Ayumi Tanaka

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| image = Ayumi Tanaka (202456).jpg

| caption = Ayumi Tanaka performing in 2018

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| birth_date = 1986

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| origin = Japan

| instrument = Piano

| genre = Jazz

| occupation = Musician, composer

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| website = https://www.ayumitanakamusic.com

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Ayumi Tanaka (born 1986) is a Japanese pianist and composer, known for numerous albums with Norwegian and international jazz musicians.{{cite web |url=http://jazzevidence.no/arrangement/ayumi-tanaka-trio |title=Ayumi Tanaka Trio |publisher=JazzEvidence.no |accessdate=2015-05-31}}{{cite web |url=http://nattjazz.no/index.php?Dag=3&Konsert=150 |title=Ayumi Tanaka Trio (JP/N) |publisher=Nattjazz |accessdate=2015-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531033512/http://www.nattjazz.no/index.php?Dag=3&Konsert=150 |archive-date=2015-05-31 |url-status=dead }}

Education

Tanaka moved to Norway in 2011, and got her education at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she finished her master's degree as a performing jazz musician, after studies with Misha Alperin, Ivar Antonsen, Helge Lien and others.

Career

Tanaka is acclaimed for her own trio with the bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen and the drummer Per Oddvar Johansen.{{cite web |url=http://www.oslojazzforum.no/ayumi-tanaka-trio |title=Ayumi Tanaka Trio |publisher=OsloJazzforum.no |accessdate=2015-05-31 |archive-date=2016-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114083036/http://www.oslojazzforum.no/ayumi-tanaka-trio |url-status=dead }} The group released their debut album Memento in January 2016. With the trio Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød, with Johan Lindvall and Christian Wallumrød, she released the album 3 Pianos i 2016. She has also recorded with Nakama, Mongrel, and with Thomas Strønen's acclaimed Time is A blind Guide on ECM.