First, just inside the festival gate, the audience packs the Harbor Stage for Hiromi. Her light-to-squeaky onstage voice belies her huge piano sound and technique, applied full-bore to longtime warhorses "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" and "I Got Rhythm." Hiromi's stride-style left hand pumps rhythm to support the fabulous speed and articulation of her right. And, with her electronic keyboard and guitarist John Shannon in her band, she's got fusion in her arsenal, too. She calls her group Sonic Bloom. Photo: Wiqan Ang
On the main stage, Michel Camilo is a Newport veteran. After Hiromi attended his Master classes at Berklee College of Music in Boston, the two performed duo piano concerts in Japan. Camilo is the current Jazz Creative Chair with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He and the DSO have performed Camilo's first piano concerto and will stage the American premiere of his second in February 2011, with Leonard Slatkin conducting. In other words, Michel Camilo operates at the top of the musical world and without borders.
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