Yoko Miura
Photo credit: Seán Kelly
I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers.
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Tokyo based Yoko Miura trained as a classical pianist before moving into the worlds of Jazz and popular music. She began free improvisation with the Shakuhachi in a workshop setting and since 2002 has been performing as an improvisor in her native Japan and in Europe, having played with a.o Osamu Karuda, Jean Borde, Hans Koch and Yoshihiro Goseki. She gains her inspiration from natural scenery and nature and her music contains elements of peace and tranquility.
Musicians with whom she has played:
In Japan: Noribumi Uchida (shamisen, bass), Nakao (sax, trombone, clarinet), Osamu Kuroda (performance), Kyoko Oikawa (violin), Ryouichi Saito (guitar), SACHI-A (drs), Jyunzo Tateiwa (percussion), Michi Kinugasa (sax, clarinet)
In Europe: Teppo Hauta-Aho (bass), Gianni Mimmo (sax), John Russell (guitar), Lawrence Casserley (electro), Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg (voice), Mia Zabelka (violin), Stefan Keune (sax), Charlie Collins (drs), Derek Saw (trumpet), Ove Volquarlz (bass clarinet), Jean Demey (bass), Jacque Foschia (bass-clarinet), Hans Koch (sax), Emmanuel Rébus (mathematical sounds), Harold Schellinx (mathematical sounds), Claude Perle (accordion), Judith Kan (vocal), Anthony Carcone (guitar), Jean Borde (bass), Raymond MacDonald (sax), Simon Berz (drs), Paed Conca (bass, Clarinet), Margrit Rieben (drs), Raed Yassin ( el.bass), Eugene Darredeau (art), Alison Blunt (violin), Jean-Marc (synth), Thierry Waziniak (drs), Matt Wilson (drs)