Birth name Takuya Hirano Name Taku Hirano Instruments Percussion Role Percussionist | Years active 1996–present Spouse Arthel Neville (m. 2001) | |
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Taku hirano guest artist with trevor lawrence modern drummer festival 2011
Takuya Hirano (平野 琢也, Hirano Takuya) (born October 22, 1973, stylized as Taku Hirano) is a Japanese percussionist and recording artist with the group Tao Of Sound.
Contents
- Taku hirano guest artist with trevor lawrence modern drummer festival 2011
- Taku hirano edge of seventeen percussion solo
- Biography
- Awards
- With Tao Of Sound
- Other artists
- Touring credits
- References
Taku hirano edge of seventeen percussion solo
Biography
Takuya "Taku" Hirano was born in Osaka, and grew up in Fresno, California and Hong Kong. He attended Hong Kong International School and graduated from Roosevelt School of the Arts at Theodore Roosevelt High School (Fresno), where he studied orchestral percussion, jazz, afro-cuban jazz, and salsa music. He then attended Berklee College of Music, studying under Giovanni Hidalgo and Jamey Haddad, graduating in 1995. He has also studied drum set with Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, and in Havana, Cuba with Changuito.
Taku Hirano has toured playing percussion with Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Isaac Hayes, Lindsey Buckingham, John Mayer, A.R. Rahman, Hikaru Utada, and with Cirque du Soleil on Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour.
Taku has recorded with Dr. Dre on 2001, Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston, The Temptations, Hikaru Utada, Stevie Nicks, Josh Groban, Chromeo, Ziggy Marley, Emmanuel Jal, Nelly Furtado and Lionel Richie, in addition to working on major motion picture soundtracks.
As co-founder of the production duo Tao Of Sound, he has worked as a producer and programmer of commercial sound libraries, and remixer for artists such as Kanye West, Kitaro, and The Ahn Trio. Tao of Sound has released four albums under the record label Domo Records: Metro (2010) Ronin- Extended Play (2012), Ronin (2013), and These Times (2016).
Taku is a columnist for Drum! magazine, a contributor for Modern Drummer magazine a drum clinician, and has served as an artist-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University and Berklee College of Music, and teacher at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
Taku was listed in Modern Drummer 's Reader’s Poll 2014, 2013, and 2012, and Drum!'s Drummies awards 2015 Percussionist of the Year (runner up), 2015 Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop Percussionist (runner-up), 2013 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2013 Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop Percussionist (runner-up), 2012 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2012 World Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2011 Studio Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Jazz/Fusion Percussionist (runner-up), 2011 Live Performer (runner-up), 2011 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2010 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year, 2009 Rock/Pop Percussionist of the Year, 2008 Percussionist of the Year (runner-up), 2008 Best Worldbeat Percussionist (runner-up), and 2007 Percussion Rising Star.
Taku was most recently on tour with Bette Midler on her Divine Intervention Tour.
Awards
With Tao Of Sound
Other artists
Touring credits
Taku has been a percussionist on many tours since the late 1990s.