Résumé

Awards

• Jazz Album of the Year, Nissan Presents Jazz Japan Award 2011 (Chihiro Yamanaka: Reminiscense, 2012).
• Jazz Album of the Year, the 23rd Japan Gold Disc Award (Chihiro Yamanaka: After Hours, 2008).
• Theme Show, the 23th Annual Bistro Awards (Greg Purnhagen, Leonard Peters and David Cook: Babalu-cy! – The Art of Desi Arnaz, 2008).
• Best Musical Album for Children, the 49th Annual Grammy Awards (Dan Zanes and Friends: Catch that Train!, 2007).
• Grand Prize, Yokohama Jazz Promenade Contest (Kenji Takeda Group, 1993).

Television Appearance

• Union TV 34: After Dark (with Janice Friedman; 2011)
• Fox News: Strategy Room (with Lois Bruno; 2009)
• New Tang Dynasty Television: Asia Talk (with Kitsune Ensemble; 2009)
• Disney Channel: Playhouse Disney (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2006)
• NBC: Today Show (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2005)
• ABC: Nightline (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2005)
• WGBH Boston: video clip (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2004)
• Noggin: Move to the Music (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2004)
• PBS: Sesame Street episode 4064 (with Dan Zanes and Friends; 2003)
• WHDH Boston: Asian Focus (with Hiro Honshuku Group; 1999)
• Fuji TV (Japan): Hattori Ryoichi Story (role of a musician; 1993)

Festival Appearance

• Red Hook Jazz Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
• Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival (Washington DC)
• Blue Note Jazz Festival (New York, NY)
• CareFusion Jazz Festival New York (New York, NY)
• Long Island Winterfest (Long Island, NY)
• Windham Chamber Music Festival (Windham, NY)
• Motives Festival Genk (Genk, Belgium)
• Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montréal, Québec)
• Winter Jazzfest (New York, NY)
• Central Park Summer Stage (New York, NY)
• Williamsburg Jazz Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
• Celebrate Brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY)
• Newport Folk Music Festival (Newport, MA)
• Marshall Fields Day of Music (Minneapolis, MN)
• Saturday in the Park Festival (Sioux City, IA)
• WBOS Eathfest (Boston, MA)
• Friends of Old Time Music (Iowa City, IA)
• Bethlehem Musikfest (Bethlehem, NJ)
• JVC Jazz Festival (New York, NY)
• Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey, CA)
• Boston Jazz Society’s Annual Festival (Easton, MA)
• Lowell Folk Festival (Lowell, MA)

