Peter Miyamoto holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music (B.M.), Yale University (M.M. and A.D.), Michigan State University (D.M.A.), and the Royal Academy of Music (A.D.) in London. His teachers have included Maria Curcio-Diamand, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Aube Tzerko, and Ralph Votapek. He has captured top prizes in numerous competitions including the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artist Award, the American Pianist Association National Fellowship Competition, the D'Angelo International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the San Francisco Symphony Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Competition.

Peter has already enjoyed a brilliant international career, performing to great acclaim in Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, China, and Japan, as well as in Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. He has performed with many orchestras including the Rochester Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, and the Chautauqua Symphony, appearing with conductors Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Lawrence Leighton-Smith, William Henry Curry, James Ogle, and Kirk Trevor.

He has given lectures and masterclasses through the Irving S. Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the American Pianists Association, and Young Audiences of America, and has given masterclasses at major music schools including Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Washington, and the University of Missouri, among many others. Recently, he was invited to teach at the Xi'an and Guangzhou Conservatories in Mainland China.

As a collaborative and chamber musician, Peter continues to perform with musicians from around the world. He is a former member of both the August and Beaumont Trios. He was a founding member of the Quadrivium Players, the resident chamber group of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, a group dedicated to building a new generation of classical music lovers through innovative programs linking classical music with other art forms such as literature, painting, sculpture, and philosophy.

He served on the faculty of Michigan State University and California Institute of the Arts. His latest CD, the Chopin Ballades and Fantasies, has been released by the Blue-Griffin Label.

Chopin: Ballades and Fantasies

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