Tetsuro Hoshii is an award-winning composer and jazz pianist based in New York City. As a composer, his works were performed at Tanglewood, Boston and in important New York venues.

Boston Symphony Orchestra's The Boston Cello Quartet recorded Tetsuro's composition “Waltz of the Black Ants” on their album Pictures, which was released in 2013 and quickly rose to the Top 50 Classical Music Albums on iTunes.

Self-taught in piano and improvisation from the age of four, eventually Hoshii graduated from Senzoku College of Music in Japan, and then graduated from the jazz composition program at Berklee College of Music, where he won the prestigious Wayne Shorter Award. His Tetsuro Hoshii Orchestra performed at the Berklee Performance Center in 2011.

Hoshii's music is a mix of his influences—jazz, classical, film soundtracks, musicals and American roots music. He has written and published his own instruction book, The Adventures of Pinpi and Danda, for piano students from children to adults. In addition, his compositions have been performed by groups such as the New York Symphonic Brass, Decoda in a sold-out Carnegie Hall chamber music series, on Tiziano Bianchi's first solo album Now and Then from 2017, and as part of the Halcyon Chamber Series since 2015.

In 2015, Hoshii started The Doggy Cats, a good-time brass band that performs regularly at Sunny's Bar, one of the most historic bars in New York. The Doggy Cats released their first album, Daikon Pizza, in 2019. The album recieved positive reviews and radio air-play internationally including on NPR's program Fresh Air. They have also been performing at Keyport Music Festival since 2018.

Lately, he is preparing to record his first improvisational solo piano album which will be released in 2023.

Performing and demo recording in 2009

Yuka Deguchi, Vocal

Tetsuro Hoshii, Piano/Compose

Takuma Asada, Guitar

Hajime Suzuki, Bass

Yosuke Nagayama, Drums

Kaze Ni Sewomukeru

Kyo Ni Owakare

Human Dance

by Brooklyn Chamber Nonet (2014)

Dos Allen, flute

Thomas Bergeron, Trumpet

Tetsuro Hoshii, Piano/Compose

Michael Bates, Bass

Angelo Spampinato, Ddrums

Fung Chern Hwei, Violin I

Curtis Stewart, Violin II

Benjamin Von Gutzeit, Viola

Luke Krafka, Cello

Aaron Nevezie, engineering

Prescott Blackler, mixing/mastering

Mike Yach, mastering

Una Strade, videographer/video editing

Lily

Composed by Tetsuro Hoshii

Performing every year since 2014 at Fish Church in Conneticut

Kenneth DeCarlo

John Sheppard

Morris Kainuma

Charles Descarfino

Richard Clymer

Sara Cyrus

James Wetherald

David Van Dyke

Lawrence DiBello

Jeff Caswell

Daniel Haskins

Da Fluffy

by Tetsuro Hoshii

I directed my first film called Da Fluffy, starring Jason Rosenberg. It's a part of the project of Film Force. 3 hours of makeup with YouTube tutorial, 2 hours of shooting, few days of composing music and few months of editing (includes minor injury of my arm from Foley)! This project really saved my quarantine life in May and June of 2020.

Four Crayons

Composed by Tetsuro Hoshii

Performed by Boston Cello Quartet in 2013 in Tanglewood, MA (World Premiere), and

Decoda in Carnegie Hall chamber music series in 2016

Film Force is the unique collaboration of several film directors based in New York, making their own short film, but using exactly the same script. This time, 7 short films by 7 different film directors, but all films have the same script, directed differently.

HERE IS THE REST OF FILM FORCE SHORTS

(It's same dialogue! But direct differently)

Waltz of the Black Ants

Composed by Tetsuro Hoshii

Performed by Boston Cello Quartet

Blaise Dejardin, Cello

Alexandre Lecarme, Cello

Adam Esbensen, Cello

Mihail Jojatu, Cello

"Pictures" released in 2012 by Boston Cello Quartet

Solo Piano Improvisation by

Tetsuro Hoshii

Howdy Cats!

Composed by Tetsuro Hoshii

Performed by The Doggy Cats

Daikon Pizza released in 2019

Trumpet - Aaron Bahr

Trombone - Chris Palmer

Saxphone - Zac Zinger

Piano/Compose - Tetsuro Hoshii

Bass - Michael Bates

Drums - Rob Garcia

The Sleep of Sorrow, Through the Ages

Composed by Tetsuro Hoshii

Performed by Tiziano Bianchi

New York Outdoor Dining

Tetsuro Hoshii, Piano/Compose

Original  music in 2020 inspired by How to with John Wilson

Improvisation

by Tetsuro Hoshii, Aaron Bahr and Adam Armstrong (2023)

The Doggy Cats Performance in 2019

Trumpet - Aaron Bahr

Trombone - Chris Palmer

Saxphone - Zac Zinger

Piano/Compose - Tetsuro Hoshii

Bass - Michael Bates

Drums - Rob Garcia

Solo Piano Improvisation by

Tetsuro Hoshii

US OPEN CEREMONY 2023

John Sheppard and my musical arrangement "America the Beautiful" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was performed at the US OPEN final ceremony by Will Liverman, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra on September 10th.