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 Berklee College of Music, Boston Ballet, Boston Conservatory, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She is also the founder of the BackBay Music Academy, and is a co-founder of duo Q’inti with pianist Hwaen Ch’uqi.  

Dr. Okumura holds a B. 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.  

Her media appearance includes radios and documentaries of Russia, Uk, Taiwan, Netherlands, New England, and New York. 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.