Hiromi Uehara

Hiromi has been taking classical piano lessons since the age of six and her teacher also encouraged her understanding of jazz At twelve she performed with an orchestra for the first time At 14 she played with the Czech Philharmonic At 17 she met Chick Corea and recorded an improvisation for two pianos with him After further experience including composing commercials for Nissan she moved to the United States in 1999 to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston Among her mentors at Berklee was Richard Evans who teaches orchestration Her debut with the Telarc record label was facilitated by Ahmad Jamal Richard Evans coproduced her first record which she recorded before she even graduated It achieved gold status in Japan in 2003 In 2007 she married Japanese fashion designer Yasuhiro Mihara and she performed live at Miharas fashion show in Paris that same year