Kana Miyamoto Bio

KANA MIYAMOTO

Short bio

Kana Miyamoto is a New York-based flutist, educator, and composer originally from Chiba, Japan. Kana is the winner of the National Flute Association Jazz Masterclass competition in 2022 and has also been awarded the "Up-and-Coming Artist Overseas Training" grant by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan in 2002 and the City Corps Grant administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts.In 2014, Kana moved to New York to pursue a performance degree from The New School. She has since graced the stages of prominent venues such as The Jazz Gallery, 55 Bar, and The Jazz Loft, collaborating with international musicians including Frank LoCrasto, Moto Fukushima, Arta Jekabsone, Sammy Weissberg, Mellisa Almaguer. Kana released her band Kanacept's debut album ‘Spring Doze’ in 2017, followed by a successful six-city tour in Japan in 2018. Their second mini-album, ‘Dancer in the Galaxy,’ was released in 2020, and ‘In the Forest ~ flute and kora field recording project~’ in 2021. In 2022, Kana was invited to perform at the Residence of the Ambassador at the Consulate General of Japan in New York for the Friday Night Concert Series. Additionally, Kana holds a degree in Music from the Tokyo College of Music.

Long Bio

Kana Miyamoto is a New York-based flutist, educator, and composer originally from Chiba, Japan. Kana released her debut album “Spring Doze” which already has been getting reviews from magazines and WNYC-FM. Kana is a winner of the National Flute Association Jazz Masterclass competition in 2022.

Kana received the Government Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan awarded Kana an, "Up-and-Coming Artist Overseas Training" grant which allowed her to study abroad to the U.S. for a year in Nevada and the experience there made her decision to graduate from Interlochen Arts Academy after three years of study. Kana returned to Japan to pursue and graduated with a degree in Music at Tokyo College of Music.

Kana moved to New York in 2014 to pursue a performance degree from the New School’s Program for Jazz and Contemporary Music, studied with Steve Cardinas, Billy Harper, Richard Boukas, Marc Mommas, and Jamie Baum, and joined the Hudson Jazz workshop in 2015 as a fellowship student. Her 1st Kanacept album ‘Spring Doze’ was released in 2017 and they went on Japan tour in 2018 and went to 6 places in Tokyo and Kansai Area. In 2019 Kana started Join New York Jazz Workshop as a flute faculty. Kana has been performing at The Jazz Gallery, 55Bar, Nublu, Barbe, and other New York venues with international musicians: Frank LoCrasto, Moto Fukushima, Arta Jekabsone, Sammy Weissberg, and collaborating more various artists. Kana was invited to perform at the Residence of the Ambassador at the Consulate General of Japan in New York for the Friday Night Concert Series, The Moth Gala at the Spring Studio, and Swing into Spring Jazz Festival at the Jazz Loft in Stony Brook. Kana released her debut album ‘Spring Doze’ in 2017, ‘Kanacept’ a second mini-album, as well as ‘Dancer in the Galaxy’ in 2020, ‘In the Forest ~ flute and kora field recording project~’, was released on Spotify and iTunes in 2021.

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Recordings

2021 Kanacept “Dancer in The Galaxy”

2017 Kanacept ''Spring Doze”