平井み帆

After completing undergraduate studies in piano at Toho Gakuen College of Music, Miho Hirai continued her studies as a research student at that university and then completed studies in harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Holland. She studied with Chiyoko Arita and Jacques Ogg. She appeared in the Festival of Early Music Utrecht while she was still a student and has since pursued an active performing career. Specializing in seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian music, since 2003 she has given a concert series entitled ‘I cambiamenti della musica barocca italiana’ with the recorder player Mitsuko Ota. She gave a recital, most of the program of which was devoted to the works of Domenico Scarlatti, in Aranjuez as part of a Japan-Spain exchange initiative. Her CDs include ‘Sognando l’Italia’ Vols. I, II and III, each of which was selected as editor’s choice (tokusenban) by the prestigious music magazine Record Geijutsu, ‘Buxtehude: Sonatas Op.1&2 for Violin, Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord’, which won the Agency for Cultural Affairs Art Festival Prize. At present she is a part-time lecturer at Aichi University of the Arts, and a harpsichord teacher for the Toyama Early Music Society. She also gives masterclasses all over Japan on topics such as basso continuo, Baroque dance, and Baroque music history and performance to showcase the beauty of Baroque music and the harpsichord.
http://hirai-miho.music.coocan.jp/

[as of April 2024]