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〜どこか懐かしく感じるハーモニカの音色とピアノの優しいデュオ〜 『Watercolors』

〜A gentle duo of nostalgic harmonica tones and piano - "Watercolors".

street live

Sunday, August 25, 2024

1st stage/13:00-13:30 2nd stage/15:00-15:30

Special Stage, B1F, Mint Kobe

Name of Performer

Tomokazu Yamada
Chromatic harmonica, keyboard harmonica player, composer/arranger

Began performing as a jazz trumpet player while in college.
His group focuses mainly on original music and has released two albums.
Suspended his activities as a trumpet player due to the onset of occupational dystonia.
Since 2014, as a keyboard harmonica player, he has formed the duo unit "Ibuki Sarasara" with vocalist Daisuke Ito, performing throughout Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
As a composer and arranger, he has had five songs selected as semi-finalists and three as finalists in the International Songwriting Competition, the world's largest composition competition in the United States.
Encountering the chromatic harmonica, he began his career as a jazz chromatic harmonica player, drawing on his previous musical experience.
After about a year of serious practice, he won third place in the 42nd F.I.H. Harmonica Contest, Chromatic Solo / Jazz & Pops Division.




Nishigaki Dorami
Piano

She began playing classical piano at the age of four, and studied under Chizuko Ueda and Kyosuke Kobayashi at the Junior College of Osaka College of Music.
After graduation, studied jazz piano under Kiyoshi Takeshita and Junichi Saeki at Koyo Music Academy.
While giving piano lessons and participating in recordings, he also gained experience performing as live support at the Nippon Budokan, Fukuoka Dome, Intex Osaka, and various other live houses, halls, and hotels throughout Japan.
[2017] With Eric Jacobsen of Asobo in English, Shoko Haidashi, and others.
[2019] Participated as play accompaniment pianist in OSK Nippon Opera Company's OG performance for the opening of Cool Japan Park Osaka TT Hall.
2021] Performed with actress Kiriko Shimizu, who appeared in "The Lady of Martha" and other films, at a live reading.
2022] Released his second album "Alive" as a unit with saxophone player Joy Inoue.
Currently, he is active mainly in jazz while supporting the pianica wizard and others.