Welcome to Tomona Miyazaki’s Official Website

Video (c) Kentaro Igarashi, in Tokyo 2022

Tomona Miyazaki was born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from the Department of Instrumental Music, Faculty of Music at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Geidai) in 2000, and entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory the same year (class of Professor Valery Kastelsky). In 2003 she completed her post-graduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory with honors (class of Professor Sergei Dorensky).

Tomona has acquired extensive experience under the supervision of M. Harimoto, H. Czerny-Stefanska, Valery V. Kastelsky, Sergei L. Dorensky, and Ada M. Traub. After graduating from the conservatory, she continued her studies with Ada M. Traub, who mentored many of today’s foremost pianists including Lilya Zilberstein and Nikolai Tokarev, pursuing the authentic “Russian Pianism” tradition and mastering its pedagogical essence.

In 2004 she was awarded 1st prize among piano soloists at the International Competition “Music without Limits” in Lithuania. From 1996 to the present, she has performed at various concerts held in Japan as well as in Russia, Austria, France, Lithuania, Mexico, Spain, Tajikistan, the United States, and Uzbekistan. Tomona has performed with many orchestras including the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Nara Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra under Pavel Kogan.

In 2013, she was invited to the Novosibirsk Arts Festival, and in 2014 became the first Japanese musician invited to the Arctic Circle Music Festival, where she performed in the northernmost city on the Eurasian continent to great acclaim.

In recent years, her work has transcended the boundaries of classical music. She has engaged in diverse projects including sessions with ethnic fusion musicians, a groundbreaking international project based on the Japanese classic “The Tale of the Heike,” and the “Children’s Sakura Project,” which uses music and art as tools for connecting children around the world.

Since her student days, alongside her performance career, she has pursued research on synesthesia and the relationships between music and psychology, and music and the body. She joined a development team working on music therapy using Metratron, a cutting-edge Russian non-linear diagnostic device that was utilized by the Russian team during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. As a team member, she has actively participated in field tests in Antarctica, the Arctic, Argentina’s RUTA-40 project, and Peru.

Since 2005, she has contributed to the Shikoku Shimbun column “Oshaberi Chikyū Café” (Chatting at the Earth Café). In 2013, she published her first book, Street Museum: The Hidden Stories of Moscow’s Monuments” (co-authored, Gunzosha). In May 2020, she translated and published “Tchaikovsky: The Path His Soul Walked” by Galina S. Shizko, focusing on Tchaikovsky’s worldview and religious perspectives (Kindle edition).

She also composes music, including the piano collection “Shikoku 88 Sacred Places Pilgrimage Journey,” “White Horizon,” the orchestral work “Setouchi Fantasy,” and “PER ASPERA AD ASTRA.”

In 2025, her composition “PER ASPERA AD ASTRA” was performed by the Yaroslavl Governor’s Academic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under conductor Vasily Valitov at the International Conference in Memory of Professor Vladimir Nesterov: “Quantum Medicine Metratron – Technology Connecting Present and Future,” receiving enthusiastic acclaim.

She became the Cultural Ambassador in Japan for the Nadezhda von Meck Memorial International Charity Foundation (chaired by a descendant of P. Tchaikovsky) in 2019. Since 2022, she has served as a board member of the Japan-Russia Tchaikovsky-von Meck Association and as Director of Metratron Music at IPP Japan, which utilizes the advanced non-linear diagnostic device Metratron.

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2025 Kagawa Prefecture Arts and Culture Award
2025 Takamatsu City Cultural Encouragement Award

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