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
ピ ア ニ ス ト の 作 曲 家 の 先 生
____________________________________________________________________
Michael Schelle and Miho Sasaki
_______________________________________________________
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
_______________________________________________________
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
________________________________________________________________________
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
____________________________________________________________________
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)
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
TEACHING
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
MIHO SASAKI with FUMIO