Makiko Hirabayashi

Makiko Hirabayashi
Makiko Hirabayashi Trio, Marilyn Mazur (d), Klavs Hovman (b)
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Makiko Hirabayashi (born 1966) is a Japanese jazz pianist based in Denmark.[1] She learned to play piano at the age of four, and subsequently violin at nine. As a teenager, she became interested in jazz and won a fellowship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduation, she moved to Denmark.[2]

She says that her compositions were influenced by classical, oriental, and Scandinavian music. However, she is not involved with Japanese jazz music which she defines as mainstream-oriented.[3]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 Kopman, Budd (30 October 2014). "Makiko Hirabayashi: Surely (2013)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. "Tanz zwischen den Genres". Badische Zeitung (in German). 12 December 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  3. "Ich freue mich schon auf Halle" (in German). Kulturfalter. January 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
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