The band includes
- Hiroko Nishikawa, Saxophone
- Jakob Raihle, Piano and vocals
- Anders Olsson, Bass
- Mattias Blanck, Drums
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Doors open at 6pm. Seats on stage at 8pm.
Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
More about Hiroko
Neiro and Hiroko Nishikawa – saxophonist by the grace of God. Hiroko is a Japanese saxophonist, based in Mora. Her musical life began at the age of four with piano and other instruments. At the age of 17, Hiroko began playing her dream instrument, the saxophone.
From 2000 to 2004, Hiroko studied music in the jazz program at Senzoku-gakuen College of Music in Japan, where she learned from American saxophonist/flautist Bob Zung. After graduating, she worked as a freelance musician mainly in Funk, Pop and Ska-punk, while also giving private lessons in Tokyo. Hiroko came to reevaluate her musical life when the terrible earthquake struck Japan in 2011. Hiroko attended a jazz festival near this area, where many people who appreciated music came. By communicating with some of them, Hiroko got the feeling that she wanted to become a better musician, so that she could create happiness with her music. Hiroko decided to move abroad to experience something she had never had before in her life and continue to develop.
In 2013 she settled in Vattnäs Mora, Sweden, and started working as a freelance musician in 2017. In 2019 she received the Mora Municipality Cultural Scholarship. In 2023 Hiroko was awarded the G-klaven Dalarnas stupendium. Today Hiroko runs the jazz quartet Neiro, and is part of the Balkan/Gypsy band Tibble Transsibiriska.
A glimpse from a previous concert
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