The Trio Project, Move (Telarc Jazz, 2012).The Trio Project, Voice (Telarc Jazz, 2011).Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Beyond Standard (Telarc Jazz, 2008).Hiromi's Sonicbloom, Time Control (Telarc Jazz, 2007) – rec.Another Mind ( Telarc Jazz, 2003) – rec.
They met after she performed at one of his fashion shows in Milan the year before. Uehara married Japanese fashion designer Mihara Yasuhiro in 2007. In a 2010 interview, Uehara said she plays the Yamaha CFIII-S concert grand piano, Nord Lead 2, Clavia Nord Electro 2 73, Clavia Nord Stage Piano, and Korg microKORG. In 2023 she performed a Tiny Desk Concert. In 2021 she performed at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Spark reached the number one position on the US Billboard Jazz Albums chart for the week of April 23, 2016. The Trio Project went on to make the albums Move (2012), Alive (2014), and Spark (2016). There, she was mentored by Ahmad Jamal and had already signed with jazz label Telarc before her graduation.Īnthony Jackson, who was previously a guest on the Brain album, joined Uehara along with drummer Simon Phillips as part of the Trio Project for the 2011 album Voice. After being a jingle writer for a few years for Japanese companies such as Nissan, she enrolled to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. When she was 17 years old, she met Chick Corea by chance in Tokyo and was invited to play with him at his concert the next day. At age 14, she played with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. She started learning piano at the age of six and was introduced to jazz by her piano teacher Noriko Hikida when she was eight. She is known for her virtuosic technique, energetic live performances and blending of musical genres such as stride, post-bop, progressive rock, classical, nu jazz and fusion in her compositions. Hiromi Uehara ( 上原 ひろみ, Uehara Hiromi, born 26 March 1979), known professionally as Hiromi, is a Japanese jazz composer and pianist.