Education
In 2000 he entered the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, studying composition and clarinet, graduating in 2004. Between 2005 and 2008 he did his graduate studies in music composition at Yale University. Since 2008 he pursues his doctorate studies at Columbia University, where his principal teachers have been Fabien Lévy, Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl.
Onishi is the recipient of 2011 Gaudeamus Prize in Music Composition, and the 2012 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship.
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