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Akiko Pavolka

Akiko Pavolka is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer and educator who’s strikingly original music blends pop and jazz with the music and sensibilities of her native Japan. Akiko was born in Tokyo and grew up in Yokohama. Her newest recording, her fifth as a leader, is “Mahoroba” for the Fresh Sound New Talent label. It features her band House Of Illusion (Loren Stillman, Nate Radley, Matt Pavolka and Bill Campbell) and her long-time friend Argentinian composer Guillermo Klein performing a set of her brand-new compositions with Japanese lyrics. Pavolka moved to New York in 1995 after graduating Berklee College of Music in Boston and formed House Of Illusion shortly thereafter. She has been performing regularly ever since at venues such as Joe’s Pub, Cornelia Street Café, The 55 Bar, Shapeshifter Lab and Barbes. She has also toured in the United States, Japan, South America, and Europe, headlining at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival in Argentina and Guimaraes Jazz Festival in Portugal among others. Most recently she traveled to Rome to perform with her frequent collaborator, saxophonist Matt Renzi.

She is also active as a music educator. For the past several years she has taught young children in New York’s South Bronx & Brooklyn neighborhoods as part of a program to bring professional artists into public schools and in addition she has a full roaster of private students. Also she has taught master classes at AMR in Geneva (Switzerland) and Universidade Lusiada in Lisbon (Portugal) for music major college students.

"With Mahoroba, Japanese-born and New York-based singer/pianist Akiko Pavolka has conjured up a culture-stitching sound. With her understated vocals, she wraps her timbre around distinctive melodies off to the side of pop and jazz structures and harmonies. Her Japanese Lyrics... convey strong emotive moods." – Downbeat

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Akiko Pavolka's House of Illusion - Live

Akiko Pavolka's House of Illusion - Live

Source: All About Jazz


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Recording

Akiko Pavolka's House of Illusion - "Bridge"

Akiko Pavolka's House of Illusion -  "Bridge"

Source: All About Jazz

akiko pavolka's house of illusion new cd release party.

akiko pavolka's house of illusion will be giving a cd release concert for their second album, bridge:

saturday, july 20 9pm kampo hall 31 bond street, new york, ny 10012 (between bowery and lafayette) phone (212)228-1058 subway: 6 to bleecker st. or b,d,f,q to b'way-lafayette st. admission: $5

akiko pavolka's house of illusion is known for their energetic live shows, combining jazz with elements of rock, funk, electronica. feturered musicians will ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mahoroba

Fresh Sound Records
2012

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Trust Aqua

Tone of a Pitch Music
2009

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Bridge

NCM East
2009

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Begin Again

Tone Of A Pitch Records
2005

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House of Illusion

Self Produced
1998

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