MEGTARO
feat. Datou 張維智(bass)

MEGTARO is an instrumental band from Tokyo, Japan since 2015. The members are Megumi Otani (piano) and Kentaro Nakayama (drums). Basic format is piano and drums DUO style. It performs member’s original songs which are colorful, emotional, and peaceful with using jazz vocabulary and their own way to create ensemble.
MEGTARO has a wide variety of projects such as piano-drums DUO, piano trio, trio with sax, vocal and tap dance, quartet and quintet. Moreover, the DUO has a debut album “Arise” released in June 2018. It describes nature, member’s experience and thought with the hope that people will become more peaceful when you listen to Arise.
Currently MEGTARO is holding concerts in Tokyo once or twice a month and is touring to Hokkaido and Osaka aria once a year. In February 2020, there will be a 2nd Album “ Newselves” pre-release tour in Taiwan.
The release of Newselves in Japan is scheduled for June 2020.

Megumi Otani / Pianist, Keyboardist, Composer, Arranger

Megumi Otani is a professional pianist, composer and arranger. She started to play piano and Electone in YAMAHA when she was 3 years old, and started to compose when she was 6 years old. She became a winner of “Japan Junior Electone Competition 2004” when she was the age of 15. Since then, she started her career as a professional musician.
In 2008, she entered Tokyo College of Music. During this time, she studied compositions for small group jazz, big band jazz, movie and advertisement.
After she graduated, her major style became jazz. Currently she has her own band, called “MEGTARO“, since 2015. The members of this group are Megumi Otani (piano) and Kentaro Nakayama (drums). Basically it is piano and drums duo style. It performs member’s original songs which are colorful, emotional, and peaceful with using jazz vocabulary and their own way to create ensemble. 1st. Album “Arise” is released in June 2018.
In addition, her style makes her a versatile sideman such as a jazz pianist, a pop, R&B, gospel keyboardist, a recording musician, a composer and an arranger of TV program and advertisement songs, and many others.