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Welcome

Thanks so much for visiting my home on the web. Feel free to scroll down and see all of my recent artistic activities as well as explore the various pages containing my work and collaborations.

Click the button below to explore the latest events for this concert season.

Colorful Abstract Painting

Latest Projects | Commissions

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Click here to learn more about the project and the collaboration with my phenomenal artistic partner FreeQuency 

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BLOOD IN THE SOIL

New Chamber Ballet by 

Jeremy McQueen's Black Iris Project

Music by Brian Raphael Nabors

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Pictured: Daphne M. Lee, photo by Argenis Apolinario for The Black Iris Project

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Feeling Curious?

Learn more about how The Well is inspiring curiosity through the Wonder commission.

Stacy Sims (executive director/founder, The Well, Alan Lightman (physicist) and Brian Raphael Nabors (composer/The Well trustee) on panel | Photo by Deogracias Lerma 

Earth from Space

Featured Work

Pulse for Orchestra (2019) 

recently featured on The Listening Project with Minnesota Orchestra

Image by Quentin Rey

Upon Daybreak

Upon Daybreak for Orchestra (2022) 

Co-Commissioned performance by ROCO Chamber Orchestra. A part of New Music USA's Amplifying Voices Program. Co-Commission partners include Berkeley, Detroit, Seattle Symphony orchestras & the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

 

Click here to also view a recent performance by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conducting. 

Colorful Wall

Get more info on upcoming 2024-2025  performances on the Events page 

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Nabors receives 2024 Young Alumni Award

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Icare ifyou
Listen

Check out my interview on

I Care If You Listen (.com)

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New Music

Rhapsody for Trombone & Piano

featured on Kenneth Thompkins'

Compelling Portraits

Principal trombonist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Thompkins, has released an exciting new album of trombone featured chamber works by Black composers entitled Compelling Portraits, from Navona Records. The albums also features works by composers Kevin Day, Maurice Draughn, Shawn Okpebholo, James Lee III.

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Dry Tree Trunk

Swift for

Bassoon & Piano

Commissioned by bassoonist

Joseph Swift, check out this new work for bassoon and piano featured on his new album Room to Breathe. This eclectic album also features works by Chris Evan Hass, Gala Flagello, Karalyn Schubring, and Brad Balliett.

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Pollack

...and Beyond for

Cello & Electronics

Commissioned by cellist

Angelique Montes, check out this new work for solo cello and electronics featured on her new album Refraction. This awesome album also features works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson,

Tania León, Nathalie Joachim, and Sophia Bass.

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Foggy Lake

Reflections for

Solo Guitar

Commissioned by Ex-Aequo artists, check out this new work for solo guitar in addition to many other works a part of Ex-Aequo's "Changing the Canon" project, supporting new solo guitar music by living black composers.

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