Yuko Yamamura

Genre: Jazz
Secondary Genre: Classical New York / Boston, New York USA Contact

GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest 2012 Jazz category!
Yuko is a especially French horn player and composer. Music is mirror of the natural world. Her music is so intense and mellow. www.yukoyamamura.com

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Biography

GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest 2012 Jazz category!

Yuko Yamamura is a Jazz and Classical French hornist, composer, and arranger.

She was born in Kobe, Japan, and started her musical studies as a singer at the age of seven. She graduated from the Osaka College of Music in 1995, where she studied Classical music with Hiroko Fushimi and Shigekazu Ikeda, and wind ensemble arranging with Toru Takahashi. She also studied Jazz - particularly improvisation with Hiroshi Munekiyo - at the Arrow Jazz Orchestra Music School.

For several years starting in 2001, she taught at the Yamaha School for Wind Orchestra. It was then that she led her own Jazz quintet, and enjoyed performances at Kobe and Osaka, which culminated in a CD, which was recorded at XEBEC Music Production Studios.

She came to the United States, ultimately graduating from the Berklee College of Music as a professional music major, studying both Jazz French horn and composition. While there, she studied Jazz improvisation with Tiger Okoshi, Christine Fawson, and Jeff Galindo.

She has worked with John Clark, Dave Douglas, Schott Collery, Tiger Okoshi, Jerry Granelli, Gerard Angelo, David “Pic” Conley, Sweet Plantain Strings Quartet (including: Eddie Venegas, Romulo Benavides, Orlando Wells, avid Gotay), Giorgio Magnanensi, Ab Baars, Michael Moore, Wolter Wierbos, Jeff Galindo, Christine Fawson, Shinobu Ito, Gizaemon Furuta, Keratuls-Erectus, Ryota Kataoka and more..

At present, she is a member of the Victor Jones Band named Orchestra SIAM, a position she has held since 2009. And French horn / Japanese Taiko Percussion duo named the AJARRIA. They received the best audience award at the Japanese Art Matsuri 2011 at Manhattan.

She continues to perform and compose in a wide variety of styles, (Classical, Jazz, Bossa Nova, Latin, Rock, Funk, Experimental, Free, etc.), and for different venues including for solo French horn to big band.

Instrumentation

Sam Jun Lee - Bass
Ryota Kataoka - Percussion, Kajon, Japanese Taiko drums
Masayuki "Goro" Negoro - Guitar
Arei Sekiguchi - Drums

Discography

Yuko has beautiful music.
-Dave Douglas (Trumpetter/Composer)

Sounds nice! good horn sound, nice intonation, nice tunes!
-John Clark (Jazz French horn player/Composer)


Yuko will do well as a player and comporser in todays music scene. Like another great Japanise aretist, Toshiko Akiyoshi, she using aspect of both style to excellent affect.
-Jeff Galindo (Trombonist)




Japanese Art Matsuri 2011
Manhattan, New York / November 2011


"The September Concert"
September 2004, 2007/ New York City, N.Y.
Performance at 9/11Memorial event,


"The Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music"
May - June 2007/ Banff, Canada AB
Director: trumpet/composer Dave Douglas
Summer master seminar (Full cover charge )


"The Women Musicians Network 10th Annual Concert"
March 15, 2007/ Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA
Perform and compose, arrange songs (titles $B!H(BMirror of minor thirds$B!I(B)


$B!H(BThe La Cage Aux Folles$B!I(B
April, 2005/ Cambrige, MA
A off Broadway musical comedy show


"The XEBEC Music production"
May - August 2005/ Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Arranging songs (Surrounding Music)

February, 2003
French Horn recording (Radio Commercial)


"YAMAHA Music Company"
May 2001 - Present/ Japan
Music instructor for school wind orchestra

Official Website

http://www.yukoyamamura.com

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Your Blues

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Setlist

Jazz performances range from 45 min- 2hr depending on the event.
Most performing is originals, standards and comtemporary jazz also.

Classic concert ranges from 45 min.- 2hr depending on the event. Performing range from Bach and Mozart to contemporary, improvisation music.

Basic Requirements


Calendar

DateTimeVenueCity
Jun 22, 2013 Saturday 7:00 PM La Flor Bakery Café / Mexican Restaurant Queens, NY, US
Jun 29, 2013 Saturday 7:00 PM La Flor Bakery Café / Mexican Restaurant Queens, NY, US
Jul 1, 2013 Monday 9:30 PM Zinc Bar - New York NY, NY, US
Aug 5, 2013 Monday 9:30 PM Zinc Bar - New York NY, NY, US
Sep 2, 2013 Monday 9:30 PM Zinc Bar - New York NY, NY, US