Takayoshi Ohmura - Distant Thunder

Ohmura Takayoshi (大村孝佳) 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 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.He is one of the few guitarist that uses scalloped fretboard guitar