Instrument: Piano And Accompanist (Classical, Ear Training, Music Theory)
Level: Beginner - Professional
Cost: $110/hr
Bio: Hailed as a “magician of the piano” by the world-renowned pianist and judge Hiroko Nakamura, Dr.Okumura is an active recitalist and chamber musician who has performed live and on broadcasts throughout the US, Europe and Asia. She routinely performs domestically and abroad alongside members of both Milwaukee and Chicago Symphony Orchestras as well as with faculty of Northwestern University. She is currently a pianist for the Boston Ballet, Boston Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music. She became a faculty at Harvard University and an Affiliated Artist at MIT in 2023. She is the founder of the BackBay-Music-Academy. Dr.Okumura holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music, an MM from Mannes College of Music, and was concurrently enrolled at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and the Eastman School of Music, earning respectively a GPD and a DMA in piano performance. Her teachers include Natalya Antonova (under whom she also served as Teaching Assistant), Pavlina Dokovska, Faina Kofman, and Boris Slutsky. She received ear training instruction from Ludmila Khazan, a teacher of rare talents such as Evgeny Kissin and Boris Slutsky. She is the 1st prize winner of 18 national and international piano competitions including the Harvard University Scholarship Competition, Moulin D’ande International Piano Competition, and the Chopin Foundation Of the United States Competition. She is also prize winner of over 10 international competitions.
Transportation to Instructor: Green, Red, Orange lines (Boston, Back Bay), online lessons offered.