MIHO SASAKI    pianist / composer / teacher



                   


MIHO SASAKI

From Chiba City, Japan, pianist Miho Sasaki came to the United States in 2000 to study English and music at Indiana University. Following additional language studies and collegiate course work in Boston, she continued her music studies in the US, earning an M.M. from Butler University's School of Music in Indianapolis. Ms. Sasaki has studied piano with Hiromi Iwadate (Japan), Van Cliburn Competition Silver Medalist Panayis Lyras, Eugenio Urrutia-Borlando, Andrew Russo of the Juilliard School, and music composition with Michael Schelle,  Paul Chihara (UCLA), Elliott Schwartz (Maine) and Elvis Costello.

Ms. Sasaki recently returned from a two-week concert tour of China as soloist with the South Shore Orchestra (Chicago) for Michael Schelle’s Wright Flight piano concerto, a work that is recorded on Albany Records (Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra). Ms. Sasaki has since also performed the work with the Albuquerque Youth Orchestra and the Illinois Wesleyan Civic Orchestra in 2011 and this season with the District 99 Orchestra  of Chicago (March) and the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony Orchestra in May 2012.


In 2010 Ms. Sasaki was featured guest artist for a recital of new piano music at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Nagoya, Japan. Ms. Sasaki’s own original compositions have been performed by the American Pianists Association, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra (NYC), the JCFA Composers Orchestra, the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society, Tokyo flutist Hiroko Senoo, and featured during the 2008 Finger Lakes Summer Chamber Music Festival in upstate New York. She is currently working on new commissions from the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra, pianist Anna Briscoe and  The Generous Ensemble  (New York City).


As a teacher Ms. Sasaki maintains a private studio and is on the faculty of the Butler Community Arts School and the innovative university Little Mozart program for young musicians.



        




           MIHO SASAKI with a few of her 2011 Little Mozart students . . . 


             



           E-MAIL:   sasakismiho55@aol.com




               


        ア ニ ス ト の 作 曲 家 の 先 生

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         Michael Schelle and Miho Sasaki

             



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            VOICING THE NEW $135,000 STEINWAYS AT THE NEW $176,000,000
            CARMEL, INDIANA PALLADIUM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,
            WHICH OPENED IN JANUARY 2011


              





              


       

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        RECENT PERFORMANCES

        

            BLOOMINGTON (Illinois) CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS : April 2011

             


          CLEVELAND CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Albuquerque, NM: Albuquerque Youth Orchestra,             Sayra Siverson, conductor.   March 2011

             



             



           


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MIHO SASAKI performing Michael Schelle's WRIGHT FLIGHT piano concerto (2002) : 2 week concert         tour of CHINA (6 cities : 8 concerts - Shanghai, Beijing, Ningbo, Hangzhou, etc.) w/ the South Shore Orchestra (Chicago) January 2010.  

       see many more CHINA pictures on the  NEWS  page

            


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            Pianist MIHO SASAKI on the streets of Hollywood, Los Angeles
            after concert performances in Southern California : March 2011


           

               


            MIHO SASAKI with film composer CHRISTOPHER YOUNG  (in Michael Schelle's studio)

              



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       As a concerto program encore, Miho Sasaki often performs

       Praeludium IX  (Bacchanalia)   from Michael Schelle's STRAIGHT, NO LITHIUM (2010)



                          


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               TEACHING

              


                           


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         Peace-loving pianist, composer Miho Sasaki is happy to be in the US (since 2000), but was paralyzed
         with sadness and disbelief at the natural disasters taking place in her homeland in March 2011 . . .

                   

                  JAPAN  :  9.1 EARTHQUAKE and TSUNAMI :  11 MARCH 2011

                   MARCH 2011 : BBC ASIA PACIFIC : JAPAN EARTHQUAKE / TSUNAMI

                   35 FOOT HIGH JAPAN TSUMANI CRASHES OVER THE SEA WALL



            


                  


                    


               

                                        JAPAN EARTHQUAKE ANIMAL RESCUE AND SUPPORT


                                




                            



                     
     
                                      MIHO SASAKI with FUMIO