Shigeru Miyazaki

Conductor and composer both, Shigeru Miyazaki brought his own Two Pieces to Bulgaria Hall in October 2015, in a Sofia Philharmonic programme that also held music by Chieko Kutsuzawa and operatic repertory. He shared the podium that evening with Nayden Todorov. Miyazaki belongs to the Japan Society for Contemporary Music, the Japan Federation of Composers and the Japanese Art Song Society. He took first prize in the composition division of the 44th Japan Music Competition and the 31st Takei Prize awarded by the publisher Gendai Guitar, and from 2000 he gave ten yearly concerts devoted to his own works. Alongside composing he arranges, writes criticism and appears as a pianist in his own lecture-concert series.