Yoko Miwa
Critically acclaimed pianist and JVC Victor Entertainment Recording Artist Yoko Miwa has spent the past decade honing one of the most musical trio sounds on the jazz scene. Miwa is an artist with a unique sound, style and meaning to her fans. In addition to being voted Best Jazz Act by the Boston Phoenix in the 2012 Best Music Poll, The Yoko Miwa Trio made their Blue Note NYC debut in 2014 to rave reviews. “Miwa had just as much fun sending the rhythm section away and swinging by herself as she did engaging in a tightly spiraling, interlocking web of melody…pensively spacious minor-key blues, a scampering right hand against a stern left, tension and release around a central tone, intricately conversational interplay with the guys in her fantastic trio…She’s fun to watch and just as tuneful.” — The New York Music Daily. The Yoko Miwa Trio released their major label debut CD in Japan titled Act Naturally on the JVC Victor Entertainment label in 2012 and she toured Japan with her trio that same year to rave reviews. “She is one of the best jazz pianists in Japan,” said Yozo Iwanami, Jazz Hihyo Magazine. She was appointed an Assistant Professor of Piano at Berklee College of Music in 2011. She has played sold out shows in NYC and Boston, and she was chosen to play a special concert, Marian McPartland & Friends at Dizzy’s at Lincoln Center, as part of The Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival.
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Jazz Pianist Yoko Miwa Performing at les Zygomates in Boston on January...
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Japanese Jazz Pianist Yoko Miwa Performs at les Zygomates in Boston on...
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Japanese Jazz Pianist Yoko Miwa Performs at Ryles on Sunday, November 13
July 26, 2011
Japanese Pianist Yoko Miwa Performing Two Free Concerts at Boston's...
July 01, 2011
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June 01, 2011
Greg Abate and Yoko Miwa Performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on...
Pianist Yoko Miwa displays unpretentious melodies, elegant phrasing, and the lyrical sensibility of a jazz poet.” —Jazziz Magazine
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Piano
Credentials/Background
Berklee College of Music - Assistant Professor, Piano Department
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