Mayuko (May) Miyamoto

DMA Student, Solo Piano
Office: TC 330
Email: mmiyamot@uwo.ca

Biography

Mayuko (May) Miyamoto is a Taiwanese-Japanese pianist. She graduated from Toho Gakuen School of Music and its Graduate School (Master's program), and earned a Virtuoso Diploma from the Escuela Superior Musical Arts in Spain. She is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts at Western University on a four-year full scholarship. She has studied with Leonel Morales, Pascal Nemirovski, and Stéphan Sylvestre.

Her competition successes include the Absolute Gold Award at the 5th WPTA Finland International Piano Competition, which included a scholarship for short-term study in Weimar, Germany; the Highest Prize at the 15th Concorso Musicale Città di Filadelfia (Italy); Second Prize and the Russian Modern Music Award at the 13th Tokyo Piano Competition; and the Silver Award and Scholarship Prize at the 2nd Singapore International Music Competition. She also took First Prize at the Grand Prize Virtuoso Oxford International Music Competition 2024 and the Grand Prize at the 15th Italia Concorso, organized by the Japan-Italy Association.

She also runs an online platform offering lessons in piano, violin, and composition with instructors from leading Japanese conservatories, available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese (ivymusicjapan.com). She welcomes invitations for performances and lessons.