Recordings

• Holcomb Rock Road, Hope Harris: Picasso, That’s Who! (and So Can You!) (2012)
• Festival Five Record FFR016, Dan Zanes and Friends: Little Nut Tree (2011)
• Posi-Tone Records PR8087, Kenny Shanker: Steppin’ Up (2011)
• Universal Music UUCJ-2090, Chihiro Yamanaka: Reminiscence (2011)
• Posi-Tone Records PR8074, Art Hirahara: Noble Path (2011)
• Mike Eckroth: Sombrío (2011)
• Bickytown Records, Carol Leven: Between the Lines (2010)
• Universal Music UCCJ-2077, Chihiro Yamanaka: Runnin’ Wild (2009)
• Greg Purnhagen: Desiderio (2009)
• Robin Filippone: Robin Filippone (2009)
• Ruzztone Music 1001, Russ Spiegel: Transplants (2009)
• Sarah Corman: Happy Little Tune (2009)
• Festival Five Record, Dan Zanes and Friends: The Welcome Table: Songs of Inspiration, Mystery, and Good Times (2009)
• Mid Corporation, Midori Ikeda: Time He Gave Me (2008)
• The Reformationists: Debut Demo (2008)
• Soundmen on Wax SOW-502, Michael Watford: As (Remixes) (2008)
  with Takaya Nagase
• Random Chance Records RCD-036, Bill Ware: Wonder Full (2008)
• Universal Music UUCJ-2065, Chihiro Yamanaka: After Hours (2008)
• Koch Records KOC-CD-4432, Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra: Enjoy! (2006)
• Alabaster Muzik, Eric Alabaster: Pahgel Meshuggah: Loco Love Music of Eric Alabaster (2007)
• Gozen Reiji Records GR001, Billy Fox: Kaidan Suite (2006)
• Old Town School, v.a.: Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook, Vol. 1 (2006)
  with Dan Zanes and Friends
• Verdict Records, Dexter Porter: Crazy She Calls Me (2006)
• Crows’ Kin Records, Jacob Varmus: All the Things We Still Can Be (2006)
• Festival Five Record FFR009, Dan Zanes and Friends: Catch that Train! (2006)
• Universal Music UCCU-1096, Chihiro Yamanaka: Universal a Go Go! (2006)
• Inbar Fridman: She Had (2005)
• Peter John Stoltzman: Cycles (2005)
• Festival Five Records FFR008, Dan Zanes: All Around the Kitchen! Crazy Videos & Concert Songs! (DVD; 2005)
• Alex Levin: Night and Distance (2005)
• Vitamin Records VIT-8747, String Vandaloo: A String Quartet Tribute to Massive Attack (2005)
• Ollio Records, Antonio Barbagallo: Colemania (2004)
• Festival Five Records FFR007, Dan Zanes: Parades and Panoramas: Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg (2004)
• Festival Five Record 004, Dan Zanes: Sea Music (2004)
• Tom Chang: Tom Chang Quartet (2003)
• Festival Five Record FFR006, Dan Zanes and Friends: House Party (2003)
• Alison Jolicoeur: The Light I See (2003)
• Kultur D2932, PBS: Born to be Wild: The Leading Men of American Ballet Theatre (DVD; 2003)
• Coco Ruzier: Coco Ruzier Quartet (2002)
• Jarkko Palocas: 3+ (2000)
• The Berklee Rainbow All Stars: Who Knows? – Music by Manuel Perovic (1999)
• BMG Jazz Foundations D12822, v.a.: Summa Cum Jazz vol.2 – The Guitar Album (1999)
  with Jaleel Shaw Quintet
• Berklee College of Music BCSPCD17, v.a.: Discovering Berklee (1998)
  with Jaleel Shaw Quartet
• Dill’s Company Inc. DISK-1001, v.a.: From Artist (1995)
  with Hiroko Mochida
  • re-released as Madelaine Records MARE-003, Hiroko Mochida: Hiroko Mochida (2001)

Composition/arrangement

• Orchestration for Gunma Symphony Orchestra (Yagi-Bushi for Piano and Orchestra; 2009)
• Arrangements for Sarah Corman (Happy Little Tune; 2008)
• Composition/arrangement for Jacob Varmus (Perpetual Motion; 2006)
• Composition for Jaleel Shaw (Whatever; 1998)

Publication

• Oscar Stagnaro, Afro-Cuban Slap Bass Lines, Japanese Edition, Tokyo: ATN Inc., 2005 (translation)

Teaching

• Private instructor (piano, guitar) for Westchester Home Music (2007–08).
• Conducted jazz ensemble clinics at Boston University, Berklee College of Music and the Collective (New York City).

Education

• Diploma in performance, Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1999.
  • Reciepent: Outstanding Performer Award (1998).
  • Reciepent: Berklee Achivement Scholarship (1997–99).
• B.E. in electric engineering, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 1995.
  • Paper: H. Osaki, Y. Waki, H. Hayashida, E. Masada, Numerical Simulation of a Maglev Vehicle Running on the Elastic Guidway at High Speed, Bulletin of the Third Transportation and Logistics Conference, Jointed Railway Technology Symposium ’94 Vol. 940–957 (Dec. 1994), pp. 193–198.