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Naoko's website featuring biography, reviews, itinerary, recordings.
Naoko was born and raised in Tokyo. She began piano lessons at age three and added the guitar in junior high. By the time she reached high school she was already writing her own music. Then, while in college, Naoko discovered jazz and began her career as a vocalist.
In 1987, while still in college, Naoko was awarded the Gold Prize in Japan's nationwide Asakusa Jazz Festival Jazz Vocal Competition. Three years later, she decided that in order to continue to grow as a jazz artist, it was time to go where most of the world’s great jazz players eventually come... New York. She enrolled in New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music program (now the Mannes School of Music), earning her BFA. She studied with Junior Mance and Reggie Workman as well as other highly respected jazz musicians. Naoko then completed her Master's degree in Jazz Performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, working under the close tutelage of Jimmy Heath and Sir Roland Hanna ...
Naoko was born and raised in Tokyo. She began piano lessons at age three and added the guitar in junior high. By the time she reached high school she was already writing her own music. Then, while in college, Naoko discovered jazz and began her career as a vocalist.
In 1987, while still in college, Naoko was awarded the Gold Prize in Japan's nationwide Asakusa Jazz Festival Jazz Vocal Competition. Three years later, she decided that in order to continue to grow as a jazz artist, it was time to go where most of the world’s great jazz players eventually come... New York. She enrolled in New School's Jazz & Contemporary Music program (now the Mannes School of Music), earning her BFA. She studied with Junior Mance and Reggie Workman as well as other highly respected jazz musicians. Naoko then completed her Master's degree in Jazz Performance at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, working under the close tutelage of Jimmy Heath and Sir Roland Hanna ...
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