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[Makoto Kuriya Egypt-Europe Tour 2010]
Born in Kobe, Japan, graduated from West Virginia University with a linguistics major, and later studied and performed with Nathan Davis at the University of Pittsburgh. He spent most of 80's in the States and toured with Grammy winning Chuck Mangione in the late 80's. Back to Japan in 1990, he produced a series of CD's resulting in many awards, and was also much in demand for commercial recording work. In the mid 90', he performed the soundtrack for the platinum winning “Neo Genesis Evangelion” which became a global success.
Since 2001, Kuriya has been writing and producing songs for best selling pop artist, Ken Hirai.
In 2002, he completed the movie soundtrack for “Nitaboh” performed by the Warsaw Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, Kuriya performed with his own group and with Herbie Hancock at "Tokyo Jazz", the largest jazz festival in Japan, and in Paris for the “International Music Day” organised by UNESCO, with such greats as Billy Cobham, John Faddis ,and Jonny Griffin.
In 2005, the first European tour ended in great success. The year 2006 went with the second European tour including performances at "the City of London Festival". In 2006, Kuriya also produced a Japan-Australia joint project and toured with the mixture unit in both countries. The year 2007 went with the third European tour including performances at "TanJazz" in Morocco.
Makoto Kuriya's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/makotokuriya
*For more details, please refer to "Profile" from the menu on the right.
*For own albums as leader, please refer to "Works" from the menu.
*Click here for brief profile in French, Germany, and Italian.
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| 2009- |
Music producer for an animation movie "August Symphony". |
| 2009- |
"Makoto Kuriya Piano Trio" Japan tour including Kobe Matsukata Hall and Mito Geibun Hall. |
| 2009- |
"RHYTHMATRIX" Release Japan tour. |
| 2009- |
Produced "Carpenters memorial concert" at Suginami Koukaidou. |
| 2008- |
Produced "JAZZ LA CITTADELLA NIGHT♪X'mas SPECIAL 2008" at Kawasaki Club Chitta. |
| 2008- |
"RHYTHMATRIX" tour including Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan. |
| 2008- |
"Makoto Kuriya Piano Trio" Japan tour including Kobe Matsukata Hall and Edogawa Bunkacenter Hall. |
| 2007- |
"RHYTHMATRIX" Japan tour. |
| 2007- |
"Heatup the Rhythm!" X'mas tour with Philippe Chayeb, Kazunori Kumagai, and Masahiko Osaka. |
| 2007- |
Produced "JAZZ LA CITTADELLA NIGHT♪X'mas SPECIAL 2007" at Kawasaki Club Chitta. |
| 2007- |
"Makoto Kuriya Trio" at Harajuku QUEST HALL, and toured 16 cities in Japan. |
| 2007- |
3rd European tour including Morocco, France and Italy. |
| 2007- |
Performed at TanJazz festival as one of the featured artists. |
| 2006- |
Produced JAJO (Japan -Australia Jazz Orchestra) project. |
| 2006- |
"JAJO" at “TOKYO JAZZ” festival in Tokyo, "Jazz Now" festival in Sydney, and 6 more performances in Japan and Australia. |
| 2006- |
2nd European tour including performance for the "City of London Festival" and "Cologne Jazz Night". |
| 2006- |
Composed, orchestrated and performed at Tokyo Art Theater with New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 2005- |
1st European tour at five venues in Koln, Rome, Paris and Birmingham. |
| 2005- |
Music producer for an animation movie "FURUSATO-JAPAN". |
| 2005- |
Started producing the still on-going web program, "Murano Session" by Nissan.
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| 2005- |
Produced the series concert“The Songs”sponsored by Nikkei Times at Tokyo Kioi Hall. |
| 2005- |
Produced the concert "Kohsaku Yamada New Collaboration vol.5 " at Tokyo Kioi Hall. |
| 2004- |
Performed for "International Music Day" session by the committee of UNESCO in Paris. |
| 2004- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at “TOKYO JAZZ” festival. |
| 2004- |
Appeared on NHK-BS 2 New Year special live broadcast program. Improvisation with poem Reading. |
| 2004- |
Produced the sound track for a short movie "Fucha : Beyond the Melody". |
| 2004- |
Produced the concert "Kohsaku Yamada New Collaboration vol.4 " at Tokyo Kioi Hall. |
| 2004- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Osaka Phoenix Hall. |
| 2004- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Hakuju Hall. |
| 2003- |
Appeared as a music producer on a short movie "No Music, No Life" presented by Tower Records. |
| 2003- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Ritto Center Hall for Fine Arts "Sakira". |
| 2003- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Jazz In Toranomon Festival. |
| 2003- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Super Dream Lake Festival. |
| 2002- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Suntory Hall. |
| 2002- |
Music producer for an animation movie "NITABOH". |
| 2000- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Katsushika Symphony Hills Hall. |
| 1999- |
"MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL" in Japan. |
| 1999- |
"Makoto Kuriya Group" at Nikkei Hall. |
| 1995- |
"Jazz Yatora Festival" in India as an ambassador of goodwill with own unit. |
| 1990- |
The First Prize of Young Pianist Division for Swing Journal. |
| 1990- |
Westinghouse Cultural Award. |
| 1989- |
The First Prize Pianist Award in Ohio Jazz Competition.
...and many other appearances. |
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The list also goes on to song-writing of commercials, TV theme songs, radio theme songs, fashion shows, producing work for vocal and instrumental artists, and many guest appearances for concert and broadcast performances. |
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| [Performed With...] |
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Chuck Mangione, Nathan Davis, John Faddis, Jonny Griffin, Billy Cobham, Donald Byrd, James Moody, Toots Thielmans, Curtis Fuller, Chico Freeman, Arthur Blythe, Billy Drummond, Mark Whitfield, Bennie Maupin, John B, Williams, Wallace Roney, Paul Jackson, Bill Watrous, Tom Brown, Michael O'Neill, Eric Marienthal, Maurice Brown, Stanley Jordan, Abraham Laboriel, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Dennis Chambers, Carroll Thompson, Ron Brown, Daniel Humair, Stephane Huchard, Philippe Chayeb, Pierre Boussaguet, Gianluca Renzi, Tchavolo Schmitt, Costel Nitescu, Youn SunNah, Zakir Hussain, Michael Paulo, Gary Thomas, Rick Margitza, Toninho Horta, Shiela Jordan, Mike Metheny, James Genus, Jack Walrath, Steve Wilson, Santi Debriano, Winard Harper, David Linx, Marc Godfroid, Nelson Veras, Jim Pugh, Tommy Campbell, Terumasa Hino, Kazumi Watanabe, Hiromitsu Agatsuma, Eitetsu Hayashi, Tiger Ohkoshi, Takeshi Ito (T-SQUARE), Masataka Hirano, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, etc.
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| [Endorcement] |
| YAMAHA corporation: Motif 7, Motif 8 etc. |
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