Yasutaka Yoshioka
Yasutaka Yoshioka

Artist Profile

Yasutaka Yoshioka

Guitarist, composer, Yasutaka Yoshioka has performed throughout Japan, Europe and China. He is an exciting and sensitive musician who performs in the new direction of music. He is the real artist who can create magic moment in music. Yasutaka Yoshioka grew up in Tokyo listening to Jazz, Rock, the Classics, and Japanese traditional music. He earned a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. There he earned the Jim Hall Award for outstanding performance, and graduated first in his class from Berklee College of Music in jazz composition and arranging. He returned to Tokyo and has worked as a freelance guitarist for many various fields of musicians, jazz, pops, rock for their concerts and recordings, and also as a leader of his own group. He has released 2 albums, "The Island" "Journey of my heart" As a composer he has written for TV dramas, news, CM and pop singers and other performing jazz groups. Winner of USA songwriting competition 2011 Instrumental category.

Genre: Jazz Pops
Active area: Tokyo
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