The BAND

Artist Profile

• Kozue Kuriyama

  Kozue Kuriyama began playing piano at the age of three, and composed her first piece at sixteen. Since then, she has developed her own unique playing and composing sound. She graduated from The Berklee College of Music in 2011, where she was immersed in jazz and contemporary music. She studied with legendary musicians, including Nando Michellin, Leo Blanco, Ross Ramsay, Jeff Covel, Winston Maccow, David Fiuczynski and Victor Mendoza. She received a number of scholarship awards, including the Classical Performance Award in 2010 and the MBNA Professional Music Award in 2011, and several of her compositions were presented at various showcase concerts held at the Berklee Performance Center in 2011.

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