Miki Aoki

Miki Aoki studied piano at Indiana University and Yale University in the USA before taking her concert examination at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. Since her debut at London’s Royal Festival Hall at the age of 12, pianist Miki Aoki has performed at numerous venues and music festivals all over the world, including the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Beaulieu-sur-la-Mer Festival (France), the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (USA), the Tembi Festival (Indonesia) and the International Classical Music Festival (Myanmar). The artists with whom she works regularly include Pierre Amoyal, Francois Salque, Andreas Brantelid, the Kuss Quartet and the Ariel Quartet.

Miki Aoki has to date released two CDs of works by Zoltán Kodályi, Anatoli Liadow, Alexander Glazunov, Felix Blumenfeld and Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov exclusively on the Hänssler Profil Medien label. Miki Aoki has an excellent reputation as a highly versatile pianist and musician. She is therefore in frequent demand not only as a soloist or chamber music partner but also as a teacher and piano accompanist. Miki Aoki lectured at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (Austria), the Stony Brook University (New York) and was a staff pianist at Juilliard. Since 2022, she is Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Since 2012, she has been a piano accompanist at Kronberg Academy.