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HIDEAKI URA
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Hideaki (known as ‘Hide’ and pronounced HEE-DAY) is a Japanese pianist/composer/arranger, currently based in Boston. He was born in Nagasaki in 1994.
He studied piano at Yamaha Music School from the age of four, composition at seven, and jazz music at 10. While he was at the Yamaha Music School, he studied with Osamu Kajitani.
In 2017, Hide matriculated at Berklee College of Music. He studied music theory, orchestration and composition with Arnold Friedman and Tamar Diesendruck and piano and composition with Vadim Neselovskyi.
In Spring 2018, Hide formed his trio and subsequently performed at various recitals and worked on a range recording projects.
In 2019, Hide was selected as the 2019 Yamaha Music Scholar by the Yamaha Music Foundation. He toured Japan with Ryo Miyachi (b) and Kunito Kitai (dr) in January 2020.
Hide graduated from Berklee College of Music in May 2020. He describes his music as complicated and highly skilled, while being based on a range of music genres such as jazz, fusion, progressive rock, metal, djent and classical.