kiki misumi Kiki Misumi is an extremely versatile musician, performing professionally as a cellist, pianist, and vocalist. She has studied jazz music with such prominent musicians as Ernst Reijseger, Frank Falco, Bob Fenton and Don Thompson. Kiki has toured extensively throughout Europe and North America with Celtic harpist Loreena McKennitt Her collaborations with guitarist/husband Reg Schwager include performances in Amsterdam and Berlin as well as in clubs throughout North America. She is featured on the compact disc release "Mangetsu" with David George, Vista Records CD 4013, a recording which includes her original composition "For the Children".

Japanese-Canadian Kiki has performed with James Cotton, Big Mama Thornton, Sunnyland Slim, Bob Mover and played at the Earth Spirit Festival with Butch Watanabe. Her own group has appeared in concert at the Toronto Downtown duMaurier Jazz Festival as well as having steady engagements at Toronto's Casa Mendoza, Tom Jones and other jazz clubs in the city. She is an active member of the Toronto Fife and Drum Corp, involved in composing and recording much of the material performed by the group.

She appeared with the Jeannette Lambert Quartet on the recordings "Ask Her" on the Rant label and "Songposts" for the Word of Mouth music label, and on a broadcast performance of the song entitled "Count the Days" for MuchMusic, Canada's national music station.

Her performances with Jeannette Lambert also include a concert at McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg, the Boris Brott festival in Dundas, the Rivoli and Capriccio in Toronto, and internationally they have performed in Berlin in Germany, and Jakarta in Indonesia.