User talk:Eriko Yamaki/sandbox

Eriko Yamaki Mercure, pianist/composer, is a graduate of the Kunitachi College of Music where she studied flute with Mr. Toshinori Ishihara. She then was awarded the “Nichion Scholarship” and attended Berklee College of Music where she received a degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging while studying under the direction of Mr. Greg Hopkins. Also she studied Jazz Piano with Donald Brown. While at Berklee, her studies focused primarily on composition and performance for large jazz ensemble. After graduate college, she was a pianist with the Sonny Watson Quartet, The All Nation Women’s Band and the East West Quartet, the latter of which performed in the greater Boston area as well as in New York City and Tokyo. Then in 2015, after a somewhat extended hiatus, Eriko resumed writing and performing with the jazz trio “TRIchrO”. This trio has been performing original, contemporary and modern jazz throughout the greater Boston, New England area and Tokyo at venues such as Ryles Jazz Club, Lilypad, Longwood Towers Music Concert Series and the Baby Grand Jazz Concert Series in Hartford, Connecticut. “TRIchrO” has just released a new CD titled “Gravity” in March, 2018. In March 2018, Eriko had a Classical and Jazz collaboration Concert with three classical flutist and her jazz piano and Jazz bassist play all her original pieces in Tokyo. In addition to writing for the trio, Eriko has also been composing classical pieces for flute and wood wind ensemble and her pieces were performed in Tokyo, Shizuoka in Japan and Boston by several flute Ensemble and woodwind ensemble groups.