Naomi Maki

Naomi Maki graduated from the Conservatoire of Shobi in Japan and studied under Kenjiro Urata and Hidehiko Arashino in counterpoint and harmonics. She also studied both Jazz piano and Hammond organ under the principal Yuri Tashiro. Her first album Time, Time after Time was released in 1986 on the BMG/Victor label. She worked with a noted Flamenco dancer, Jose Miguel, and collaborated with gypsy musicians on piano compositions. Also from 1991 to 1993, Naomi studied Kiyomoto, a traditional form of Japanese singing. She lived in New York for two years, seven years in London, and now she lives in Seoul, Korea with her family.

Naomi composed pieces actively, including the official school song for Maeda Gakuen in London in 1999. From 1998 to 2004 she studied under the leading Early Music tenor, Nigel Rogers.

Together with her musical career, Naomi Maki has been an enthusiastic painter for many years. She had an exhibition and concert organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London, in 1999.

In August 2000, she participated in Kobuchizawa Music Festival in Japan with a Maki Naomi Shima-uta wo Utau concert (music of Ryukiyu region near Okinawa). A CD recording of her concert was released in Japan.

Naomi organized a concert in London (SOAS Brunei Gallery Theatre) authorized and supported by Japan 2001, as well as other sponsors, under the title Songs and Rhythms of Okinawa, and joined by other artists who perform throughout Europe. In 2002, worked with a Japanese drumming team, and performed a part of the BBC documentary, ?n Search of Shakespeare·harpsichord and vocals). She regularly performed at Rosslyn Hill Chapel in Hamstead. In 2003, had a series of exhibitions for her paintings and concerts called ?nbounded·in Japan.

Every summer and winter she goes back to Japan to hold a concert. As well as her own solo concert she also performs with her father who is a tenor and painter and with her mother who is a pianist.

She is currently collaborating with David Cross (a former member of the progressive rock band ?ing Crimson· for her third CD.

Influenced by traditional Japanese, English and Italian music, she combines her influences from both traditional and modern music with her own sense and feel for music and offers her own unique style. Her first concert in Korea was in November 2005.