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BIO

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.

Hide 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 Hatsuko Ishizuka and Osamu Kajitani.

In 2009, Hide was selected as a representative of the Junior Original Concert (JOC) and performed at their highlight performance. The same year, he also performed at the Yanagawa City Concert.

After graduating Tsurumaru High School in 2012, Hide entered Seinan Gakuin University as an economics major while pursuing his music career.

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.

In addition to his compositions and performances, Hide’s free improvisations have also been highly acclaimed.

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