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Riho AKiyama (Trumpeter, composer, arranger, fashion model, and screenwriter)

 

Born in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, she started playing the piano at the age of three.
After entering Kita-Kamakura Girls' High School, she majored in trumpet at the music department.

After graduating from the high school, she traveled around Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Seville and Malmö, then she started the work as a trumpeter in Berlin, focusing on classical music.
When having lived in Berlin, she always wore kimono (Japanese traditional clothing), and served as a fashion model for one of the kimono brand as well.

After 3 years have passed in Berlin, she came back to Japan and started learning the various genres/types of trumpet performance method under Master YOKAN, who is a very famous and multi-wind-instrument-player in Japan.

While participating in top artists' recordings, live performances, shooting for TV programs and music videos, she also describe herself as a "Japanese Fantastic Trumpeter'', and keep composing the fantastic music about the old and new Japanese tradition to deliver the dream and hope to the world with her music.

Recently she's been working mainly in the following field;
-Horn-arrangements of the music for 2.5-dimensional stage/theater,
-Creating the composite art containing music, dance and theatrical elements
-Live performance
-Teaching Trumpet

The number of her pupil has reached over 100 persons all over Japan.
(Recently she's started teaching trumpet online, too)

 

▼Recording Session

- Ame nochi Hallelujah (The Rain Will Turn to Hallelujah) / Yuzu

-Hidamari (Sunny Spot)/Yuzu

-Utopia/Yuzu

-Snow Magic Fantasy

-Gyakuten fanfare (Changeover Fanfare)/SKY HI (Mitsuhiro Hidaka from AAA)

-Shugarirura feat. Risa Aizawa / Hanae

-Musical Theater "A3!!" Theme song, Inserted songs, etc....

 

▼Appearance in Music Video

-Ame nochi Hallelujah (The Rain Will Turn to Hallelujah) / Yuzu

-Utopia/Yuzu

-Chigau, Soujyanai (No, it's not like that) / D-LITE(from BIGBANG)

 

▼Appearance on TV (Supporting artists）

-Kohaku Uta-gassen (Red vs White Music Show) / NHK

-Music Japan / NHK

-SONGS（NHK）

-Ashita-e-Concert (Concert for tomorrow) /NHK BS

-Bokura-no-Ongaku (Music for us) /Fuji Television

- Japan Record Awards / TBS

・COUNT DOWN TV / TBS

・Best Artist 2013 / Nippon Television

・Baka-Rhythm 02 / Nippon Television

・LIVE MONSTER / Nippon Television

・Music Station / TV Asahi

・Best Hit Music Festival /Yomiuri Telecasting

 

▼Appearance in live stage performance

・K-1 AWARDS 2019 Solo Trumpet Performance

・Hairdressing Conetest "Dream Plus" Opening Fanfare at Nippon Budokan

・”Cherry Blossom Viewing for Adults” by Shinjyuku Isetan Solo Trumpet performance

・Taste Festival Berlin in Germany Trumpet Performance

 

▼Trumpet Riho Akiyama is 

using

YTR-8335 (Custom-made instrument)

For more detail, please visit Yamaha Official Website Z ARTIST BANK