Mukojima Yuriko-violin, viola, accordion, composition, arrangement...occasionally singing

Violin, viola, accordion, composition, arrangement, occasional singing. Started performing in her teens. Involved in various bands such as "Machine Gun Tango" with Kudo Fuyori, "PUNGO" with Kuge Keio, Shinoda Masami, Imai Jiro, and "Betsuni Nanmoklezmer" with Umezu Kazutoki, Makigami Koichi, and others. In 1996, released "right here !!", a collection of original songs. FM Tokyo featured her on a program, and her songs were used on television programs, drawing attention from all quarters.

1997: Served as music director for "Spring Awakening" directed by Kushida Kazumi.

2000: Released a DUO album with the late Swedish genius Lars Holmer.

2002: Performed in concerts and on television programs on a Swedish tour with Lars Holmer and others.

2004: Participated as the only Japanese guest member when the Dutch group Wellem Breuker Kollektif came to Japan.

2007: Performed in France with Otaka Shizuru.

2012: Performed in various parts of Timor-Leste for the Japan Foundation-sponsored event commemorating the 10th anniversary of Japan-Timor-Leste diplomatic relations.

2013: Performed and performed in the play "Coriolanus" by Gekidan Chiten at the London Globe Theatre and the Gorky Centre in Russia.

2015: Performed on a European tour with Tristan Honsinger, known for ICP and the Cecil Taylor Group, and at the Groningen Summer Festival.

2018: Performed as a musician in David Leveaux's production of "Kurosagi" at the Nissay Theatre and the Umeda Arts Theatre.

In 2018, she appeared in Busu-kai*'s "A Fool's Love" starring Tamae Ando.

In 2019, she served as the music director for Busu-kai*'s "Edelweiss" starring Sawa Suzuki.

In 2019, she appeared in KAAT's "Dr. Hoffman's Sanatorium" directed by Keralino Sandorovich.

In 2020, she released her analog solo album "MUKOUJIMA YURIKO". It sold out in just 10 days. Due to popular demand, the download version is now available on Bandcamp (https://uramado.bandcamp.com/album/mukoujima-yuriko-solo). She composed, arranged, and appeared in "Pieta Reading", planned and directed by Kyoko Koizumi.

In 2023, she served as the music director and starred in "Pieta", produced by Kyoko Koizumi.

She is involved in borderless activities such as supporting various genres, numerous sessions, collaborations with dance and recitation, studio work, and sound production.

"Ayako KATO performs a wide range of classical and contemporary music, new musics, improvisation, and performing arts, and has appeared in performances organized by the Ichikawa City Cultural Promotion Foundation, Odawara Cultural Foundation, and the Japan Contemporary Music Society.

In 2019, she held her debut recital "Complex." in Japan. It was reviewed in the music web magazine "Mercure Des Arts".

In 2021, she received a Master's diploma from the Belgian conservatory "IMEP". She completed both the concerto exam, in which she performed violin concerto "The Dreaming Trees" by Dutilleux, and the recital exam, which included improvisation, with the highest scores of the year. She then returned completely to Japan.

In 2024, "SAKUHIN #3 Improvisation by an Actor, Violinist, and Hornist", a joint project with actor Yui Okamoto, was selected for the Arts Council Tokyo Start-up Grant.

Representative of the arts organization "IMPRO LIBRE". Member of the Shinshu-based group "Yamabico Lab." with composer Yukiko Watanabe and Mayuko Matsumoto.

Her main repertoire: The duo for piano and violin those that Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Poulenc, and other composers have written."

"Atsuko Hatano is an experimental string player based in Tokyo, Japan, and a prolific composer, music arranger, and improvisational live musician. She plays the five-string viola, violin and cello, and constructs innovative compositions of multi-layered electronica. She often collaborates and performs live with renowned musicians, including JIM O'ROURKE, EIKO ISHIBASHI, YUTA ORISAKA, MIDORI HIRANO, COREY FULLER, TETUZI AKIYAMA, and OORUTAICHI. She also performed with MOCKY, A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN, ARNOLD DREYBLATT, and TORTOISE during their recent tours in Japan.

She recently contributed music for the installation art exhibition in Tokyo called "Fantastic Voyage" for SEBASTIAN MASUDA, the legendary producer of Japanese idol Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. She also played strings on the "Drive My Car" movie soundtrack, which was composed by EIKO ISHIBASHI. The film won Best Screenplay at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

To date, she has released five solo albums: Cells#5 (2021), Bleeding Heart (2019), Cells#2 (2018), Maria (2013), and Water for 13 (2011). As part of TRIOLA, a progressive string music duo with ANZU SUHARA, she also released the album Chiral (2019), featuring various guest musicians. TRIOLA's second album is currently in the works. She is also preparing to release a collaborative album with MIDORI HIRANO, a Berlin-based musician and composer.

