Midori Arima

Midori Arima was educated at the Central Music School attached to the Moscow Conservatory. She took second prize at the Japanese student music competition, western section, in 1986 and again in 1987, and in 1987 won the silver medal and the Nippon Airways prize at the piano competition of the national association of teachers in Japan; in 1998 she received the Ishikawa Music Academy music award. The Oikawa agency chronology dates her Matsukata Hall recital in Kobe to 1996 and her duo recitals with the violinist Yosuke Kawasaki to 1998. She has appeared at the Aspen music festival and taken part in seminars at the Moscow Conservatory, where she performed Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto in 2000. In 2002 she entered the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney on a scholarship, and studied with M. Nojima and V. Makarov. She was the soloist when the Sofia Philharmonic under Nayden Todorov gave its contribution to the Days of Japanese Culture in Bulgaria, in Sofia on 25 November 2004.