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A native South Korean, Hyungjin Choi is a New York-based jazz pianist and a classical
pianist whose distinctive voice and sound based on a classical background have attracted attention in the New York jazz scene.
After training as a classical pianist from her early age, Choi graduated from the
prestigious Seoul Institute of the Arts in 2006 and moved to New York in 2008 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she earned a BFA degree inperforming arts in 2010 with a jazz scholarship and the Noah Osnos scholarship. There, Choi received the finest jazz education from such jazz masters as Sam Yahel, Reggie
Workman, Charles Tolliver, Jimmy Owens, Charlie Persip and Kevin Hays, and also
became involved in many projects including that of the great Billy Harper.
She has recorded and performed actively in many venues including Carnegie Hall(Weill Recital Hall), Le Poisson Rouge, Cornelia Street Cafe, Cutting Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Shape Shifter Lab, Drom and many others both as a sideman and a band leader. She worked as a music director at Onnuri In2 Church in Manhattan and currently a faculty member of the Music School of Westchester as well as holding a private teaching studio.
She also coordinated a concert series Jazzical Sessions in Bronx. Along with her husband, Cellist Ben Larsen, she also has been actively performing worldwide in Larsen-Choi duo covering extensive repertoire and the duo world premiered some works by notable composers such as Robert Sirota and Ke-chia Chen.
Choi's debut album "Tales Of A Dreamer" was released for PND Records on March 24th, 2014. Her arranging works can be found in many records including Lara Downes’ Grammy-nominated album “Holes in the sky” which was released for Sony Masterworks and also in Korean Music Award nominated “Coffee calls for a cigarette” by Souldman
and Minos.
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Hyungjin Choi
Pianist Fintan O’Neill’s musical training started early, as he came from a musical family in his native Ireland (his mother, for example, sang operatic songs and played piano). After years of classical piano lessons (and a few years of tenor saxophone instruction) Fintan spent his college years playing in rock groups and found himself increasingly drawn to jazz.
The young pianist plunged full time into jazz studies and performance, and by 1987 he was a prize winner in the Jazz Piano category in the Dublin Music Festival Competition (Feis Ceoil). In1988, He began playing with the top Irish Jazz musicians in Dublin and was featured in the Tommy Halferty Trio at the Cork Jazz Festival.
Late in 1989, Fintan moved to New York City and began studies with several top New York pianists including Kenny Werner, James Williams and Larry willis. Shortly after that, Fintan began playing on the New York scene with many top players, including James Spaulding, Regina Carter, Steve Wilson, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington, Larry Coryell, Art Baron, Don Sickler, Brian Lynch, Javon Jackson, Abraham Burton, Theodross Avery, Dwayne Broadnax, Essiet Essiet, Dennis Irwin, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Pierce, Tony Reedus, Jeremy Pelt, Bill Mobley, Billy Drummond, Steve Kroon, Allen Harris, John Ellis,
Fintan O'Neill
Drummer, pianist and composer, Yuko Togami was exposed to music from a very early age as she was always watching her mother teach piano and Eurhythmics. She started taking Eurhythmics classes and playing piano when she was about 5. Later on, she also started playing marimba and studied classical music until she graduated from high school. While she was in high school, she got attracted to drums and began taking drum lessons. A couple years later, she started performing as a drummer based in Tokyo.
In 2013, she moved to New York City to pursue further musical studies at the City College of New York. She received a scholarship from The Kaye Scholars Program, and studied privately with Adam Cruz, Nasheet Waits, and Ben Street. She graduated with her BFA degree in jazz performance and The Pro Musica Award from City College, and has performed with many different musicians and projects including Steve Wilson, Mike Holober, Scott Reeves, Ben Paterson, Bertha Hope, Mark Wade, Jakob Dreyer, Takaaki Otomo, Nori Naraoka, Berta Moreno, Maksim Perepelica, Latvian Concert Choir, Musicsnake, Kijima Sound System.
Her debut album "Dawn" was released in April 2018, and has won a Silver Medal at the 2018 Global Music Awards for Outstanding Achievement.
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Yuko Togami
Junko Sakai
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Junko Sakai is a jazz pianist based in New York City.
Born in Tokyo, Japan she started taking classical piano lessons at the age of 4. After intensively training in classic music, she started singing her original songs in rock and pop bands when she was 16. While she was attending Waseda University, she discovered Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Eroll Garner’s music, and began transcribing. After graduating, she started playing as a professional around Tokyo and kanto direct.
In 2012 she released her debut album “In The Crowd” from T-toc Records. After her tour throughout Japan, she moved to New York and studied with Jean Michell Pilc and Marc Mommaas. For the last six years Junko has performed at many great venues and restaurants.
Junko is very comfortable in a traditional or modern jazz setting.
No matter what style of music she is playing, she always tries to speak with an original voice.
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