Researched musician profile
About Junko Moriya
Moriya’s bilingual official biography traces jazz beginnings in Waseda University’s High Society Orchestra, graduate study at Manhattan School of Music, and a return to Japan in 1993. It separates her work as pianist from her composition, arrangement, orchestra leadership, and teaching.[1]
Her official discography spans trio, sextet, octet, and orchestra recordings, including Points of Departure, Art in Motion, and Moving Onward. The artist’s video archive documents both the large ensemble and smaller groups rather than treating every recording as one fixed band.[1][2]
Junko Moriya Orchestra
The official biography documents a regular orchestra devoted to her original compositions and arrangements.[1]
Points of Departure
Moriya’s site records the orchestra album and its 2005 Music Pen Club award.[1]
Composition and teaching
Her profile connects composition, arranging, university instruction, school big-band direction, and contest adjudication.[1]