has astonished audiences with a creative energy that eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical, and pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication. Taking the stage as part of the electrified four-piece ensembleBorn in Hamamatsu, Japan in 1979, Hiromi’s was first exposed to jazz by first piano teacher, Noriko Hikida, who introduced her to the great pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson.
Hiromi moved to the United States in 1999 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. Among her mentors was jazz bassist/arranger Richard Evans, who took Hiromi’s demo to his friend, the legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal; they co-produced Hiromi’s first album,. The album was a critical success in North America and Japan, where it shipped gold and received the Recording Industry Association of Japan’s Jazz Album of the Year Award., a live recording of their concert in Tokyo.