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Brian Raphael Nabors [Nay-berz] (b. April 10, 1991, Birmingham, AL) is a composer of emotionally enriching music that tells exciting narratives with its vibrant themes and colorful harmonic language.

Nabors' music has been performed by the Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Worth, and Munich Symphonies, ROCO Chamber Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and ChinekeOrchestra, among others. His music has been performed at many venues and events internationally, including the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Helsinki Festival, and the Lucerne Festival. In the US, the Texas Music Educators Association Conference (TMEA), Midwest Composers Symposium, Texas Flute Society Festival, International Horn Symposium, International Double Reed Society Conference (IDRS), International Clarinet Association Clarinet Fest,National Orchestral Institute (NOI), Aspen Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has also been performed by artists such as the Atlanta Chamber Players, Apollo Chamber Players, Dallas's Voices of Change, Boston Musica Viva and Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings.

With an eclectic musical palate and crafty compositional technique to match, Nabors’ music draws from combinations of Jazz Funk, R&B, and Gospel with the modern flair of contemporary music. This interesting blend of sound worlds is one that continues to craft his unique musical voice.

Performances for 2024 through 2025 include Carnegie Hall, Aspen Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Clarinet Fest 2024, Seattle Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Chineke! Orchestra at Elbphilharmonie, Oakland Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Alabama Symphony, The Black Iris Project, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Musiqa Houston and The Well. 

He was named the 2018-19 Composer-in-Residence with Castle of Our Skins; 2019 composer fellow in the American Composer’s Orchestra Earshot program with the Detroit Symphony; 2019 composer fellow with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s Composer Lab; 2019 cycle five grand prize winner of the Rapido! National Composition Contest. Nabors is also a 2020 Fulbright scholarship recipient to Sydney, Australia, studying with composer Carl Vine at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and a 2021 Tanglewood Composition Fellow.Nabors earned both a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degree in Composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where he studied with Douglas Knehans, Ellen Ruth Harrison and Miguel A. Roig-Francolí. Prior to graduate studies, he obtained a Bachelor of Music Theory & Composition degree from the School of the Arts at Samford University, where he studied composition with Sarana Chou and piano with Kathryn Fouse.He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at the Louisiana State University School of Music.