Miwa Hoyano

Miwa Hoyano was born in Saitama (Japan) and began her career as a pianist at the age of four. After completing the under-graduate course for piano performance in Tokyo College of Music, she was admitted to the prestigious solo class of Prof. Bernd Goetzke at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media and got Konzertexamen.

Miwa performed extensively throughout Japan,Europe,USA and southeast Asian countries both as a soloist and as chamber musician.She’s a guest at music festivals such as the Ticino Musica Music Festival in Switzerland, the Musica Riva Festival in Italy, the NDR Musiktag Hannover, BMW Welt Klassik & Lounge in the Steinway Lounge Munich in Germany, the Osaka Classic Festival, and the Classic Festival Hiroshima in Japan. 

Miwa won various competitions, among others the Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competition in Sicily in 2014. Marcello Abbado honoured her with the words: "A fantastic pianist. She plays with the greatest passion and wonderful atmosphere".

As a result of this prize, she made her debut performance in Carnegie Hall in New York which was praised as “A really nice […] and thoroughly valid interpretation. Great performance”(SoundWordSight Arts Magazine, May 2015). Besides, she made her debut performance in the Concertgebouw in The Netherlands,which was broadcast by Dutch Radio4.