Flutist · Composer · Educator

KANA MIYAMOTO

Award-winning flutist Kana Miyamoto creates intimate, story-led music shaped by improvisation, collaboration, and the natural world.

Kana Miyamoto

1st NFA Jazz Artist Competition · 2024

is a flutist, composer, and educator known for her luminous tone and quietly adventurous musical language.

Her work has taken her from Tokyo College of Music to The New School, and onto stages including The Jazz Gallery, Nublu, and the Residence of the Ambassador of Japan in New York.

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In The Forest

Flute and kora recorded in the living acoustic of a Japanese forest with Yasuhiro Sakairi.

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Spring Doze

Recorded outdoors in a Chiba park in June 2015, this project features Kana Miyamoto, Yasuhiro Sakairi, Makoto Sakurai, and Koshi Ianaba performing music improvised in response to their surroundings, with the exception of Kana’s composition Pocket Rocket.

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Projects

Duo Connections:
A Home Concert Series
A home concert series bringing artists of diverse backgrounds together—sharing original music, cultural roots, and the electricity of close listening.
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In The Forest
Flute and KOra Field Recording Project
Recorded outdoors in a public park in Chiba, Japan, on June 29, 2015, this album features flutist Kana Miyamoto and kora player Yasuhiro Sakairi, with field recording by Makoto Sakurai and Koshu Inaba.
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Podcast
This is a remote-session podcast by pianist Ai Otani, based in Tokyo, and flutist Kana Miyamoto, based in New York City.
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Kanacept
Kanacept is a flute quartet that performs a unique hybrid between classical and jazz. The ensemble features Kana Miyamoto on flute, Kieran McAuliffe on guitar, Sammy Weissberg on bass, Yosuke Nagayama on drums. Kanacept has released first album ‘‘Spring Doze’ in 2017 which has reviewed from Jazz Magazines, played on WNYC-FM and more radios.
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