Born: 1979 in Shizuoka, Japan
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Instruments: Piano

Pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara was born in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1979. At the age of six she started playing piano. Within a year, she was a student of the Yamaha School of Music, whose progressive approach to musical training allowed the young student to shape her technical skills, writing and performing. After relocating to the United States in 1999, she continued her studies at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where she received a full scholarship. It was there that Hiromi developed her varied musical taste, encompassing everyone from J.S. Bach to Sly & the Family Stone. While at Berklee, she also had the opportunity to play with jazz piano legends Oscar Peterson, Chick Corea, and her mentor, Ahmad Jamal. In 2003, Hiromi released her first disc, Another Mind, on the Telarc label, produced by Jamal. Brain followed a year later.

-Al Campbell (All Music Guide)