Satoko Fujii

Satoko Fujii is a Japanese pianist, accordionist and composer, born in Tokyo in 1958. She trained as a classical pianist before turning to jazz, and she works in avant-garde jazz and free improvisation, writing for settings from solo piano to big band. She is known for a very large discography, much of it on her own Libra label, and for her long partnership with her husband, the trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. Fujii studied jazz with Fumio Itabashi in Tokyo, graduated from Berklee in 1987 and took lessons with Paul Bley at the New England Conservatory, where she completed a diploma in 1996.