本間浩之　Hiroyuki Homma(Guitar)

１２歳でギターを始め、明治大学入学と同時に活動を始める。９７年奨学金を得て、バークリ

ー音楽院で学ぶため渡米。

 

卒業後アーティストビザ取得。ニューヨークを拠点に活動を開始。R&Bの中心のクラブであるAshford Simson’s Sugar Bar, The Club Groove, Cafe Wha? のレギュラーギタリストに定着する。

 

またグラミー賞アーティストでR&Bを代表するコーラスグループ・The Manhattans、またグラミー賞アーティストであり、ゴスペル界の重鎮であるDonnie MclurkinやCece Winans、モータウンにはなくてはならないコンポーザー・Ashford & SimpsonのValerie Simpson, K Michelle, Cheryl Pepsi Riley, Allison Williams, Kim Davis (Chic)など様々なアーティストのサポートも務める。

 

ニューヨーク、ブルックリンにある公立芸術中学校、M.S 51 William Alexander, プライベート音

楽学校、Brooklyn Music Houseで講師も勤め、多数の生徒をマンハッタンにある最難関芸術高校、ラガーディア芸術高校、Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Artsに多数輩出し、高い評価を受ける。

 

２０２０年３月、２３年にわたるアメリカの音楽生活を終え、活動拠点を東京にする。

 

英語での指導も可能です。

 

He started playing guitar at the age of 12 and started playing the guitar as soon as he entered Meiji University, and in 1997 he received a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music.

 

After graduating, he obtained an artist's visa and started his career in New York City.

He became a regular guitarist at the main R&B clubs such as Ashford Simson's Sugar Bar, The Club Groove and Cafe Wha?

 

He has supported a variety of artists, The Manhattans, a Grammy Award winning R&B chorus group, and Grammy Award winning artists such as gospel heavyweights Donnie Mclurkin and Cece Winans, as well as composers such as Ashford & Co. including Simpson's Valerie Simpson, K Michelle, Cheryl Pepsi Riley, Allison Williams and Kim Davis (Chic).

 

He has also taught at M.S 51 William Alexander, a private music school and Brooklyn Music House, a public arts middle school in Brooklyn, New York.

 

He has had a number of highly acclaimed students enrolled at Manhattan's most challenging high school for the arts, LaGuardia High School of the Arts and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

 

In March 2020, after 23 years in the United States, he moved to Tokyo, Japan.

 

Language: Japanese, English