大村孝佳

Takayoshi Ohmura (大村孝佳, Ōmura Takayoshi) (born December 26, 1983) is a Japanese musician and songwriter. Born in Osaka, his first instrument was the piano, which he began playing when he was three years old. 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 had developed an interest in western hard rock and heavy metal music and devoted himself into it.Ohmura attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in 2002 at the MI Japan Osaka school for two years. He also met and played with Vitalij Kuprij, and recorded the CD "Nowhere To Go" with Richie Kotzen, Mark Boals and Doogie White.Ohmura 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 either been a member of or performed with among others, Taiwanese pop singer A-Mei, Japanese singer Liv Moon (Akane Liv), Jazz big band Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (DCPRG), Gloria, C4, Uroboros and Babymetal. He is also an instructor at Musicians Institute Japan (MI Japan).