Hiromi inaugura la XXVII edizione del festival Pomigliano Jazz in Campania, sabato 16 luglio all’anfiteatro romano di Avella.
The Japanese pianist and composer, one of the most talented protagonists of the new world jazz scene, will perform exclusively at the Roman amphitheater of Avella on July 16, 2022 with her “The Piano Quintet”.
In the only Italian date of the European tour she presents her latest album “Silver Lining Suite”, released last October and composed during the quarantine while she was engaged in a series of streaming performances to support the Blue Note in Tokyo and New York. Accompanying her on this intense musical journey will be an excellent string quartet composed of Tom Pigott-Smith (violin), Shlomy Dobrinsky (violin), Meghan Cassidy (viola) and Gabriella Swallow (cello).
An artist with great sensitivity and versatility, Hiromi counts among her influences Bach and Franz Liszt, King Crimson, Dream Theater and Sly & the Family Stone.
Last summer she was invited to perform solo piano at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Now, after dates in Japan as a trio and in Brazil as a solo piano, she is coming to Europe for a series of concerts with “The Piano Quintet”. The tour, which started from the Konzerthaus in Vienna, will touch some of the main festivals of the Old Continent, such as the North Sea in Rotterdam or the Festival Da Jazz in St. Moritz, before arriving at Pomigliano Jazz.
Hiromi's concert at the festival directed by Onofrio Piccolo, will be introduced by a live performance by Alessandro Tedesco who will perform his latest album "Magma", published by Paolo Fresu's Tuk Music, in a trio with Giovanni Francesca and Angelo Funaro.
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Born in 1979, Hiromi Uehara enjoys a vast fame for her astonishing virtuosic technique, for the energy she expresses in her concerts and her ability to explore very different musical genres. Her rock, progressive, jazz and fusion influences have made her an original artist who obtains great recognition and awards for all her records.
Appreciated by jazz legends such as Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Ahmad Jamal (her mentor), she studied and graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she had the great Oscar Peterson as her teacher.
Since the release of her first album, “Another Mind” in 2003 (produced by Richard Evans and Ahmad Jamal), Hiromi has electrified audiences and critics with a creative energy that spans diverse styles from jazz to classical to pop, taking improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication.
In her latest work “Silver Lining Suite”, Hiromi further exemplifies her eclecticism and emotional range. The result crosses the boundaries between classical music and jazz, creating a vibrant interweaving possessed by the fervent rock-inspired energy and cinematic beauty that the Shizuoka-born pianist has always instilled in her music.
Tickets for Hiromi’s concert at the Pomigliano Jazz festival are on sale on the AzzurroService circuit and at the main regional sales points. Pre-sale info: tel. 081 5934001 – www.azzurroservice.net.
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