Jazz up Valentine's with award-winning Japanese international jazz pianist and composer Ayako Shirasaki. A regular performer at many of New York City's jazz clubs, Shirasaki brings her unique blend of class, sass and pizzazz to Houston for the first time. Whether playing an original or a familiar standard, Shirasaki infuses the piano with an emotional, organic quality that has led her to become a three-time finalist in the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and to be featured on the stage of Laeiszhalle.