Haruna Miyake
{{short description|Japanese pianist and composer (born 1942)}}
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| birth_date = 1942
| birth_place = Tokyo
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| occupation = pianist, composer
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{{Nihongo|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.{{cite book |title=A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900|author=Dees, Pamela Youngdahl|year=2004}} Her composition Poem for String Orchestra received the Edward Benjamin Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.cristinwildbolz.nl/K9%20one|title=Cristin Wildbolz|accessdate=11 January 2011|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174418/http://www.cristinwildbolz.nl/K9%20one|url-status=dead}}
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{{cite book|last1=Sadie|first1=Julie Anne|last2=Samuel|first2=Rhian|title=The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA328|year=1994|publisher=W.W. Norton|isbn=978-0-393-03487-5|page=328}}
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Category:20th-century Japanese classical composers
Category:20th-century Japanese classical pianists
Category:20th-century Japanese educators
Category:20th-century Japanese women composers
Category:20th-century women educators
Category:20th-century Japanese women pianists
Category:21st-century Japanese classical composers
Category:21st-century Japanese classical pianists
Category:21st-century Japanese educators
Category:21st-century Japanese women composers
Category:21st-century Japanese women pianists
Category:Concert band composers
Category:Japanese women classical composers
Category:Japanese music educators
Category:Japanese women music educators