Haruna Miyake

Haruna Miyake (三宅 榛名 Miyake Haruna, born 20 September 1942 in Tokyo) is a Japanese pianist and composer who also uses the name Haruna Shibata. She was born in Tokyo and studied music there, making her debut as a pianist at age 14 playing Mozart with the Tokyo Symphony orchestra. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, and afterward worked as a pianist and composer, touring in the United States. She often collaborates with pianist and composer Yuji Takahashi.^[1] Her composition Poem for String Orchestra received the Edward Benjamin Award.^[2]

Works

Miyake combines Japanese and Western idiom, and often uses traditional Japanese instruments in her compositions. Selected works include:

• Why Not, My Baby? for soprano, piano and trumpet
• Shiyoku
• Piano Concerto
• Fantasy for Milky Way Railroad
• Phantom of a Flower^[3]

References

1. Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
2. "Cristin Wildbolz". Retrieved 11 January 2011.
3. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 11 January 2011.