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Educated as a keyboardist in Tokyo, Miho Hazama has become one of the most promising and talented composers and arrangers of her generation in New York. She is clearly one of the successors to the established composers, arrangers and leaders of contemporary jazz, notably her teacher and mentor Jim McNeely, with whom she studied at the Manhattan School of Music. Her compositions include works written for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (JP), the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (SE) and the Metropole Orkest (NL). As a conductor, she has been associated with the Danish Radio Big Band, the Metropole Orkest, the WDR Big Band (DE), the Norrbotten Big Band (SE), the KORK Orchestra (NO) and the New York Jazzharmonic, to name but a few. Understandably, her first appearance in Montreal is an event for the local community of musicians and music lovers. The composer and maestra will conduct a program including her own works and others by Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Camila Meza and Christine Jensen. All of which justifies this interview between Miho Hazana and Alain Brunet.
MIHO HAZAMA AND ONJ PERFORM AT GESÙ, ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, AT 8PM. TICKETS AND INFO HERE
Artists in the program
MUSICAL DIRECTION | Miho Hazama
VOICE | Sienna Dahlen
VIOLONS 1 | Zoé Dumais, Alissa Cheung, Brigitte Dajczer, Geneviève Morasse
VIOLONS 2 | Vanessa Marcoux, Marie-Élodie Serfati, Salomé Perli, Brenn Adrien Dalle
ALTOS | Lana Tomlin, Julie Dupras, Julie Babaz
VIOLINCELLES | Elisabeth Giroux, Loredana Zanca
SAXOPHONES AND FLUTES | Jean-Pierre Zanella
SAXOPHONES, FLUTES AND CLARINETTES | André Leroux
SAXOPHONES, FLUTES AND CLARINETTES | Bruno Lamarche
SAXOPHONE BARYTON, CLARINETTE BASSE AND FLUTES | Samuel Blais
TRUMPETS | David Carbonneau, Bill Mahar
TROMBONE | David Grott
COR FRANÇAIS | Jocelyn Veilleux
PIANO | Gentiane MG
COUNTERBASS | Summer Kodama
DRUMS | Kevin Warren
