Taro Koike

Taro was born in Tokyo, started to play the guitar at 14 years old. Afterwards he studied flamenco guitar with Masashi Yamazaki and Kohei Komori about four years, then switched his main instruments to 6-string fretless bass.In 2005 he went to Berklee College of Music to study composition, film scoring and bass performance with professor Thomas McGah, Arnold Friedman, Joseph Smith, Fernando Huergo, Yumiko Matsuoka, George Monseur, Thomas Hojnacki, Rick Kress, Kris Adams, Jonathan Klein, Bill Elliott, David Howard, Jim Stinnett and other splendid teachers.Two years later he came back home and now started to do something new. He also writes to and plays at a progressive rock trio called Jaywalkers.http://www.myspace.com/jaywalkersakiotaromasato