Takayoshi Ohmura Musical artist

Takayoshi Ohmura (大村孝佳, Ōmura Takayoshi) is a Japanese musician popular as a rock guitarist. He was born on December 26, 1983 in Osaka. He started learning piano at the age of three. By the age of 11 he had started to play acoustic guitar moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17 he was heavily into hard rock/heavy rock of the western-style music and devoted himself into it.He decided to attend Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in 2002 at the MI Japan Osaka school. He learned a lot through his 2 years. He also met and played with Vitalij Kuprij. He also recorded the CD "Nowhere To Go" with Richie Kotzen, Mark Boals and Doogie White.He formed the band Cross Hard in 2005 and released "Eclipse From East" on May 25, 2005. In 2006, along with Cross Hard's bassist, Kaoru, he formed another band named Gloria and released its first mini-album (MOTIF)on March 26, 2008. A second mini-album (Acrobatic road) was released on January 21, 2009. He has played guitar on tour for Marty Friedman and has performed with various artist including Taiwanese pop singer A-Mei, Japanese singer Liv Moon (Akane Liv) and Jazz big band Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (DCPRG) and Babymetal to name a few. He is also a member of the band C4 and an instructor at Musicians Institute Japan (MI Japan).