Session Guitarist

  Takuya Kohashi is Boston and New York based Japanese Guitar player/Composer/ producer Graduated with a Senzoku  Gakuen music school of Japan, majoring in Jazz. And at BerkleeCollege of Music, majoring in performance.

EDUCATION
March 2021 First album"Imaginary Story"released from Apollo Sounds
May 2018　Graduate Berklee College of Music
May 2016 – Present Berklee College of Music –Diploma in Performance
EXPERIENCE
Mar 2016 Get Jazz Orchestra Japan tour
　GJO got "Outstanding Performance awards" (2nd tie) in Large band, Undergraduate category in 35, 36, 37th Student Music Awards (2011, 2013,2016) presented by Downbeat magagine . Also GJO got 2nd prise in 43rd Yamano Big Band Jazz Contest (2012), which is most pristage studtent jazz bigband contest in Japan.
GJO released a couple of CDs . GJO has annual tour in Japan and receives a favorable reputation.
Mar 2016 graduate study excellence award at senzoku gakuen music school
Feb 2016 Makoto Ozone presents Jazz Festival at Conservatory All Star Big Band Jazz japan Award
An annual music award ceremony oranized by NISSAN PRESENTS (2000 Audience and TV Broadcast)
Sep 2015 Makoto Ozone presents Jazz Festival at Conservatory All Star Big Band
appear on the tokyo jazz It is an event of a jazz concert held every summer. Hosted by Tokyo Jazz Executive Committee consisting of NHK, NHK Enterprise and Nikkei Newspaper
Aug 2014 Culture City of East Asia 2014 in China tour
RECORDINGS
Feb 2018”Wherever You want to go” Takuya Kohashi
Feb 2017 “Color less” 3rd album releases by Get jazz orchestra

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