Migiwa Miyajima
She has been named 2020 New York City’s Women’s Fund For Media, Music and Theatre recipient and one of 60 inaugural recipients of the Jerome Foundation’s 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships as well as a 2015 finalist for the BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize.
She has also served as associate producer and conductor of Slide Hampton’s big band, and was the Japanese representative of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, for which she associate-produced the Grammy-nominated albums Forever Lasting: Live in Tokyo and Over Time: Music of Bob Brookmeyer.
She is the first Japanese big band leader to headline Birdland (in 2017) since the great Toshiko Akiyoshi in 2003. Formerly editor-in-chief of a travel magazine in Japan, the self-taught Miyajima devoted herself to music full-time in 2004, at age 30. She led her own Japanese big band, miggy+, until 2010, and relocated to New York in 2012 where she met such life-changing mentors as Jim McNeely and Mike Holober.
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September 27, 2018
Miggy Augmented Orchestra U.S. Debut Of "Colorful" This Sunday At...
July 30, 2018
Miggy Augmented Orchestra Entitled Colorful And Performing At Birdland...

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