Ishikawa Satoshi is a drummer born in Tokyo in 1967. He was influenced by his older brother who played percussion with a brass band. Since he was nine years old, he began to played the drum in elementary school. In high school, he was interested to funk, soul, fusion and hard rock.
Chiaki Hosokawa is a pianist born in 1988 in Toyama prefecture. In 2013, she was the first Japanese finalist at the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition in Switzerland.
She performed a solo concert at Toyama, and at Montreux Jazz Festival in Kawasaki. In April 2014, she performed a solo concert at the Arterikka Sanyuri Arts Festival, and in August she played Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the orchestra at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall.
In September, she appeared in September Music at Montreux (Switzerland) with solo. The second album "I'm home!" was announced in February 2016 also on sale.
Tatsuya Yabe (Tatsuya Yabe, February 5, 1968 -) is a Tokyo-born violinist.
At the age of 5, he started violin with Suzuki Shinichi, and in 1978 he studied with Toshiya Eto. In 1989, he completed the Diploma Course at Toho Gakuen University. In the same year, he won the Tokyo International Music Competition Chamber Music Division Championships. In 1990, when he was 22 years old, he became a solo concertmaster of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
In 1993, he took on the Japan Chamber Orchestra concertmaster. In 1995, he won the 5th Idemitsu Music Award. In May 1996, he released debut CD "Sot Voce". In 1996, he received the Muramatsu Prize and the 1st Hotel Okura Prize. In April 2004, he became a professor at the Ueno Gakuen University School of Music and Culture.
Keigo Torigeki (Tornori Keisuke) is a bassist, composer and arranger from Okayama prefecture. In high school, he joined the brass band and started playing contrabass. After graduation, he worked with a local big band. In 1999, he became a member of PHAT led by Daisuke Fujiwara and made major debut from Blue Note label (Toshiba EMI) in 2001.
In the year 2003, one man live at Shibuya Club Quattro was held, one single and two albums were released. After that, he has participated in home and abroad performances
Yuko Nakamichi (Nakamichi Yuko, August 28, 1967 -) is a pianist from Shizuoka prefecture. In high school, she won the first prize in the 36th All Japan Student Music Competition Piano Division in 1982. In 1986, she graduated from Toho Girls High School Music School and went to Germany.
She won the second prize (highest prize) in the Adolfo L Ableda International Piano Competition in 1988. In 1991, she won the second prize in the 37th Maria Canalus International Music Competition Piano category and a special prize.
In May 1996, she performed a recital debut at Kioi Hall. In autumn 1997, she moved base of activity from Germany to Japan. In addition to recital, she is also active in the field of chamber music, including not only performing with domestic and foreign prominent orchestras such as Classical Philharmonic Bonn, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ikuyo Nakamichi, who made her debut in Japan and Europe in 1987, is one of the most outstanding and sought-after pianists in Japan.
Nakamichi has given many recitals in Japan, including the series of five concerts titled “Ikuyo Nakamichi’s New World” in 1992; the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms series held over a five-year period from 1994 at Casals Hall in Tokyo; and the “Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas,” held over a four-year period from 1997 at Philia Hall in Yokohama and at Kobe Gakuin University. Each of these series has earned Nakamichi high praise for her earnest attitude towards the works and for her superior musicality. She has also earned acclaim for her concerts at Suntory Hall, which have become an annual tradition.
She has also earned high praise for her Mozart and Chopin projects. Her concert series of Complete Mozart Piano Sonatas received widespread attention. Her CDs “Complete Mozart Sonatas” were selected as specially recommended recordings in the November 2013 issue of “Record Arts,” and praised as “the definitive recordings of Mozart performed on the contemporary piano.” Chopin is a composer whose works Nakamichi has always engaged with. In particular, her project “Chopin Keyboard Mysteries,” depicting the composer’s life through images and stories, has won favorable recognition.
A socially conscious musician, Nakamichi serves as the Music Director and Supervisor of a forum held cooperatively with concert halls across the country, “The future that music opens”; and in March 2018 she presented the “1st Ikuyo Nakamichi Piano Festival” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
Since 2003, with the aim of activating regional communities and expanding musical culture, Nakamichi has been working in her roles as special instructor at Osaka College of Music and director of the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities. Since 2012 she has also been active as a professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music(Toho Gakuen College Music Department）.
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