Megumi Masaki

B. Mus. (Hon.), M. Mus. (W. Ontario), R.C.M., P.G.A. Dip., A.R.C.M.

piano

Phone: 204-727-7343

Email: masakim@brandonu.ca

Award-winning pianist Megumi Masaki has established herself as an international artist renowned for her warmth and rapport with audiences and her superb musicianship. Her multi-faceted career as acclaimed soloist, chamber musician, champion of Contemporary music and pedagogue has taken her across Canada, the USA, Europe and Asia. In 2006, she made her film debut with musical performances in the CBC Documentary Film “Appassionata: Eckhardt-Gramatté. Recently, she was selected as Artistic Director of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition. In 2005, she founded the International Virtuosi Concert Series in Frankfurt Germany. In 1999 Masaki co-founded the annual Waterford Summer Music Festival in Utah where she acts as artistic co-director, conductor, pianist and coach. She is the recipient of numerous scholarships, awards and grants from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Government, Canada Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and British Council. Masaki was awarded the Willi-Daume Prize from the Deutsches Olympisches Institut and German National Olympic Committee for her project “Music and the Olympic Games”. Masaki is presently Associate Professor of Piano at Brandon University, School of Music where she coaches solo and collaborative pianists and teaches undergraduate and graduate piano pedagogy

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