About Hana Fujisaki:

Hana Fujisaki is a Chicago-based keyboardist, composer, and music educator. She began her musical journey studying organ and contemporary music at Yamaha Music School in Japan, where she won multiple awards as an organist and composer. She moved to the U.S. to study jazz and Latin music under Pat Coil, Jim Trompeter, and Jeremy Kahn, ultimately earning her M.M. from Northwestern University.

Fujisaki masterfully shifts between disparate musical settings, playing hymns on the pipe-organ in the morning before rocking out on Key-tar at night. Her musical versatility is showcased by the variety of musical projects and theater productions she collaborates with including Chicago Samba, The Fly Honey Show, CoryaYo, Brandon James, Vox Maris, Da$htone, The Phunk Nasty's, Los Perros Cubanos, Rojo Tango, Hitched, and ORiHANA. In addition to her regular appearances in some of Chicago's most prestigious musical venues, she has also toured and performed all over the U.S. In 2024, she participated in Asia tour with the jazz quartet Entre Amigos, traveling 8 different cities in Asia featured in several venues including Blue Note Shanghai. Entre Amigos have released two albums titled "Entre Amigos" in 2024 and "Magpie - The Music of Joe Clark" in 2025. Fujisaki is also a passionate music educator who currently directs a choir and teaches piano and music theory classes at Harold Washington College.

About Marlene Rosenberg:

With a successful and diverse career spanning four decades, Marlene Rosenberg is one of the most talented and multi-faceted bassists on the scene today. Rosenberg has toured internationally with Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson, and Joe Williams and performed with a virtual murderer’s row of top musicians, including Stan Getz, Ed Thigpen, Roy Hargrove, Terri Lyne Carrington and Wallace Roney, to name a few. Based in Chicago, Rosenberg plays regularly with her own ensemble MRQ. She has four albums, including most recently MLK Convergence, which was inspired by the social justice movement and represents a convergence of cultures, generations and gender, featuring pianist Kenny Barron, drummer Lewis Nash, as well as bassist Christian McBride. Marlene collaborates frequently with internationally-acclaimed tap dancers. As a frequently invited guest artist and clinician, she has adjudicated and taught master-classes at universities across the country as well as the International Society of Bassists.