West Wight Arts Association

 

Miyako Machida was born in Japan and studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo. After finishing her study she came to London to study privately with Jeremy Menuhin and entered the Royal Northern College of Music where she studied with Helen Krizos and Benjamin Frith. She has completed a Postgraduate Diploma and a Professional Performance Course and continued her studies with Martin Roscoe whilst she was a Junior Fellow in Accompaniment.

Miyako won the first prize in the 10th Ribble Valley International Piano Competition. Whilst at the RNCM she was awarded the Ryszard Bakst Memorial Prize for Chopin, the William Humphreys Dayas Prize, the Julius Scholarship, the Alan Rawsthorne Award, Dora Gilson Scholarship, Kate Beresford Marr Scholarship, the RJ Forbes Award for Accompaniment Repetiteur Work and bursary scholarships.

She received a scholarship to attend the IMS Prussia Cove.

She has participated in numerous masterclasses with musicians such as Gyorgy Sebok, Dmitri Bashkirov, Stephen Kovacevich, Charles Rosen, Nelson Goerner, Arnold Cohen, Anne Queffelec, Alexander Melnikov, and Jos van Immerseel (fortepiano), and as a chamber musician, with Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernard Greenhouse, Ralph Kirshbaum and Ivry Gitlis.

As a soloist, she has performed Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto with the Baden-Badener Philharmonie and Die Jungen Fürther Streichhölzer in Germany, Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto with the Manchester Beethoven Orchestra, and Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto with the RNCM Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Hansjorg Schellenberger, the former principal oboe player of the Berlin Philharmonic.

During the Henze Festival at the RNCM, she performed the Concertino with the RNCM Wind and Percussion Ensemble and subsequently at the Royal Festival Hall in London. She has been invited to Rydale Festival, Aboyne and Deeside Festival, Ribble Valley International Piano Week, Aberyswyth Music Fest, and Adelaide International Cello Festival. She has appeared at the Royal Festival Hall, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Craxton Studio and Australia House in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Pump Room in Bath and Holywell Music Hall in Oxford. She has also performed for numerous music societies, such as North Fylde Music Society, Chester Music Society.

She is currently a staff pianist at the RNCM as well as teaching at the Junior RNCM.