Japanese keyboardist Hiromi Uehara and her group Sonicbloom will perform with guitarist David Fiuczynski at the Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness in San Francisco’s War Memorial Veterans Building, on Friday, June 19, at 8 p.m.

Uehara first mesmerized the jazz community with her 2003 album “Another Mind,” co-produced by piano legend Ahmad Jamal, which went gold in Japan. Since then she has combined with bassist Tony Grey and drummer Martin Valihora to create a dynamic electro-acoustic sound as the group Sonicbloom.

In 2008, Uehara and Sonicbloom joined with the wildly inventive Fiuczynski to release her fifth CD, “Beyond Standard.”

Born in Shizuoka in 1979, Uehara took her first piano lessons at age six. She enrolled in the Yamaha School of Music, and by age 12, she was performing in public, high-profile orchestras such as the Czech Philharmonic. Uehara spent two years studying law in Tokyo before making music her full-time occupation. In 1999, she came to America to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Uehara said previously, “I always wanted to come to the states. There are so many people here who want to achieve dreams. The level of musicians is so high, and jazz originated here. I really wanted to feel it.”

Uehara’s time at Berklee expanded the way she looked at music, “Some people dig jazz, some people dig classical music, some people dig rock. Everyone is so concerned about who they like. They always say, ‘This guy is the best,’ ‘No, this guy is the best.’ But I think everyone is great. I really don’t have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.”

This openness to musical variety has allowed her to draw inspiration from all genres to create her own unique blend of music.
“I don’t want to put a name on my music,” she said. “Other people can put a name on what I do. It’s just the union of what I’ve been listening to and what I’ve been learning. It has some elements of classical music, it has some rock, it has some jazz, but I don’t want to give it a name.”

She has continued to catch the ears of piano masters, and her latest release, “Duet,” is a collaboration with Chick Corea that the JazzTimes writes, “heralds the true arrival of a gifted young artist.”

Uehara’s performance on June 19 is part of SFJazz’s 10th Anniversary Spring Season. Tickets are $20-60 and can be purchased online at sfjazz.org.