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Tomoko Funaki
Bass – Jazz Institute, Advanced Package
2015 is bassist Tomoko Funaki’s fifth year as an SJW faculty member. Since relocating to San Francisco in 2002, she has immersed herself into the San Francisco jazz scene, studying and performing with luminaries including Ray Drummond, Rodney Whitaker, Andrew Speight, Vince Lateano, Mark Levine, Donald “Duck” Bailey, Denise Perrier, and Rufus Reid.
Tomoko was born in Japan into a musical family. Like her mother, a violinist for a symphony orchestra in Japan, Tomoko began as a classical musician studying violin with the Suzuki Method at the age of 4. By age 16, her musical interests broadened and she picked up the flute, her father’s instrument. Tomoko moved to the United States to attend college and lived in New York and then San Francisco, where she continued to perform and expose herself to a broad range of musical genres. It was during this time that she first discovered her passion for jazz and the upright bass.

Chris Potter

Ruth Davies

Taylor Eigsti

Joshua Redman

Lemar Guillary

Anna Butterss

Madeline Eastman

Dena DeRose

Lorca Hart

Dan Zemelman

Joshua White

Michael Mitchell

Max Jaffe

Tomoko Funaki

Steven Lugerner

Marcus Shelby

Richard Sears

Eric Harland

Larry Grenadier

Jim Nadel

Chris Potter

Jimmy Kraft

Lauren Baba

Taylor Eigsti

Joshua Redman

Lemar Guillary

Anna Butterss

Kushal Talele

Tyler Kaneshiro

Valerie Troutt

Roy McCurdy

Madeline Eastman

Dena DeRose

Lorca Hart

Natalie John

Javier Santiago

Dan Zemelman

Ana Barreiro

Joshua White

Michael Mitchell

Max Jaffe

Tomoko Funaki

Steven Lugerner

Marcus Shelby

Ruth Davies

Lauren Baba

Anna Butterss

Adi Meyerson

Marcus Shelby