Atsuko completed a European concert tour in 2018-2019, showcasing her original setlists at music festivals and concert venues in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and other countries. The Belgian record label, Off Records, has released several of her tracks digitally. The German record label Alien Transistor will release Atsuko and Midori Hirano's collaboration album in December 2021. Atsuko's eclectic scores and instrumentations have been featured in major films and prominent television commercials. She also collaborated with NAKABAN, a Tokyo-based illustrator and visual artist, and produced an animated film: Poca Luce, Poco Lontano (2007). Launched in 2009, Atsuko offers a music service called ORDER MADE MUSIC, in which she composes an exclusive piece tailored to each client's request. Atsuko also routinely releases new compositions for online music streaming and download services.:

Hiroshi Yoshino 吉野弘志 (Yoshino Hiroshi) is a Japanese bassist, known for the groups Akedairo Orchestra, Akira Sakata Trio, Flying Mijinko Band, Harpacticoida, Higan-No-Shigan, Kidnaping Blues Band, Masahiko Togashi & Improvisation Jazz Orchestra, Matsukaze Koichi's Zekatsuma Akustik Trio, Sakata Sextet, Satoko Fujii Gen, Satoru Shionoya Trio, The Water Colors, フ・タウタフ.

"Born on October 9, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan, Fujii began playing piano at four and received classical training until twenty, when she turned to jazz. From 1985-87, she studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music, where her teachers included Herb Pomeroy and Bill Pierce. She returned to Japan for six years before returning to the US to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where her teachers included George Russell, Cecil McBee, and Paul Bley, who appeared on her debut CD Something About Water (Libra, 1996).

Since then Fujii has been an innovative bandleader and soloist, a tireless seeker of new sounds, and a prolific recording artist in ensembles ranging from duos to big bands. She has showcased her astonishing range and ability approximately 80 CDs as leader or co-leader. With each new recording or new band, she explores new aspects of her art.

Regular collaborations include her New York trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black, augmented by trumpeter/husband Natsuki Tamura to form the Satoki Fujii Four; her duo with Tamura; the Satoko Fujii Quartet featuring Tatsuya Yoshida of the Japanese avant-rock duo, The Ruins; Orchestra New York, which boasts the cream of New York's contemporary avant garde improvisers, including saxophonists Ellery Eskelin and Tony Malaby, trumpeters Herb Roberton and Steven Bernstein, and trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, among others; Orchestra Tokyo, drawing on that city's best improvisers; Orchestra Nagoya; Orchestra Kobe; the co-operative trio Junk Box with Tamura and percussionist John Hollenbeck; ma-do, a quartet including Tamura on trumpet, bassist Norikatsu Koreyasu, and Akira Horikoshi; the Min-Yoh Ensemble with Tamura, trombonist Hasselbring, and accordionist Andrea Parkins; the Satoko Fujii New Trio, featuring bassist Todd Nicholson and drummer Takashi Itani― plus countless engagements and collaborations with some of the world's most important improvisers."

"Akira Horikashi was born in 1965 in Tokyo. He studied drums under Kazuhilo Ebisawa and Syuichi "PONTA" Murakami, Jazz musicians. He loves Japanese traditional music deeply from the influence of his father who is the master of Japanese traditional dance.

In 1990 he made his debut with internationally acclaimed Jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita's Trio, followed by tours throughout Japan, Europe and South America. From 1994 to 2004 he continued his career with Yosuke Yamashita as "Duo Plus".

Though the method of the jazz drum is his basic form, he is developing the original play style which exceeded all genres by mixing many elements such as Japanese music and folk music, also contemporary and classic freely. He performed with Ito Takio, Mari Natsuki, Hirokazu Tategata, Pappa TARAHUMARA, Chen Min, and Satoko Fujii. He has actively participated in overseas performances, and has worked as a producer and a music composer of various music events.

Aside from being a top session artist, he has led his own bands; "The WILL" with Tsuyoshi Watanabe (vl) and Jun Fukamachi (pf), "Toho Ibun" with Japanese traditional instruments, "SOLO-ist" as performing arts with kinetic artist Masato Tanaka. In 2012 he made NY debut with "LOTUS POSITION" with Japanese bamboo flute player Akihito Obama. In 2015, "LOTUS POSITION" with Yousuke Yamashita played to packed houses in Czech and Slovakia, the tour held by the Japan Faoundation.

He was in charge of background music in "Eternal Chikamatsu" and "Kurotokage" directed by David Leveaux. Also he leads "INSTINCT" with Philippe Aymard who was active as clown in Cirque du Soleil and other members. In 2014, he and Yuko Mifune, a classical pianist, started a sensationally unique classic duo "OBSESSION" and is expanded more fans crossover. Their debut album has received critical acclaim.

He currently teaches in two drum schools, and also at Nippon Engineering College in Tokyo."