Miyuki Otani, Piano

Biography

The Melrose Free Press wrote after Miyuki Otani’s performance as soloist with the Melrose Symphony that she “…has a marvelous facility…dazzling in its clarity and delicacy.” Audiences and critics alike have hailed her performances for their great “musicality, feeling, and unflagging technique.”

As a winner of the Boston Conservatory’s Concerto Competition, she performed as a soloist with the Boston Conservatory Orchestra at Faneuil Hall. Ms. Otani has also appeared as soloist with the Cape Ann Symphony playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with the Melrose Symphony Orchestra performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

In the Fall of 2003, Ms. Otani was invited by the Fukui Classical Music Association to give a concert at Kazenomori Hall in Japan. In addition, the Kobe Women’s College invited her to serve as a guest speaker. In June 2001, Ms. Otani gave a recital at Harmony Hall in Fukui, Japan at which both the Governor and the Mayor were in attendance.

Born in Japan, Miyuki Otani began playing the piano at the age of three. She is a graduate of the prestigious Tokyo Women’s Christian University where she received a degree in English and American Literature. In 1996, Ms. Otani came to the United States as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar to study at Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she received her Masters degree in Intercultural Communication. Ms. Otani earned her Master of Music degree at the Boston Conservatory where she studied with Jonathan Bass.

Currently, Ms. Otani serves on the piano faculty of Brookline Music School. In addition to her teaching commitments, she keeps an active performance schedule both in the US and Japan.