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Yoko Miwa

Yoko Miwa is a pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator whose long-running trio connects original music, standards, and a nine-album catalog.

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Career Overview

About Yoko Miwa

Berklee identifies Miwa as a pianist, composer, bandleader, and associate professor in its piano department. Its faculty biography traces a recording and performance career built around the Yoko Miwa Trio and documents the group’s continuing Cambridge residency.[1]

The faculty discography lists nine trio albums spanning Japanese, independent, and British labels. The sequence moves from In the Mist of Time and Fadeless Flower through live, standards-oriented, and original-music programs including Pathways and Songs of Joy.[1]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, pianist, and composer

Yoko Miwa Trio

Miwa’s central working group joins her piano and writing with bass and drums; Berklee documents both its recording history and resident-artist performances in Cambridge.[1]

Pianist, composer, and arranger

Leader recording catalog

The nine-album faculty discography follows Miwa across several labels and separates her leader work from a broader schedule of guest performances and collaborations.[1]

Associate professor and pianist

Berklee piano department

Miwa brings the communication and interaction of working jazz groups into private piano instruction and other teaching in Berklee’s piano department.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

Jazz Cat Amnesty

Live at Scullers

Trio leader and pianist

Berklee’s discography places this live trio recording within Miwa’s nine-album leader sequence and her long Boston-area performance history.[1]

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Ocean Blue Tear

Pathways

Trio leader, pianist, and composer

Pathways is one of two Ocean Blue Tear releases in the faculty catalog, linking Miwa’s original writing with her established trio format.[1]

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2021 · Ubuntu Music

Songs of Joy

Trio leader, pianist, and composer

The ninth album listed by Berklee extends Miwa’s trio catalog through a program released by the British label Ubuntu Music.[1]

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Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Sep 19, 1:00 PM

PGB Cymbals with special guest Kupo builds cymbal tasting event (1-5pm)

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sat, Sep 19, 2:30 PM

PGB Cymbals with special guest Kupo builds cymbal tasting event (1-5pm)

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Fri, Sep 25, 7:00 PM

Yoko Miwa Trio

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Fri, Sep 25, 8:45 PM

Yoko Miwa Trio

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Fri, Oct 2, 7:00 PM

YOKO MIWA TRIO with Special Guest, Mikayla Shirley

Scullers Jazz Club · Boston

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Fri, Oct 16, 7:00 PM

Yoko Miwa Trio

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Fri, Oct 16, 8:45 PM

Yoko Miwa Trio

The Mad Monkfish · Cambridge

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Faculty biography and nine-album discography

    Berklee College of Music

  2. [2] Official trio and performance channel

    Yoko Miwa