Sumi Tonooka

Under the Surface represents a creative breakthrough for pianist and composer Sumi Tonooka. She made the suite for the Alchemy Sound Project, inspired by the underground network that nourishes trees, and serves as a sustaining model.

Pianist Sumi Tonooka and the presenting organization Ars Nova Workshop are among The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage’s 2023 grantees, the organization announced today.

When she was awarded a New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America in 2019, pianist/composer Sumi Tonooka found herself inspired by the root systems…

September presented jazz enthusiasts in Philadelphia with a full calendar, with so many events in planetary orbit around the sun that was John Coltrane's…