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Justin Kawashima
Record Producer
1970 –
Who is Justin Kawashima?
Justin Kawashima, is a film sound editor, music producer, and arranger.
Kawashima was born in Japan, but his family moved to the United States that same year. He grew up in Houston, Texas graduating from Memorial High School. He attended New York University and majored in Music History. Kawashima was accepted into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop making him the youngest person to join the group until Robert Lopez took that honor.
He has been a sound designer for films including Hal Hartley's feature, The Girl From Monday, starring Bill Sage and Sabrina Lloyd; and Opera No 1, featuring Parker Posey and James Urbaniak. He designed sound for Japanese film legend Takeshi Kitano's Production company, Office Kitano, on the feature Big River, and the 1818 short film, Running Time, starring Yul Vazquez, and Sam Rockwell.
In the dance world, he has collaborated as composer and sound designer on several new works with Bessie-Award-winning choreographer David Neumann including Pearl River and the Central Park SummerStage concert performance featuring beat-poet John Giorno. Commissioned for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, Deep Six extended the collaboration to include veteran New York musicians Gary Seligson on drums and Dave Philips on Bass.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1970
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
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on July 23, 2013
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