HIROMI: THE TRIO PROJECT

“One of jazz piano’s most brazenly virtuosic players” JazzTimes

After three sold out performances at the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival on her first visit to Australia, it’s Sydney’s turn to witness the dazzlingly talented Hiromi.

Hiromi’s star was rising from an early age, with credits including a gig with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at age 14 and a personal invitation to play with Chick Corea at 17, before she launched her professional career.

She has since electrified audiences and critics globally with a creative energy that encompasses and eclipses the boundaries of jazz, classical and pop, and taken improvisation and composition to new heights of complexity and sophistication.

“I don’t want to put a name on my music,” says Hiromi. “Other people can put a name on what I do. It’s just the union of what I’ve been listening to and what I’ve been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don’t want to give it a name.”

Call it what you will, but don’t miss Hiromi’s Sydney debut, joined by her equally formidable Trio, bassist Anthony Jackson and drummer Simon Phillips, presented by City Recital Hall and Melbourne International Jazz Festival.

Saturday 11 June, 7.30pm