Hiromi

A jazz pianist born in Hamamatsu, Japan, on March 26, 1979, Hiromi Uehara is also known by her first name. She learned to play the piano at the age of six and, after preliminary studies, left her native country to complete her training at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (USA), between 1999 and 2003. Produced by Ahmad Jamal, her debut album Another Mind, released by Telarc in 2003, put her on the international map with a style that revived electric jazz fusion. Based in New York, the world-famous musician went on to record Brain (2004), which reached number 31 on the Billboard jazz charts, followed by Spiral (2006), featuring the orchestral composition Music for Three-Piece Orchestra. The quartet Hiromi's Sonicbloom, which she formed in the wake of this, produced the albums Time Control (2007) and Beyond Standard (2008), an exercise in appropriating a number of classics. Meanwhile, a concert at Tokyo's Blue Note club saw her play four-handed with one of her role models, Chick Corea, resulting in the double live album Duet (2008), followed by the solo collection Place to Be (2009) and four works credited to The Project Trio, Voice (2011), Move (2012), Alive (2014) and Spark (2016), where the pianist is accompanied by Anthony Jackson and Simon Phillips. After Live in Montreal in duo with Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda and Spectrum in solo, Hiromi created Silver Lining Suite in 2021 with a chamber ensemble, The Piano Quintet, supported by a string quartet. She composed the soundtrack for the film Blue Giant (2023) and formed a new entity, Hiromi's Sonicwonderland, a quartet featuring Hadrien Féraud (bass), Gene Coye (drums) and Adam O'Farrill (trumpet). A debut album of the same name, released in 2023, was followed by Out There in 2025.