Yoko Miwa Trio Brings Jazz to West Falmouth Library

Internationally acclaimed pianist/composer, Yoko Miwa is one of the most powerful and compelling performers on the scene today.  Her trio, with its remarkable telepathy and infectious energy, includes Miwa on piano, Will Slater on bass and Scott Goulding on drums.

The 2022 & 2023 DownBeat Critics Poll named Yoko a Rising Star Pianist.   The Yoko Miwa Trio’s 2021 release Songs of Joy received wide acclaim and reached #1 on national jazz radio charts and was voted best jazz album of 2021 in the DownBeat 86th Annual Readers Poll.  Jazziz called it “a radiant new collection.” CD Hotlist said “…yet another triumph from one of America’s finest jazz pianists.”  The trio has brought audiences to their feet worldwide.

Miwa’s story of becoming a jazz musician is full of serendipity and happy twists of fate.  In the late 1990s the classically trained artist auditioned for Berklee College of Music on a lark and ended up winning a full scholarship. She arrived at the school from her homeland of Kobe, Japan in 1997, intending to stay for a year.  In 2023, she’s still in Boston, enriching the city’s musical life and serving as one of the most popular professors in the Berklee piano department.

“Pianist Yoko Miwa displays unpretentious melodies, elegant phrasing, and the lyrical sensibility of a jazz poet.” – Jazziz Magazine

Concert is co-sponsored by West Falmouth Library