At age 9, Graham Cohen became the youngest winner of the prestigious Morton Gould ASCAP Young Composer Competition, an honor he has since received three more times. With over a thousand compositions under his belt, Graham is now 15 years old,  attending the Juilliard Pre-College Division in New York City, but much of his compositional proving ground was right here in the Valley of the Sun—with his father, conductor Warren Cohen and the Musica Nova Orchestra.- Produced by Janine Miller and Jane Hilton

Cohen’s new work, Unexpected Affinities,premieres Sunday, January 11, 4pm, performed by the Paradise Winds and the Musica Nova Orchestra at the Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix. For more details, visit http://musicanovaaz.com/