Born in Tokyo, Japan, Jun began studying piano,
composition, and improvisation at the age of five. His composition
“Sonatine” for solo guitar was published when he was 14. While in his native
country, his teachers included one of Japan’s leading composers, Akira
Miyoshi, and internationally-known piano and harpsichord player Michio
Kobayashi.
From 1992 to 1995, he studied at the New England Conservatory as a theory
and classical piano major, and received a Master of Music diploma from the
Conservatory.
His recitals in Japan and the U.S. have received enthusiastic responses from
audiences and critics alike. In 1997, he played Rachmaninoff’s Third
Concerto and Brahms’ Second Concerto with the Melrose and Quincy Symphony
Orchestras. His first CD, Ravel’s Piano Works, was released in 1997.
In June 2000, he gave a highly acclaimed New York debut concert at the Weill
Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. He is also known as an interpreter of
contemporary music. He is featured on the 2002 release of American composer
John Baricchi’s CD.
In 1999, his Overture for Orchestra was performed in Massachusetts. His Jazz
Piano Concerto was performed in 2001 by the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, with
himself as soloist. His original CD “Jun Toguchi Works 1990-2000” was
released in May 2002. His opera "The White Fox" has been performed in
Ibaragi and Tokyo (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) in 2003
and 2007. The libretto was written by Tenshin Okakura in the1910s. Toguchi's
piano CD "Chopin's 24 Etudes" was released in 2008.
He is well-versed in the musical language of jazz as well as that of the classical repertoire and he is working as an orchestra arranger as well.
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