Miu Ishikawa was born in Tokyo, Japan. She began her music studies at the Yamaha Music School, and has studied piano since the age of 5. From 2012 until 2015, Miu studied with Prof. Etsuko Terada, a professor at the Nihon University College of Art Graduate School. Since 2015, she now studies with Prof. Akira Eguchi at the Music High School attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. She has also studied privately with Professor Miku Omine.
At the age of 8, Miu won top honors for her age group at the PTNA Piano Competition of Japan, then won numerous national competitions. In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Miu participated in the Interharmony Music Festival in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany, where she performed solo and chamber music at the winners’ concerts. Her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall was at the age of 13 in 2013 on the Side-by-Side Artist Showcase presented by the Interharmony Music Festival. In 2014, she won the third prize at the Japan Classical Music Competition, and was invited to perform in Taiwan as a winner. In August 2016, she won Fourth Prize at the PTNA Piano Competition against performers as old as 22.
In 2012, Miu performed as a soloist with the Japan Classic Orchestra, playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto, in the Prize Winners’ Concert of the 21st Japan Classic Music competition. She has performed in master classes with Erik T. Tawaststjerna, William Grant Nabore, Emanuel Ax, Piotr Paleczny, Soo-Jung Shin, Mikhail Voskresensky, and Michael Schäfer.
Repertoire
Round I
Haydn Sonata in D major, Hob. XVI: 24
Prokofiev 4 Pieces for Piano, Op. 4, No. 4 Suggestion diabolique
Ravel La Valse
Round II
Scarlatti Sonata in F major, K. 17
Chopin Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 55
Rachmaninoff Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Round III
Beethoven Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37