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Kento Tsubosaka

Kento Tsubosaka, pianist, keyboardist, composer, was born in Yokohama, Japan.
 
In 2013, he was selected through an audition process to participate in Saito Kinen Jazz Workshop under the instruction of Junko Onishi, as part of the annual Saito Kinen Festival, with Seiji Ozawa as the music director.
 
Kento moved to Boston in order to study at Berklee College of Music, where he entered with a scholarship in Spring 2017. He has been studying with several notable musicians such as Vadim Neselovskyi and Terence Blanchard.
 
In Fall 2017, he was selected to be a part of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, an honors program led by Danilo Perez.
 
Kento graduated from Berklee in 2019, he has perfomed with Paquito D'Rivera, Catherine Russell, Miguel Zenón, and John Patitucci.
He co-leads "soraya" with Kurena Ishikawa and has released 1st single "Hitori/Chiisaku Sayonarawo".  
 
Photo by Leslie Kee