Location

Chiba

Birthday:

April 4

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Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1999. He started studying violin and piano at 3 years old, and have been studied marimba, vibraphone, jazz theory, and composition by Yoshiyuki Takuma since 4 years old. Also he have studied steelpan by Yoichi Izawa since 7 years old. Became a member of WAIWAI STEEL BAND and Panorama Steel Orchestra since 8 years old as the youngest player. His live activities was started in 2005, and performed with Takashi Mizuhashi and Seiichi Nakamura at the 2006. Since then, has been active in the main field of jazz fusion and bebop. Also, he has been a member of the Contrust Steel band in UK from 2018. Furthermore, he obtained the University of Leicester Alumni music scholarship in 2019 and 2020, and taught by Corey Mwamba for JAZZ Vibraphone and Kevin Hathway for Percussion. 7 Virtual Jazz Club Contest - 5th edition Finalist (as a Treis Protoporos)