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The Japanese harpsichordist, Mutsuko Miwa, studied harpsichord with Motoko Nabeshima and Masaaki Suzuki at the Toho-Gakuen University in Tokyo. She also studied with John Whitelaw at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent in Belgium and with Nicolau de Figueiredo in Paris supported by a fellowship from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. She obtained the special prize at the international competition Stift-Melk in Austria. In 2006, she moved to Paris in order to study the harpsichord techniques used in the Baroque Opera with Nicolau de Figueiredo.
Amongst others, Mutsuko Miwa has played with Il Fondamento (Director: Paul Dombrecht), Les Agrements and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur (Director: Jean Tubéry), Orchestra of Flanders Opera (Directors: Roy Goodman, Paul Goodwin), Beethoven Academy, Teatro Municipale in Sao Paulo (Director: Nicolau de Figueiredo), Prima la Musica and with other ensembles. She gave solo recitals at the Utrecht Baroque Festival, with Musica Antiqua in Bruges, at the Bach Festival in Amsterdam, and at the International Music Festival in Friburg, Switzerland.
Mutsuko Miwa served as Lecturer harpsichord at Soai University in Japan (1989-1991); and Guest Professor harpsichord at Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent (1999-2006). Since 1996, she has been an official accompanist at the international competition of Musica Antiqua in Bruges. She was also an official accompanist at the Chimay Baroque Singing Competition in 2000.
Her first solo CD "J.S. Bach Transcriptions" Waon Records) was released in Japan in 2010. It was awarded the highest prize and the excellent recording by the magazine Record Geijutsu' |
