Hiromi Uehara in Minneapolis

Hiromi Uehara is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer, born in Hamamatsu in 1979. Her debut album, Another Mind, introduced an instrumental style shaped by jazz fusion, rock and classical music; later releases include Spiral, Time Control, Voice and Spectrum. During the 2000s, Hiromi Uehara toured with Hiromi’s Sonicbloom, a quartet featuring guitarist David Fiuczynski. She later led the Trio Project with bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips. A 2017 duo concert with Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda at the Montreal International Jazz Festival became the album Live in Montreal. At the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021, she performed “Spectrum” on solo piano.