Migiwa Miyajima

Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima is an accomplished jazz composer and leader of the passionately swinging 17-piece Miggy Augmented Orchestra, which released its ArtistShare debut Colorful in 2018. Miggy has worked with Slide Hampton and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and is the first Japanese big band leader to headline Birdland (in 2017) since the great Toshiko Akiyoshi in 2003. She was one of 60 inaugural recipients of the Jerome Foundation’s Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships as well as a 2015 finalist for the BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize. In 2018 she co-founded the New York Jazz Composers’ Mosaic, producing events that connect cultures from around the world.