Yumie Miyatake (maiden name:Yoshikawa) is a pianist, composer, arranger, and a sought-after
piano teacher.
Ms. Miyatake specializes in teaching young students as well as all beginners, including older adult beginners.
Her preschool and kindergarten students are often entering festivals and competitions for elementary and middle school students.
Her students have received much recognition at local and state level competitions, including Nathaniel Patch Piano Competition, Lexington Bach Contest, and the KMTA Keyboard Festival as well as the OMTA Sonata & Sonatina
Competition and Baroque Festival and so on.
Album of local and state level competitions
Her students’ performances demonstrate much enthusiasm, imagination , and very solid technical foundation.
Her musical “The Legend of Princess Tatsuta” was recently premiered in Japan. It has received rave reviews by Ikoma Times.
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| Message from her students & Friends |
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| Program of the Musical |
She has studied music composition at Tokyo Muse Academy of Music in Japan.
Her teachers include Noriko Yamamoto (protégé of Toyoaki Matsuura), Keiko Matsumoto, and Dr. Robert J. Haskins at Wilmington College, Dr. Irina Voro at University of Kentucky)
Her unusual experience includes performing as a bar pianist and a rock band keyboardist with professional rock musicians in her 20s.
To convey the passion she feels for modern Japanese music composer to a wider and more diverse audience, her students are performing those modern Japanese composers’ pieces for local and state level festival and competition.
She lives in Oregon since November 1st, 2014
