BIOGRAPHY
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Hana Fujisaki is a Chicago-based keyboardist, composer, and music educator. She began her musical journey studying organ and contemporary music at Yamaha Music School in Japan, where she won multiple awards as an organist and composer. She moved to the U.S. in 2012 and studied jazz and Latin music under Pat Coil, Jim Trompeter, and Jeremy Kahn, ultimately earning her M.M. from Northwestern University in 2018.
Fujisaki masterfully shifts between disparate musical settings, playing hymns on the pipe-organ in the morning before rocking out on Key-tar at night. Her musical versatility is showcased by the variety of musical projects and theater productions she collaborates with including Chicago Samba, The Fly Honey Show, CoryaYo, Brandon James, Vox Maris, Da$htone, The Phunk Nasty's, Los Perros Cubanos, Rojo Tango, Hitched, and ORiHANA. In addition to her regular appearances in some of Chicago's most prestigious musical venues, she has also toured and performed in New York, Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Fujisaki is also a passionate music educator who currently directs a choir and teaches piano and music theory classes at Harold Washington College.
神奈川県出身。洗足学園高等学校音楽科を卒業後、音楽留学のため渡米。ルーズベルト大学へ奨学金を得て進学し、同校のジャズ科を卒業後ノースウェスタンの大学院へ進学。サックス奏者のVictor Goines氏やピアニストのJaremy Kahn氏に師事。現在はシカゴ周辺で演奏活動中。