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}}

References