the Los Angeles Flute Quartet. She studies at the Juilliard School, where her principal teachers are Samuel Adler and Christopher Rouse. Reena serves as Outreach Coordinator for the International Alliance for Women in Music.

Reena Esmail
Reena Esmail
Reena Esmail with Damian
Reena Esmail with Damian


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