Yayoi Ikawa
Yayoi Ikawa
Adjunct Lecturer, Jazz Piano
- Website: yayoiikawa.net
Born in Tokyo, Japan, but raised musically in New York, pianist/composer Yayoi Ikawa is an experience in ingenuity and compassion. Using music as a powerful communicational tool, Yayoi strives to lift up humanity through understanding and encouraging herself and others. After recording a straight-ahead jazz piano trio on her Nippon Crown release Angel Eyes in 2004, she self produced Color of Dreams, which displays her original compositions. In 2008, Yayoi started The Bridge Project to create musical dialogue between different cultures and toured in the U.S., Italy, Japan, Costa Rica, and Martinique. While working towards her master's degree at NYU, Yayoi’s orchestra work for film was premiered at Lincoln Center in 2007. As a composer and arranger, Yayoi received commissions from the Modern Music Society of Tokyo, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Montreal-based sculpture David Baumflek. Yayoi has worked with such legendary artists as Reggie Workman, Michael Carvin, Howard Johnson, Michal Urbaniak, Butch Morris, Craig Harris, Lenny Pickett, Frank Lacy, Salim Washington, Emeline Michel, James Germain, Daniel Bernard Roumain, The Meditations, and Kaissa, among others. Yayoi holds a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance from the New School University as well as one in International Studies from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.
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