No jazz pianist alive is possessed of more explosive virtuosity or thrilling unpredictability than Hiromi - a GRAMMY-winning artist the All Music Guide calls "one of the most remarkable pianists of the past half century." This season, she brings the San Francisco premiere of her groove heavy new Sonicwonder quartet of young giants featuring the masterful trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, French-born bass phenom Hadrien Feraud, and monster drummer Gene Coye, celebrating the release of her 2023 Telarc album Sonicwonderland.
Debuting with the Czech Philharmonic at 14, the Hamamatsu, Japan native was mentored by Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal early in her development, signing her first record deal with Telarc before graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Blending a foundation in classical repertoire with a deep feeling for the jazz tradition, she's collaborated with Corea and Stanley Clarke, led over a dozen albums in settings including solo piano, her original trio, the Sonicbloom quartet featuring guitarist David Fiuczynski, her Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips, and recently in duo with Colombian harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda.
During this week, the improvisational fireworks of Sonicwonder will take Hiromi's boundless imagination and joyful expressiveness into new territories of exploration.
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Ever since the 2003 release of her debut, Another Mind, Hiromi has electrified audiences with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1979, Hiromi's first piano teacher, Noriko Hikida, exposed Hiromi to jazz and introduced her to the great pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. She enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music and started writing music. Hiromi moved to the United States in 1999 and studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Among her mentors was jazz bassist/arranger Richard Evans, who took Hiromi's demo to his friend, the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal. Evans co-produced Another Mind with Jamal. Another Mind was a critical success in North America and Japan, where the album shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's Jazz Album of the Year Award. Hiromi's astonishing debut was but a forecast of the shape of jazz to come. In 2009, she recorded with pianist Chick Corea on Duet, a live recording of their concert in Tokyo. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke's Grammy-winning release, Jazz in the Garden. In the summer of 2021, Hiromi performed at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Debuting with the Czech Philharmonic at 14, the Hamamatsu, Japan native was mentored by Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal early in her development, signing her first record deal with Telarc before graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Blending a foundation in classical repertoire with a deep feeling for the jazz tradition, she's collaborated with Corea and Stanley Clarke, led over a dozen albums in settings including solo piano, her original trio, the Sonicbloom quartet featuring guitarist David Fiuczynski, her Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips, and recently in duo with Colombian harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda.
During this week, the improvisational fireworks of Sonicwonder will take Hiromi's boundless imagination and joyful expressiveness into new territories of exploration.
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Ever since the 2003 release of her debut, Another Mind, Hiromi has electrified audiences with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1979, Hiromi's first piano teacher, Noriko Hikida, exposed Hiromi to jazz and introduced her to the great pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. She enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music and started writing music. Hiromi moved to the United States in 1999 and studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Among her mentors was jazz bassist/arranger Richard Evans, who took Hiromi's demo to his friend, the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal. Evans co-produced Another Mind with Jamal. Another Mind was a critical success in North America and Japan, where the album shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's Jazz Album of the Year Award. Hiromi's astonishing debut was but a forecast of the shape of jazz to come. In 2009, she recorded with pianist Chick Corea on Duet, a live recording of their concert in Tokyo. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke's Grammy-winning release, Jazz in the Garden. In the summer of 2021, Hiromi performed at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
No jazz pianist alive is possessed of more explosive virtuosity or thrilling unpredictability than Hiromi - a GRAMMY-winning artist the All Music Guide calls "one of the most remarkable pianists of the past half century." This season, she brings the San Francisco premiere of her groove heavy new Sonicwonder quartet of young giants featuring the masterful trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, French-born bass phenom Hadrien Feraud, and monster drummer Gene Coye, celebrating the release of her 2023 Telarc album Sonicwonderland.
Debuting with the Czech Philharmonic at 14, the Hamamatsu, Japan native was mentored by Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal early in her development, signing her first record deal with Telarc before graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Blending a foundation in classical repertoire with a deep feeling for the jazz tradition, she's collaborated with Corea and Stanley Clarke, led over a dozen albums in settings including solo piano, her original trio, the Sonicbloom quartet featuring guitarist David Fiuczynski, her Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips, and recently in duo with Colombian harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda.
During this week, the improvisational fireworks of Sonicwonder will take Hiromi's boundless imagination and joyful expressiveness into new territories of exploration.
~~~~~~~~~
Ever since the 2003 release of her debut, Another Mind, Hiromi has electrified audiences with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1979, Hiromi's first piano teacher, Noriko Hikida, exposed Hiromi to jazz and introduced her to the great pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. She enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music and started writing music. Hiromi moved to the United States in 1999 and studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Among her mentors was jazz bassist/arranger Richard Evans, who took Hiromi's demo to his friend, the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal. Evans co-produced Another Mind with Jamal. Another Mind was a critical success in North America and Japan, where the album shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's Jazz Album of the Year Award. Hiromi's astonishing debut was but a forecast of the shape of jazz to come. In 2009, she recorded with pianist Chick Corea on Duet, a live recording of their concert in Tokyo. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke's Grammy-winning release, Jazz in the Garden. In the summer of 2021, Hiromi performed at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
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Debuting with the Czech Philharmonic at 14, the Hamamatsu, Japan native was mentored by Chick Corea and Ahmad Jamal early in her development, signing her first record deal with Telarc before graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Blending a foundation in classical repertoire with a deep feeling for the jazz tradition, she's collaborated with Corea and Stanley Clarke, led over a dozen albums in settings including solo piano, her original trio, the Sonicbloom quartet featuring guitarist David Fiuczynski, her Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips, and recently in duo with Colombian harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda.
During this week, the improvisational fireworks of Sonicwonder will take Hiromi's boundless imagination and joyful expressiveness into new territories of exploration.
~~~~~~~~~
Ever since the 2003 release of her debut, Another Mind, Hiromi has electrified audiences with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Born in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1979, Hiromi's first piano teacher, Noriko Hikida, exposed Hiromi to jazz and introduced her to the great pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson. She enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music and started writing music. Hiromi moved to the United States in 1999 and studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Among her mentors was jazz bassist/arranger Richard Evans, who took Hiromi's demo to his friend, the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal. Evans co-produced Another Mind with Jamal. Another Mind was a critical success in North America and Japan, where the album shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan's Jazz Album of the Year Award. Hiromi's astonishing debut was but a forecast of the shape of jazz to come. In 2009, she recorded with pianist Chick Corea on Duet, a live recording of their concert in Tokyo. She also appeared on bassist Stanley Clarke's Grammy-winning release, Jazz in the Garden. In the summer of 2021, Hiromi performed at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
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